The January inflation rate, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), has further dropped to 15.13 per cent from 15.37...
Feb 16, 2018
Telecommunications giant MTN is expected to do a public offer to issue 35 percent of its shares to the Ghanaian public b...
Feb 15, 2018
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) cut key interest rates by 100 basis points on Thursday, the bank said in a press release...
Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has today downgraded to B2 (stable outlook), from B1 (Rating Under Review outlook)...
The proposed Public Entities Corporate Governance Bill has criminalised the award of loans by parastatals to executives...
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is currently working with the banks to find ways of increasing long term cheaper fina...
Quick service restaurant (QSR) group, Simbisa Brands Limited is looking to expand its business with the proposed acquisi...
The Insurance and Pension Commission (IPEC), an industry regulator, has closed down more than 224 occupational pension f...
Fintech is boosting financial inclusion across Africa, according to Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com/group), the leading indepen...
Ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded Kenya’s long-term issuer bond rating by one notch to B2 from B1 with a stable outl...
Mozambique’s economy grew by 3.7 percent in 2017, according to figures released yesterday by the government. “Growth in...
Rising prices are more of a threat to the global economy this year than joblessness, according to Bloomberg’s Misery Ind...
President Jacob Zuma has resigned with immediate effect after being recalled by the ANC National Executive Committee on...
South Africa has declared a national disaster over the drought afflicting southern and western regions including Cape To...
Angola's inflation slowed to 22.72 percent year-on-year in January compared with 23.67 percent in December, data on the...
Liberia's new President George Weah has ordered a review of concessions entered into by previous administrations, the pr...
Uganda's central bank cut its benchmark lending rate to 9.0 percent from 9.5 percent, its governor said on Tuesday, addi...
Zambian president Edgar Lungu appointed new finance and mining ministers in a reshuffle on Wednesday. Margaret Mwanak...
Angolan lawmakers on Wednesday approved a 9.6 trillion kwanza ($45.69 billion) state budget for this year forecasting 4....
Namibia's central bank left its benchmark lending rate unchanged at 6.75 percent on Wednesday, saying the level was appr...
BAT Zambia, the country's only listed tobacco manufacturer and the dominant player in Zambia's formal cigarette market, has reported a year in which profit grew but the business shrank, a paradox that
When Invictus Energy, an Australian-listed junior explorer, first announced it had struck a discovery of gas-condensate and light oil in the Cabora Bassa Basin of Zimbabwe, it felt like the birth of a
First Quantum Minerals, one of the world’s leading copper producers and Zambia’s single largest taxpayer in the mining sector has entered into a binding agreement to sell its Çayeli copper-zinc mine i
The Competition and Tariff Commission (CTC) has greenlit the acquisition of Dendairy (Private) Limited by Vamara Group Limited, a subsidiary of the Mauritius-registered Export Trading Group (ETG), in
CEC Renewables Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of CEC PLC and a pivotal player in Zambia's burgeoning green energy sector, has reported a robust 63% surge in profit after tax for the year ended Dec
Gold prices have continued their relentless climb, reaching US$5,222 per ounce by late February 2026, marking a 5% gain for the month and a remarkable 20% year-to-date increase, according to W
Long-term capital formation remains the decisive variable. Large-scale mining requires stable exchange rate policy, predictable foreign currency retention thresholds and enforceable contract framework
