The Insurance and Pension Commission (IPEC), an industry regulator, has closed down more than 224 occupational pension f...
Feb 15, 2018
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...
RBZ’s export incentives from 05 May 2016 to 31 December 2017 sterilised mineral royalty revenue by a discounting factor...
Feb 14, 2018
Makers of electric vehicle batteries will have to keep using scarce, expensive cobalt in their products for the foreseea...
Robert Mugabe’s fall as Zimbabwe president is setting the scene for the return of a London mining listing for Andrew Gro...
Aim-listed Botswana Diamonds has started exploration work on the Sunland Minerals joint venture (JV), which it shares wi...
The four deposit taking micro-finance institutions (DTMFI) that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe licensed have in the past y...
Listed cement producer Lafarge Zimbabwe is looking to expand its operations as it is set to commence exploration drillin...
INTRATREK Zimbabwe, the local private firm jointly awarded the tender for the 100 megawatt Gwanda solar project, says Zi...
Zimbabwe’s trade balance slipped back into deficit in September 2025, recording a shortfall of US$30.8 million after a modest surplus of US$6.9 million in August, a 548.8% swing from black to red. T
Zimbabwe has started the export of silver for the first time in 2025, after only registering three episodes of such in 2024. The country’s first time to export silver was in February 2024 worth US$
Zimbabwe has recorded a 46% increase in irrigated land from 151,000 hectares in 2019 to 221,000 hectares in 2025 in a landmark stride toward climate resilience and national food security according to
On October 28, 2025, President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivered his State of the Nation Address (SONA) to a joint sitting of Parliament in Mt Hampden, Zimbabwe, projecting cautious optimism amid a complex
The Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency is exhibiting a modest resilience this week in the formal market, appreciating by 0.04% against the US dollar last week. This slight gain aligns with broader stabilisa
Gold’s 2025 journey has been a rollercoaster, soaring to unprecedented heights before a dramatic plunge that has left investors questioning its next move. As of October 28, 2025, spot gold prices edge
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) and the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) are working on modalities to allow private companies to sell and distribute e
he International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) latest economic projections for Zimbabwe, as outlined in its October 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa, paint an ostensibly bright picture fo
