Olam Agri to onboard 5,000 small-scale farmers in Kwara State under a new soybean supply initiative. • Partnership with IDH and Arzikin Noma offers credit, mechanization, and training to boost local ...

• Somalia inaugurates its first stock exchange, the National Securities Exchange of Somalia (NSES), in Mogadishu. • NSES will start trading in early 2026, focusing on stocks and sukuk, with support ...

Master Plastics receives undisclosed funding from Nedbank and Investec to expand sustainable packaging production. • Metier Capital Growth Fund III replaces Fund II in ownership shift, signaling a new ...

Key Highlights • Ivory Coast ends TSDAR, a petroleum tax introduced in 2018 to reduce SIR’s debt. • Government to redirect two-thirds of revenue to electricity sector via new tax starting July 1. • ...

Sri Lankan textile group, Star Garments, inaugurates its first factory in Africa with an anticipated 4,520 jobs by 2030. • This $15 million project, backed by global lingerie provider Komar and ...

Kenya allocates $27 million to renovate 19 tea factories as part of sector reforms. • Producers can now sell tea directly on international markets, bypassing auctions. • Government targets major ...

Ghana requires approximately $6 billion in funding to implement comprehensive flood prevention and control measures. • Flooding annually impacts an average of 45,000 people in the country, according ...

Nigeria plans to establish a real-time tracking system for all exported crude oil consignments to curb the losses Nigerian authorities move to implement mandatory registration of all crude oil ...

Laurent Gbagbo’s PPA-CI and Tidjane Thiam’s PDCI have joined forces to challenge what they call a rigged Ivorian presidential election process. Both leaders remain banned from the electoral list.

African agriculture still faces barriers to food self-sufficiency. As mechanization drove the Industrial Revolution, digital technology now offers transformative potential in the Fourth Industrial ...

(AfDB)-Kenya and Senegal have claimed the top spots in the African Development Bank’s 2024 Electricity Regulatory Index (ERI), demonstrating exceptional progress in power sector governance and ...

West Africa’s regional exchange is exploring a shift from T+3 to same-day settlement Global markets are already adopting faster cycles like T+1 and T+0 Experts say the move could raise efficiency but ...