Trade & Investment

Cross-border trade flows, foreign direct investment, and dealmaking across the continent.

Moses Muriithi, CEO of Fanaka Real Estate

How Fanaka Real Estate Built a Multimillion-Dollar Business in Kenya in a Decade

With more than 15,000 land title deeds issued and 25 to 30 percent average annual growth, CEO Moses Muriithi credits an installment-payment model and keeping post-sale logistics in-house rather than outsourcing them.

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Africa's Biggest Family Businesses Are Finally Planning Who Comes Next

From Dangote's daughters taking on operating roles to BUA and Globacom elevating founders' children, a generation of African conglomerates is starting to treat succession as a structural economic issue rather than a private family matter.

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Tunisia Pitches Itself as Europe and Africa's Nearshoring Bridge

With more than 200 automotive companies already operating there and executives talking up its engineering talent pool, Tunisia is positioning its location between three continents as a hard economic asset rather than just geography.

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A view of downtown Kampala, Uganda's capital

Trade & Investment

Uganda Turns Years of Political Stability Into an Investment Pitch

With growth holding at 6.3 percent, a $550 million steel plant underway and its financial markets ranking jumping from 10th to 3rd in Africa since 2017, Uganda is leaning on stability as its main selling point to investors.

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Trade & Investment

Ruto Says Dangote's Kenya Refinery Will Create 60,000 Jobs and Cut Import Dependence

The $15-16 billion Lamu facility is designed to serve Kenya and six neighboring countries, with Dangote predicting it will pull in a wave of follow-on investment once it's running.

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Trade & Investment

Ethiopia Breaks Ground on $12.5 Billion Project It Says Will Be Africa's Biggest Airport

The Bishoftu hub, designed to eventually handle 110 million passengers a year and replace the capital's congested Bole Airport, is meant to anchor Ethiopia's bid to become a dominant African aviation and logistics hub.

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Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa shaking hands with investor Prateek Suri in a hotel suite

Trade & Investment

Mnangagwa Courts Investor Prateek Suri in Dubai Over Zimbabwe Tech Push

Talks on the sidelines of the World Government Summit touched on digital infrastructure, mining and logistics investment, with a proposed joint innovation hub for ICT startups among the ideas discussed.

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Trade & Investment

Afreximbank Pushes Industrialisation and Intra-African Trade Ahead of 2026 Annual Meetings

With more than 4,000 delegates expected in El Alamein, Egypt, the bank is framing deeper trade ties among African countries and expanded processing capacity as the path to the continent's economic sovereignty.

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Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire Move to Deepen Automotive Trade Links Ahead of Abidjan Expo

With the inaugural EQUIP AUTO Cote d'Ivoire exhibition set for late November, industry leaders are betting on Nigeria's scale and Cote d'Ivoire's francophone reach to knit West Africa's fragmented auto parts market closer together.

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Trade & Investment

ITUC-Africa Says the Continent Must Fund Its Own Development From Its Own Resources

The labor federation argues that swapping crude oil exports for unprocessed lithium and rare earths won't break Africa's dependency on outside financing unless mineral wealth is turned into domestic industry, jobs and revenue first.

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Ghana's Tax Authority Opens Probe Into 28 Vanished Containers at Tema Port

Importers say some consignments turned up empty, others went missing entirely, and some were diverted to private warehouses — prompting the Ghana Revenue Authority to stand up a nine-member investigation.

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