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AfricaFinance

AVCA Nairobi: local capital rises as exits hit record

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Africaspoint Editorial

The 22nd Annual AVCA Conference concluded in Nairobi on April 30 with over 800 investors, record 2025 venture exits, 30%…

AfricaBusiness

OPay hits $3.1bn as Opera flags 85% IPO probability

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Africaspoint Editorial

Opera's FY2025 SEC filing values OPay at $3.1 billion and assigns an 85% probability of an IPO within two years.…

AfricaEthiopia

Dodai raises $13m to build Ethiopia EV network

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Africaspoint Editorial

Ethiopian electric mobility startup Dodai has closed a $13 million Series A including BII debt financing to scale its locally…

AfricaInfrastructure

Zimbabwe ships Africa’s first lithium sulphate

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Africaspoint Editorial

Zimbabwe shipped Africa's first-ever lithium sulphate consignment on April 28 from the Arcadia mine, produced at Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt's $400…

Africa clean energy solar power investment boom 2026DStv World Cup streaming record 900000 viewers Bafana South Africa FIFA 2026

DStv sets World Cup streaming record

DStv Stream recorded over 900,000 concurrent viewers for South Africa's opening World Cup 2026 match…

Africa GDP 4.2 percent growth fastest economies 2025 2026CBN Nigeria Central Bank Year award Cardoso reform FX inflation 2026

Nigeria slams the IMF’s tax prescriptions

A Nigerian think tank, the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics, has criticised the IMF's…

HormuzSouth Africa immigration xenophobia Ramaphosa March deportation crackdown 2026

Stop checking passports, SA minister warns

South Africa's Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi warned at an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration briefing on…

Aliko DangoteDangote refinery 700000 barrels day capacity expansion 1.4 million 2026

Dangote’s petrol unit is down 34%

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has been running its main petrol-producing RFCCU unit at 34% below…

Africa banking consolidation microfinance 2026Africa capital markets pan-African listing

Axian buys five Letshego banking units across Africa

Africa trade finance supply chain business agriculture manufacturing IFC
Africa DFI development finance institutionsAfrica trade finance gap SME suppliers

IFC and StanChart launch $300m Africa supply chain fund

South Africa fuel petrol pump price relief diesel levy Treasury
Enoch Godongwana Treasury fiscal policySARB interest rates monetary policy 2026

SA slashes diesel levy to zero in R17.2bn relief

South Africa economy inflation consumer prices fuel cost of living
IMF Sub-Saharan Africa outlook 2026SARB interest rates monetary policy 2026

SA inflation edges to 3.1% before oil shock registers

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