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Fastest growing cities in Africa 2026

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Africaspoint Editorial

Africa's fastest growing cities in 2026 combine population expansion, infrastructure investment and economic diversification. From Kigali to Lagos to Casablanca,…

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Africa’s DJ economy: Black Coffee leads $60m music empire

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Africaspoint Editorial

Black Coffee has built a $60 million empire from DJing, Grammy-winning production, tech equity and catalogue ownership. He is the…

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Airbus hails Ethiopian Airlines as Africa’s aviation blueprint

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Africaspoint Editorial

Airbus's Africa director publicly praised Ethiopian Airlines as the definitive continental aviation success story at the Africa Forward Summit week,…

Kenya family conglomerate corporate debt stress DL Group tea holdings business restructuring
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Kenya’s DL Group denies tea sale as debt pressure mounts

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Africaspoint Editorial

Kenya's DL Group has denied reports of a tea asset sale but Billionaires.Africa's analysis reveals multiple live debt actions across…

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Airtel Zambia joins the $1bn club

Airtel Networks Zambia Plc crossed US$1 billion in market capitalisation on the Lusaka Securities Exchange…

Ethiopia EV electric motorcycle Spiro Roam BasiGo Kenya 80 percent 2026Nala stablecoin Tanzania fintech $50m Liquidity MUFG 2026

Spiro bets on batteries, not motorcycles

Spiro co-founder Gagan Gupta told TechCabal that batteries and energy infrastructure, not motorcycles, drive the…

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Tanzania self-funds its $24bn budget

Tanzania's Finance Minister Khamis Mussa presented the Tsh62.33 trillion ($24 billion) 2026/27 budget on June…

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Cardoso wins Central Bank of the Year

Nigeria's Central Bank was named Central Bank of the Year 2026 at the Central Banking…

Africa agricultural finance capital markets securitisationEast Africa banking consolidation 2026

Kenya’s first private agri-securitisation at $2.1m

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Safaricom doubles home fibre speeds as rivals enter

GrowthShiprazor Cape Town ecommerce logistics 2026

Shiprazor raises $2.65m to fix Africa e-commerce logistics

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Cybervergent launches v3 across four African markets

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