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Foreign investors staged a sharp comeback in Nigeria’s stock market in 2025, but that momentum has faded this year.With domestic investors still dominant and foreign flows in retreat, FTSE Russell’s frontier-market upgrade faces a test of whether global investors will return.
Zambia’s economy is healthier than the one Hakainde Hichilema inherited in 2021. But debt, poverty and weak household incomes remain. Hichilema’s second term will test whether economic stability can finally translate into prosperity for an average Zambian.
As his popularity slides and inflation bites, Kenya’s president has found new villains: foreign miners and street hawkers. Behind the crackdown lies a leader determined to secure a second term in office.
Africa’s tech sector has produced nine unicorns and billions in funding since 2015, yet no founder has become a dollar billionaire. Industry leaders say the answer lies in the structure of African capital markets.
Africa’s first continent-wide credit rating agency will officially launch on October 7 in Mauritius, the African Union (AU) announced on Tuesday.
Nigeria’s record-breaking NGX rally has hit a rough patch. After topping charts globally and setting new highs, the market is now shedding value as profit-taking drags on—recovering much slower than after its last major sell-off.
Nigeria’s biggest businesses rarely outlive their owners. Some owners are finally learning from the past, but most are still one death away from collapse.
Nigeria is launching an asset managing firm for its solar projects this August. The goal is to fix maintenance gaps and unlock long-term financing for renewable energy projects.
Kenya generates 93% of its electricity from renewables, yet businesses pay up to six times more than African peers. The problem isn’t how power is made, but how it reaches consumers.
Nigeria’s political opposition has vowed to revive Nigeria’s fuel subsidy in a new form. The presidency warns of old fiscal nightmares. Ahead of 2027, petrol prices are once again deciding Nigerian politics.
Africa’s proposed Nigeria to Morocco gas pipeline promises to reshape regional trade and energy security, but its success hinges on financing, political alignment across a dozen countries, and infrastructure that has yet to be built.
Algeria’s Sonatrach is moving into Niger’s Jet A1 fuel market, setting up direct competition with Dangote Refinery and signaling a shift in West Africa’s aviation fuel supply landscape as regional players challenge Nigeria’s growing dominance.
Ghana’s cedi surged over 40% to become 2025’s best performing currency while Nigeria’s naira also rallied. But by July both faced fresh dollar demand, showing how quickly currency gains can unravel once supply shifts.
South Africa has among the world’s highest jobless rates, yet farms, factories and townships now struggle to fill vacancies left by departing migrants—exposing unemployment as a deeper structural problem than immigration alone, insiders say.
Why the next generation of African infrastructure will be built by people who have lived the problem
Africa undoubtedly needs more infrastructure. But it also needs infrastructure that reflects lived experience. The next generation of transformative businesses will not emerge because they imported solutions that worked elsewhere.
As IOCs scale back from Nigeria’s shores, indigenous operators are making a different calculation because their business is centred almost entirely on Nigeria.
The significance of the France deal is therefore not that Morocco is already powering Europe. It is that European countries are beginning to look seriously at North Africa as a potential source of electricity generated from its strong solar and wind resources.
From Afreximbank’s billions to a Nigerian billionaire’s personal cheque, here’s who is really funding Dangote’s refinery and fertiliser empire, and why African money, not foreign banks, is doing the heavy lifting.
For decades, Ethiopia barred foreign banks from its financial sector, reserving the market for domestic institutions. Although recent reforms have opened the door to international lenders, investor interest has remained muted.
The naira has lost half its value since 2023’s float, yet no candidate is promising to reverse it. As Nigeria heads to 2027, the currency that once decided elections has quietly faded from the political debate.
