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

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Africaspoint Editorial

Afreximbank underwrites $2.5bn of a $4bn syndicated loan for the Dangote Refinery, Africa's largest at 650,000 bpd, consolidating construction debt…

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AfricaGovernance

Ivory Coast kills 26-year trade barrier with Sahel

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Africaspoint Editorial

Côte d'Ivoire has scrapped a 26-year customs visa requirement on cargo to Mali and Burkina Faso, replacing it with two…

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AfricaGeopolitics

Congo stops losing half its mining revenue

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Africaspoint Editorial

DRC is deploying cobalt export quotas, advance royalties, digital weighing infrastructure, and a new mineral analysis lab as it moves…

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AfricaFinance

Nigeria’s 68.6m BVN base faces new CBN crackdown

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Africaspoint Editorial

Nigeria's BVN database hit 68.6 million in March 2026, but Q1 growth slowed sharply to 754,128 new registrations as the…

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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…

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Ghana scraps visas for all 1.4bn Africans

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Tomatoes flow again as Burkina lifts Ghana ban

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Ghana’s gold boom drives 134% stock market surge

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China floods Nigeria with $13bn in goods

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