Kenya Nears a Critical Minerals Deal With the US to Process at Home
Kenya is close to a critical minerals deal with the US requiring rare earths processed inside Kenya, not exported raw...
June 20, 2026Africa’s capital markets are deepening fast – from the Johannesburg, Nairobi and Lagos exchanges to a fintech boom banking hundreds of millions of people for the first time. The Rio Times follows the currencies (the rand, naira, cedi and shilling), the banks and IPOs, sovereign debt and the foreign capital arriving on increasingly local terms. We cover it through the same investor lens we bring to Latin America, where the emerging-market playbook is strikingly similar. This hub gathers our Africa markets and investment coverage.
Kenya is close to a critical minerals deal with the US requiring rare earths processed inside Kenya, not exported raw...
June 20, 2026
A last-minute Tongaat Hulett rescue with Robert Gumede's Vision Group and the state IDC has pulled the 134-year-old sugar company...
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Cameroonian billionaire Paul Fokam has launched Africa Diamond Invest, a securities firm in Togo, to tap West Africa's capital markets...
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Africa Intelligence Brief for Friday: from Ghana and Ivory Coast aligning cocoa prices to fifteen nations uniting against illegal fishing...
June 19, 2026
From cocoa to fishing to finance, Africa is moving from price-taker to price-setter, coordinating across borders to keep more of...
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A split-screen week in Africa: a former Nigerian oil minister was cleared in London while Zimbabwe's parliament voted to extend...
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Johann Rupert has crossed $20 billion on the Bloomberg index, the second African after Aliko Dangote, lifted by Richemont and...
June 19, 2026
Egyptian builder Hassan Allam has committed $400 million to a data center, one of the largest private bets yet on...
June 19, 2026
Femi Otedola has raised his First HoldCo stake to 20.42% after a N45 billion ($32.8m) placement, deepening his grip on...
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