
Togo Moves to Open Power Grid as Demand Set to Rise 32%
Togo's cabinet adopted a draft electricity law on Tuesday, 6 October, that would open the grid to private producers and...
October 8, 2026In-depth, primary-source analysis of the global stories that move emerging markets – Africa, Asia, Europe and North America – each decoded through a Latin American and Global South lens. The Rio Times reads the original documents and shows the math. This hub gathers our deep analysis of the world beyond Latin America; for our Latin America long-form work, see the In-Depth section.

Togo's cabinet adopted a draft electricity law on Tuesday, 6 October, that would open the grid to private producers and...
October 8, 2026
Gendarmes in Yaoundé arrested a 43-year-old Nigerian pastor and four followers on 6 October over alleged kidnapping of minors and...
October 8, 2026
São Tomé and Príncipe has run out of petrol and cooking kerosene. The finance minister says a US$17 million import...
October 8, 2026
The Sierra Leone Supreme Court overruled an opposition objection on 7 October and moved ahead with cases on a bill...
October 8, 2026
Egypt's MNT-Halan opened its US$150 million share sale on Wednesday as the Cairo bourse pitches a three-year tax break for...
October 8, 2026
Nigeria's Auditor-General queried about US$184 million in census contracts, including tablets the population agency could not prove were delivered.
October 8, 2026
Former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta has resigned as chair of the opposition coalition's council, ten months before Kenya's August 2027...
October 8, 2026
Ethiopia's parliament approved 22 ministers for Abiy Ahmed's new cabinet on Thursday, with Fitsum Assefa replacing Ahmed Shide as finance...
October 8, 2026
A London trial over two 2019 deaths at Tanzania's North Mara mine opened on 7 October, testing whether a clean-gold...
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