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Ethiopia launches $10,000 ten-year golden visa
Ethiopia's Council of Ministers has approved a 10-year golden investor visa priced at $10,000, doubling the previous maximum residency period…
East Africa’s banks face the fintech reckoning
Fintechs and mobile money operators are structurally eroding the core business of East African banks, squeezing fee income, deposits, and…
$50m fund bets on Africa’s film industry
Akunna Cook's Next Narrative Africa Fund is deploying $50 million into African film and TV, with a first slate of…
Malawi bans raw mineral exports, freezes licences
President Mutharika has suspended all new mining licences, ordered a full audit of the licensing registry, and banned raw mineral…
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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…
Nigeria slams the IMF’s tax prescriptions
A Nigerian think tank, the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics, has criticised the IMF's…
Stop checking passports, SA minister warns
South Africa's Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi warned at an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration briefing on…
Dangote’s petrol unit is down 34%
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has been running its main petrol-producing RFCCU unit at 34% below…