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AfricaBusiness

SAA is Africa’s first Bitcoin airline

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Africaspoint Editorial

South African Airways is the first major African airline to accept Bitcoin for flight bookings, using Ozow and MoneyBadger's Lightning…

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AfricaBusiness

Kenya’s $4bn railway breaks free of China

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Africaspoint Editorial

Kenya has restarted construction of the SGR extension stalled since 2019, raising up to $4bn through revenue securitisation rather than…

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AfricaBusiness

South Africa turns to Dangote for fuel

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Africaspoint Editorial

South Africa has lost half its refining capacity and gets 75% of its fuel from the Middle East. With the…

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AfricaBotswana

Botswana’s $3.7bn reserve loss forces a rethink

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Africaspoint Editorial

Botswana's foreign exchange reserves have collapsed from $7.5bn in 2017 to $3.2bn today. Diamond revenues are down 50%. GDP contracted…

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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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DRC and South Africa revive $10bn Inga 3 dam

Africa Political RiskBola Tinubu

Nigeria and UK sign three migration MoUs

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FIFA puts the World Cup on YouTube for Africa

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M-Pesa customers can now tap to pay

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