Kenya’s Rail and Port Debt Talks Reshape East African Infrastructure Finance
Kenya restructures $3.5bn Chinese railway loans into yuan while courting UAE capital for ports and rail, signalling a multi-polar infrastructure...
July 15, 2026Eastern Africa – Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda – is the continent’s fastest-integrating bloc, a hub for tech, logistics, ports and a rising consumer class along the Indian Ocean trade routes. The Rio Times tracks the region’s growth, currencies, infrastructure megaprojects, and the contest among China, the Gulf and the West for influence. This hub gathers our daily Eastern Africa coverage through a business and investment lens.
Kenya restructures $3.5bn Chinese railway loans into yuan while courting UAE capital for ports and rail, signalling a multi-polar infrastructure...
July 15, 2026
Ethiopia stock exchange — Ethiopia launched the Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX) in January 2025 with Wegagen Bank as its first...
July 14, 2026
Glee Hotel takeover: Kenya's High Court kept Equity Bank's administrator over Mary Wambui's five-star Nairobi hotel amid a KSh 9.1...
July 14, 2026
Anam's Wake, a Kenyan psychological thriller from Supa Modo director Likarion Wainaina, premieres at Nairobi's Prestige Cinema on July 31,...
July 13, 2026
Air Tanzania, banned from EU skies since 2024, is pointing its Dreamliners east: daily Mumbai flights, Guangzhou and reported Moscow...
July 13, 2026
Alikiba, OkayAfrica’s July Artist of the Month, is turning hit song “Finale” into a bet that Kiswahili can unite East...
July 12, 2026
Minority investors in Tatu City head to Mauritius court next month seeking leave for London arbitration over share dilution claims...
July 11, 2026
Mohammed Dewji plans $275 million for graphite mining and a Zanzibar island resort, targeting $10 billion in MeTL revenue by...
July 11, 2026
Ethiopia exports reached a record $10.7 billion in 2025/26, 114% of target, as coffee earned $3 billion and reforms kept...
July 10, 2026