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AfricaInfrastructure

$2bn railway rewires Southern Africa

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Africaspoint Editorial

Zimbabwe and Zambia signed a $2.18 billion MoU on April 11 to build the 311-kilometre Lion's Den to Kafue railway,…

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AfricaBusiness

IFC pays $111m for Morocco’s waste

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Africaspoint Editorial

The IFC approved a €95 million ($111 million) loan for Morocco's OCP Group to build a 22-million-tonne phosphogypsum storage facility…

AfricaFinance

SA wins first IFC rand loan

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Africaspoint Editorial

The IFC and Citi have signed a R1.6 billion ($98 million) rand borrowing facility that gives the World Bank's private-sector…

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AfricaFinance

BlackRock’s $28bn South Africa bet grows

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Africaspoint Editorial

BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners chairman Adebayo Ogunlesi disclosed at a Cape Town summit that BlackRock manages $28 billion in South…

Africa Finance Corporation AFC $2 billion record syndicated loan infrastructure 2026Africa GDP 4.2 percent growth fastest economies 2025 2026

AFC closes record $2bn syndicated loan

Africa Finance Corporation raised a record $2 billion syndicated loan on June 4, upsized from…

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Salt River Market transformed into 970 homes

Cape Town's Salt River Market site was formally handed to developer Communicare on June 8…

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Rwanda locks in $250m IMF credit facility

The IMF Executive Board approved Rwanda's $250 million, 38-month Extended Credit Facility on June 9,…

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Nigeria’s trade surplus triples to N7.55tn

Nigeria's Q1 2026 merchandise trade surplus surged 341% to N7.55 trillion ($4.1 billion) from N1.71…

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Angola DRC power interconnection 1.5 billion 2026Infrastructure

Angola and DRC build Africa’s biggest power interconnection

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Rwanda lands Elsewedy Electric and Schneider at CEO Forum

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Lamu, Mombasa, Tanger Med: Africa’s ports are winning

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Somalia slides toward famine as aid collapses and Hormuz bites

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