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© Qatar Airways wants to make Kigali “the hub of Central Africa”, according to its cargo director Guillaume Halleux

‘hub of Central Africa’

Qatar Airways boosting cargo business in Africa through Rwanda With the help of RwandAir and Africa Global Logistics (formerly Bolloré Africa Logistics), Qatar Airways plans to strengthen its cargo business on the...

top tech

The 20 future champions of African tech: Winners, analysis…our exclusive investigation Fintech, logistics, e-commerce… Which startups from across the African continent are the main investors betting on? After our investigation into such ...
© An electric car is charged at a roadside EV charge point, London, October 19, 2021. REUTERS

Battery Metals

Premium badgeBotswana: Giyani to seek up to $300m for manganese mine at K. Hill Canada-listed junior miner Giyani will seek to raise between $280m and $300m for its manganese project at K. Hill in Botswana, CEO Danny Keating tells...
© Environmental activists hold a bag of coal with the euro logo during a protest in Brussels October 23, 2014. REUTERS

step back?

Premium badgeNigeria looks to coal for money and energy despite net zero commitments The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Nigeria’s federal agency in charge of privatising public enterprises and liberalising key economic sectors, pu...

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© Tanzania is constructing the Central Corridor Standard Gauge Railway. (photo: twitter)

missing links

Premium badgeTanzania’s Standard Gauge Railway: Most advanced, but victim of minor private sector investment Tanzania’s standard gauge railway project – that seeks to open up quicker transport corridors towards the vast hinterland of Burundi, DRC, Rwanda, and...
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, in Paris on 10 November 2021. © Damien Grenon for JA

leverage accelerator

Premium badgeAfDB tackles climate change at annual meeting in Sharm al-Sheikh More than 4,000 people have travelled to Egypt to attend the 58th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and ...
© Eskom technicians perform maintenance in Villiers, South Africa, on May 10, 2023. (Shiraaz MOHAMED / AFP)

Electric shock

Premium badgeSouth Africa prepares for the worst in load shedding It only took one statement to bring South Africa’s Eskom shares into the red. On Thursday, 18 May, Calib Cassim, acting CEO of the publicly-run nation...

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© Tanzania is constructing the Central Corridor Standard Gauge Railway. (photo: twitter)

missing links

Premium badgeTanzania’s Standard Gauge Railway: Most advanced, but victim of minor private sector investment Tanzania’s standard gauge railway project – that seeks to open up quicker transport corridors towards the vast hinterland of Burundi, DRC, Rwanda, and...
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, in Paris on 10 November 2021. © Damien Grenon for JA

leverage accelerator

Premium badgeAfDB tackles climate change at annual meeting in Sharm al-Sheikh More than 4,000 people have travelled to Egypt to attend the 58th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and ...
© Eskom technicians perform maintenance in Villiers, South Africa, on May 10, 2023. (Shiraaz MOHAMED / AFP)

Electric shock

Premium badgeSouth Africa prepares for the worst in load shedding It only took one statement to bring South Africa’s Eskom shares into the red. On Thursday, 18 May, Calib Cassim, acting CEO of the publicly-run nation...

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© Wave has entered the mobile money market by offering free account openings (photo: supplied

fierce competition

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire: Wave ups the game to vie with MTN, Orange, Moov US start-up Wave is expanding its offers through partnerships in the retail and transport sectors, a move that will step up competition with telecom o...
© Chinese and American flags at a US-China strategic and economic dialogue meeting in Beijing, 10 July 2014. NG HAN GUAN/AFP

building resilience

Premium badgeChina-US tensions: What will this cost Africa? The war in Ukraine and the rise in tension between Washington and Beijing have raised fears of another Cold War, marked by the division of the world i...
© A labourer pushes a handcart at the Mercato open-air marketplace in Ketema, district of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 21, 2022. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Digital ROSCAs

Premium badgeEthiopian fintech eQub seeks banking partners for African expansion Ethiopia’s eQub, which provides digital versions of traditional collective savings mechanisms, is looking for banking partners to expand into the rest...
At the 55th session of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). © UNECA.

golden reserves

Premium badgeEconomic Commission: 45 African ministers call for IMF reform First came Covid-19, followed by the war in Ukraine, and escalating climate emergency. Faced with economic challenges, African ministers of finance, p...
© Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion stage a piece of street theatre on a beach during COP27 Water Day, to highlight the fact that fossil fuel “Business as Usual” is leading to climate disasters such as sea level rise, in Cape Town, South Africa, November 14, 2022. REUTERS

‘MATTER OF URGENCY’

Premium badgeSouth Africa to unveil Just Energy Transition framework in weeks, says official South Africa is finalising the implementation framework for the Just Energy Transition (JET) Investment Plan and will reveal the finished product in t...
© Riot police officers lob teargas canisters to disperse supporters of Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga of the Azimio La Umoja (Declaration of Unity) One Kenya Alliance, during protests over cost of living and Kenyan President William Ruto’s government in Kisumu, Kenya May 2, 2023. REUTERS

Financial strains

Premium badgeKenya: Loan sanctions hit civil servants on delayed salaries amid cash crunch Kenya’s civil servants are coping with penalties on personal and student loans as they suffer the impact of statutory deductions, with the government ...