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JSE Up 44% in a Year. BofA Says the Run Is Not Over Yet.

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Bank of America says South Africa's record stock market run has further to go, driven by gold up 86%, platinum…

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Kenya Has 2 AI-Ready Data Centres. South Africa Has 5. The Gap Is Now a Crisis.

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Kenya's Special Envoy for Technology Philip Thigo used the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to issue a direct appeal for…

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AfricaBusiness

Iran War Sends Oil Past $100. Nigeria and Angola Are Winning. Here Is Who Is Not.

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A US-Israeli military strike on Iran has sent crude prices surging toward $100 a barrel, splitting Africa into clear winners…

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Kenya Loses $230 Million to Cybercrime in a single quarter. Cybergame 2026 is the answer

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Kenya's Ministry of ICT has launched the 2nd edition of CyberGame Kenya, a ten-week national competition running until May 9…

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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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Kenya Airports Authority Shuts Down Adani Comeback Talk as JKIA Tender Goes Public

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Nigeria’s Airports Just Went Cashless. The First-Day Chaos Was the Point.

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Ghana’s E-Visa Is Now Nine Months Late and Still Coming by December 2026

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East African Leaders Meet to Launch a Single Customs Bond and a $232m Debt Crisis

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