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Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria will be the first countries to implement a landmark digital trade solution and accelerate intra-African commerce under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat has announced that Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria will be the first countries to lead the implementation of the Africa Digital […]
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Weekly Intelligence Briefing for Investors, Executives, and Decision-Makers Nairobi hosted the most consequential Africa-Europe diplomatic gathering in a decade this week, as 30 heads of state joined France’s Macron to push for a fundamental rethink of how global capital prices African risk. At the same time, Africa’s two largest listed telecom operators reported their strongest […]
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Weekly Intelligence Briefing for Investors, Executives, and Decision-Makers China dropped tariffs for 53 African nations on May 1 in the most significant trade policy shift affecting the continent in years. At the same time, the Lobito Corridor moves from planning to financing, Equity Group is following trade routes south, and a South African consortium has […]
...Weekly Intelligence Briefing for Investors, Executives, and Decision-Makers Africa’s capital story shifted this week from who is investing in the continent to who owns it. Dangote announced a pan-African IPO for his refinery, valued at up to $50 billion, with listings planned across multiple African exchanges and dividends payable in dollars. At the same time, […]
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120 of Nigeria’s most talented emerging artists, selected from over 2,100 applications, begin intensive training with Berklee faculty on 22 April, closing with a live concert and the on-stage award of full three-year Berklee scholarships on Sunday 26 April The Tiwa Savage Music Foundation (TSMF), in partnership with Berklee College of Music, will this week […]
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It was a Saturday market day, which in the villages that straddle the Borno-Yobe border means something particular. It means the smell of dried fish and millet. It means men arriving on motorcycles before dawn, women spreading cloth on cracked earth, children darting between the stalls. It means the week’s commerce — and sometimes the […]
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Cybercrime is no longer a distant threat absorbed by wealthy economies with the resources to absorb it. It has moved — quietly, deliberately — into the fastest-growing digital markets on earth. And in Africa, where connectivity is expanding faster than the safeguards around it, the cost is beginning to show. The Cost of Getting Connected […]
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This year, the digital asset industry will no longer be divided by ideology, but by execution. The question will not be whether digital assets belong in the financial system, that debate is effectively over, but rather which platforms can operate at scale, under regulation, and across borders without friction. This is the point where much […]
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When a massive freeze on U.S. foreign aid in 2025 threatened to collapse Nigeria’s HIV response, the burden of survival shifted from international agencies to local doorsteps. In Benue State, a “small army” of volunteer “HIV champions” like Josephine Angev took to dusty village paths, tracking down patients who had fallen out of care and […]
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Nigeria’s entrepreneurial engine is gaining fresh momentum as Transnational Corporation Plc (Transcorp Group) deepens its investment in young business leaders. Through its partnership with the Tony Elumelu Foundation, the Group is supporting 625 entrepreneurs in the 2026 cohort, contributing to a continent-wide program that will equip 3,200 African founders with $5,000 each to launch and […]
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