Canal+ Completes Its $3.17 Billion Acquisition of MultiChoice, Absorbing DStv...
Canal+ has completed its $3.17 billion acquisition of MultiChoice, making DStv and GOtv wholly owned...
From Remittances to Bonds: What Ghana’s Remit2Invest Initiative and Nigeria’s...
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Côte d’Ivoire’s Post-Election Investor Reality: What Ouattara’s Fourth Term, the...
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Senegal’s DER/FJ Catalyst Fund and the Wave Partnership: What a $50 Million Pre-Seed Vehicle Means...
ASINT / Finance & Institutions The announcement and its structural design Senegal’s Rapid Entrepreneurship Delegation for Women and Youth announced...
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Dakar Positions Itself as West Africa’s AI Summit Hub: What the K-Sénégal Initiative Reveals About Francophone AI Diplomacy
ASINT / Geopolitics & Risks The summit and its architecture The K-Sénégal AI Startup Summit took place on June 18 and 19, 2026, at the Noom Hotel in Dakar, organised as an initiative of the KPC Consortium Sénégal in partnership with the Korea International Cooperation Agency. The summit gathered startups, investors, public institutions, private companies, […]
Guinea’s Mining Boom and Its Current Account Arithmetic: What the EITI Score and the Balance of Payments Reveal About the Resource Paradox
ASINT / Macro Strategy The balance of payments picture The current account balance in Guinea improved significantly in 2025, to a surplus of 11.2% of GDP from a deficit of 1.3% in 2024, following normalisation of investment income outflows and a decline in payments for services related to mining projects. Foreign exchange reserves rose to […]
Guinea’s ECOWAS and AU Reintegration: What the Double Return Means for Investment Positioning
ASINT / Geopolitics & Risks The two decisions and their sequencing The African Union’s Peace and Security Council lifted the suspension on Guinea’s participation in AU activities at its 1325th meeting on January 22, 2026, following the successful organisation of the presidential election on December 28, 2025, and the inauguration of President Mamadi Doumbouya on […]
ECOWAS’s Compact for the Future of Regional Integration: Reading a Six-Pillar Survival Strategy in a Fractured Bloc
ASINT / Macro Strategy The compact and what it proposes The Economic Community of West African States has proposed a new six-pillar strategic initiative, the “Compact for the Future of Regional Integration”, presented at the First Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja on May 14, 2026, by Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah, ECOWAS Commissioner for […]
ECOWAS Widens Its Border Mission to the Mano River Basin: What the Guinea-Liberia Escalation Adds to the Yenga Dispute
ASINT / Geopolitics & Risks The incidents and the ECOWAS response On March 12, 2026, the ECOWAS Commission issued a statement from its Abuja headquarters expressing serious concern over escalating tensions along the borders of Guinea with Liberia and Sierra Leone, and announcing the deployment of a technical assessment mission to the Mano River Basin. […]
Conakry Household Vulnerability Profile Set to Guide Guinea’s Social Safety Net
ASINT / Finance & Institutions Guinea is preparing to give its social protection system a more structured data base. On July 8, the Fonds de Développement Social et de l’Indigence, under the Ministry of Women, Family and Solidarities, is set to present in Conakry the socio-demographic and socio-economic profile of households registered in the Registre […]
Yelen and the Social Commerce Banking Gap: What a $300K Pre-Seed Round Reveals About West Africa’s Informal Economy Fintech Frontier
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Nigeria’s $170 Million DICE Fund of Funds: What the iDICE Architecture Means for African Venture Capital Market-Building
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Bah Oury’s Rentier Economy Warning: What a Digital Training Platform Launch Revealed About Guinea’s Simandou Governance Dilemma
ASINT / Macro Strategy The platform and what the Prime Minister used it to say On July 1,...
Guinea Installs 8,753 Communal Councillors and Elects 375 Mayors: What Local Governance Restoration Means for the Transition’s Final Mile
ASINT / Legal & Regulatory The arrêté and what it triggered On June 23, 2026, the Minister of...
Guinea’s Finance Ministry Tightens the Spending Chain: What Four Reform Actions Signal About IMF Programme Readiness
ASINT / Macro Strategy The July sequence and what it covers In the first week of July 2026,...
Guinea’s Finance Ministry Tightens the Spending Chain: What Four Reform Actions Signal About IMF Programme Readiness
ASINT / Macro Strategy The July sequence and what it covers In the first week of July 2026,...
The IMF Wraps Up in Conakry: What Two Weeks of Article IV Talks Produced and What Guinea Still Needs to Deliver
ASINT / Macro Strategy What the mission covered and how it closed The two-week IMF Article IV consultation...
Zambia’s Copper Borrowing Engine: What a Post-Default Debt Strategy Means When the Commodity It Depends On Is the Same One That Caused the Crisis
ASINT / Macro Strategy From default to buyback in five yearsIn November 2020, Zambia missed a $42.5 million...
South Africa’s Anti-Migrant Protests Turn Social Tension Into Business Continuity Risk
South Africa’s anti-migrant protests on June 30 pushed several cities into partial shutdown. Workers stayed home, shops closed,...
China Approves Standard Bank and ICBC for Africa-Wide RMB Clearing
China’s central bank has authorised Standard Bank and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to clear renminbi...
Nine African Teams in the Knockouts: What the 2026 World Cup Breakthrough Means for the Continent’s Football Capital Base
ASINT / Macro Strategy The historical break and what it measures Africa had a historic 10 nations qualify...
Senegal IMF Mission Arrives as Dakar Pre-Pays Forex Debt: The Sequence Toward a Q4 2026 Programme Begin
Senegal and the IMF: No Deal Expected From the June Mission as Investors Price in Default ASINT /...
Côte d’Ivoire’s $832.8 Million IMF Disbursement: Reading Abidjan’s Reform Premium in a Tighter West African Financing Cycle
ASINT / Finance & Institutions The sixth review and what it closes On June 24, 2026, the IMF...
TAIHE Mining, Ashapura, and the Forécariah Dispute: What Guinea’s Commercial Court Enforcement Test Reveals About Mining Title Governance
The facts of the Forécariah dispute The Société Guinéenne des Mines de Fer, SGMF, a subsidiary of the...