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The question of energy subsidies, a recurring issue in African public finances, is making a loud comeback. Originally designed to make gasoline, electricity, or gas affordable, these aids have ...
The Rebranding Africa Forum (RAF), founded in 2014 in Brussels, is an annual platform for strategic dialogue dedicated to addressing Africa’s major challenges and opportunities. Its mission is ...
Tunisia’s production of crude oil continues to decline. According to the report from the National Energy and Mines Observatory, production has dropped by 9% in one year, reaching 629 thousand ...
In Cameroon, between January and June 2025, the local subsidiary of Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN) Group, the South African telecommunications giant, achieved a turnover of 201.4 billion XAF ...
In Morocco, the National Office of Railways (ONCF) plans to secure a new financing of 202 million euros from the German public development bank KfW. This initia ...
MTN group has appointed Karl Toriola, who has been in charge of MTN Nigeria since March 2021, as vice president for Francophone Africa. In this role, he will oversee operations in strategic high ...
Mali raised on August 20, 2025, in the UMOA financial market, an amount of 18.796 billion CFA francs (33.834 million dollars) through a simultaneous auction of Treasury assimilable bills (BAT) of ...
Senegal aims to become self-sufficient in its gas supply by 2026, announced Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko. This initiative should allow the country to save 140 billion CFA francs and reduce the ...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the temporary freezing of the bank assets of Mele Kolo Kyari, former Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, the ...
At the end of December 2024, the Banking Commission of the UMOA supervised a total of 478 entities, including 160 credit institutions, 18 financial companies, 2 ...
The Kenyan group KCB has started negotiations to acquire a bank in Ethiopia within the next 18 months as part of its expansion plan, following Addis Ababa’s decision announced last June to allow ...
The Ghanaian government made a payment of $708.1 million in coupons on bonds issued under the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) on Tuesday, August 19. This transfer, the fifth of its kind ...