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Pan-African business news covering all 54 nations. Continental trade, AfCFTA developments, multi-country investment, and business intelligence spanning the entire African continent.
Six pacts as Ruto visits Pretoria
President Ruto's June 4 state visit to South Africa yielded six bilateral agreements covering trade facilitation, skills development and maritime…
$1.25bn backs African startup incubation push
Investment firms Treadway and Invasion have committed $1.25 billion to a new incubation and investment platform backing early and growth-stage…
AethexAI’s $3m backs Africa voice AI
AethexAI has closed a $3 million pre-seed round led by 4DX Ventures with Enza Capital, Dorm Room Fund and Stanford…
Dangote refinery powers past 700,000bpd
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has validated crude processing capacity of 700,000 barrels per day, surpassing its 650,000 bpd nameplate design…
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US-Iran truce sends oil crashing
A US-Iran ceasefire agreement and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz have sent Brent…
MTN’s MoMo is going super app
MTN Group Fintech has partnered with Ant International, the global payments firm behind Alipay, to…
AfDB backs Arua airport in Uganda
The African Development Bank has approved $180 million to upgrade Uganda's Arua Airport into an…
South Africa braces for June 30
South Africa's police service has activated joint operations in all nine provinces at a projected…