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The IMF Wraps Up in Conakry: What Two Weeks of...
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Zambia’s Copper Borrowing Engine: What a Post-Default Debt Strategy Means When the Commodity It Depends...
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Afreximbank 2026 Trade Report: Africa as a Supply Chain Pivot in a Fragmented World — What the Timing of This Framing Signals
Afreximbank’s 2026 Trade Report frames Africa as a supply chain pivot in a fragmenting global order. The timing signals a deliberate institutional repositioning, not merely an analytical exercise. For investors and operators, the question is whether this framing precedes concrete financing instruments or remains strategic positioning.
Rwanda Tables $5.3B Budget for 2026-27: Bugesera Airport, RwandAir and Infrastructure Drive a 12% Spending Increase
ASINT / Macro Strategy What Was Tabled on June 11 Finance and Economic Planning Minister Yusuf Murangwa presented Rwanda’s national budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year to Parliament on June 11, following Cabinet approval earlier that week. The proposed budget stands at RWF 7,796.3 billion, approximately $5.3 billion, a 12% increase from the revised 2025-26 […]
Nigeria’s Listed Champions Recover Pre-Devaluation Dollar Earnings: Reading a Three-Year Corporate Resilience Story
ASINT / Macro Strategy Three years after Nigeria’s naira float, a measurable milestone has been reached in the country’s corporate sector. A review of 28 major listed companies across consumer goods, industrials, telecoms, and energy sectors shows combined profit before tax rose to $4.4 billion in 2025, exceeding the $3.8 billion recorded in 2022 before […]
Nigeria’s Listed Champions Recover Pre-Devaluation Dollar Earnings: Reading a Three-Year Corporate Resilience Story
ASINT / Macro Strategy Three years after Nigeria’s naira float, a measurable milestone has been reached in the country’s corporate sector. A review of 28 major listed companies across consumer goods, industrials, telecoms, and energy sectors shows combined profit before tax rose to $4.4 billion in 2025, exceeding the $3.8 billion recorded in 2022 before […]
Cameroon IMF Article IV 2026: 3.3% Growth, High Debt Distress Risk, and a Fiscal Reform Agenda Tied to Iron and Bauxite Export Revenue
On March 25, 2026, the IMF Executive Board concluded the 2026 Article IV Consultation for Cameroon. The assessment presents an economy that is resilient but underperforming, growing at 3.3% in 2026 after slowing to 3.1% in 2025 when post-election unrest disrupted trade, services and investment in October and November. The medium-term outlook is more favourable: […]
Fitch Upgrades South Africa for the First Time in 21 Years. What the BB Rating Signals for the GNU’s Fiscal Credibility
ASINT / Macro Strategy On June 5, 2026, Fitch Ratings upgraded South Africa’s long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings from BB- to BB with a stable outlook, the first upgrade by the agency in nearly 21 years. The last positive Fitch action on South Africa was in 2005. The upgrade follows S&P Global […]
How Africa Is Changing Catholicism: What the Continent’s Growing Institutional Weight Means for Global Power Structures
The Annuario Pontificio 2026 data reveals a remarkable increase in the number of Catholics in Africa. The number...
Benin’s West Africa Presidential Tour: What the UEMOA Circuit Signals About the New Francophone Economic Diplomacy Playbook
Romuald Wadagni, elected president of Benin on April 12, 2026 with over 94% of the vote as the...
Bank of Ghana Blocks MTN Mobile Money Transfer Fee: Reading a Regulatory Intervention That Goes Beyond Consumer Protection
ASINT / Macro Strategy On May 26, 2026, the Bank of Ghana directed Mobile Money Fintech Limited, MTN...
Mali Council of Ministers, June 10: What the Latest Decrees Reveal About the Transition’s Economic Priorities
Category: Macro Strategy The Mali Council of Ministers met on June 10 at Koulouba under the presidency of...
West Africa’s $11B Health Market Under Pressure: Why Import Dependence and FX Volatility Are Forcing a Local Supply Chain Reckoning
ASINT / Macro Strategy Africa’s medical supplies market is projected to surge from $6.5 billion in 2025 to...
AfDB African Economic Outlook 2026: Africa at 4.4% GDP Growth — What’s Behind the Numbers and Where the Structural Gaps Remain
Macro Strategy Africa’s economies grew at 4.4% in 2025, nearly one percentage point higher than the previous year,...
Ghana-UK Investment Summit June 1-2: What Accra Is Putting on the Table and What London Actually Wants in Return
ASINT / Macro Strategy The Ghana-UK Investment Summit 2026 took place at Raffles London on June 1 and...
West Africa at 4.4% Growth in 2026: What the UN and PwC Outlooks Agree On and Where They Diverge on Nigeria and Senegal
ASINT / Macro Strategy The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and PwC’s West Africa Economic Outlook, both...
Lagos Fintech Summit April 2026: “Payments Are Solved”, Reading the Pivot Towards AI and Inclusion
On 22 April 2026, at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos, the inaugural BusinessDay Fintech Summit brought together fintech...
BOAD’s New Dakar Headquarters: 695 Billion FCFA Deployed in Senegal, Reading the Bank’s Continental Repositioning
On 7 May 2026, the West African Development Bank (BOAD) officially inaugurated its new Dakar headquarters. The event,...
ZLECAf at Year Five: Algiers, Lome, One Question on Execution
In May 2026, two events have framed the AfCFTA’s fifth-year sequence. On 9 May 2026 in Algiers, AfCFTA...
Cross-Border Capital Flows and African Champions: What Investors Actually Need Before They Commit
The Kigali sequence in May 2026 has set a clear ambition: building continental African champions through shared ownership...
Continental Champions: The Regulatory Barriers Kigali Named but Did Not Solve
The 13th edition of the Africa CEO Forum, held on 14-15 May 2026 in Kigali, named its central...
Senegal MSGBC 2026: Sovereignty and Regional Gas Integration on the Upstream Agenda
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Scale or Fail: What the CEO Forum Theme Says About the Real State of African Capitalism
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the BRVM has adopted a SMARTS-type market surveillance tool
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