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Benin votes tomorrow as Talon picks his successor

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Africaspoint Editorial

Benin votes April 12 as outgoing President Patrice Talon steps down after a decade, with finance minister Romuald Wadagni the…

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Ghana fund hits $35m close to back West Africa SMEs

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Africaspoint Editorial

Ghana's Ci-Gaba Venture Capital Fund hit a $35m first close toward a $91m target, mobilising domestic pension fund capital into…

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Kenya halts rate cuts at 8.75% on oil price risk

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Africaspoint Editorial

Kenya's CBK paused its rate-cutting cycle at 8.75% after 10 consecutive cuts, citing oil price risks from the Iran war,…

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GITEX Africa opens in Marrakech with $5bn deals expected

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Africaspoint Editorial

Africa's largest tech event opened in Marrakech on April 7 with 1,450 exhibitors from 145 countries, 55,000 attendees, and $5bn…

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DStv sets World Cup streaming record

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

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Nigeria slams the IMF’s tax prescriptions

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

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Stop checking passports, SA minister warns

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

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Dangote’s petrol unit is down 34%

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

Afreximbank NigeriaBola Tinubu

Dangote secures $4bn loan to power Africa’s biggest refinery

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Ivory Coast kills 26-year trade barrier with Sahel

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Congo stops losing half its mining revenue

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Nigeria’s 68.6m BVN base faces new CBN crackdown

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