Browsing: Africas

Nigeria’s central bank has opened a regulatory testing programme to stablecoin providers and other virtual-asset businesses, marking another step in the country’s shift from restricting the crypto industry towards bringing one of Africa’s biggest digital-asset markets under formal supervision.

Africa attracted a wave of major greenfield investment announcements in 2025, spanning chemicals, energy, mining and automotive manufacturing.

For decades, America’s engagement with Africa was largely defined by aid, public health programmes, security partnerships and political diplomacy, but Washington is now making a harder commercial calculation as it seeks to secure critical minerals, opening both direct and indirect investment opportunities for resource-rich African countries.

Zimbabwe approved US$1.59 billion worth of new investment projects in the second quarter of 2026, with mining and manufacturing absorbing nearly 80% of the proposed capital as the southern African country intensifies its push to build an industrial economy around its vast mineral resources.

Africa’s biggest oil producer is making its strongest pitch yet to win back global energy investors.

PalmPay, one of Africa’s fastest-growing digital payments companies, is considering a listing in Hong Kong after reaching a valuation of more than $1 billion, positioning the company to become one of the continent’s few fintech unicorns to test public markets following the slowdown in global startup funding.

Africa’s startup investment market took a markedly defensive turn in July as investors shifted away from equity financing toward debt, pushing monthly equity funding to its lowest level in more than seven years and underscoring growing caution across the continent’s venture capital ecosystem. Af…

South Africa’s entrepreneurship ecosystem trails global peers despite ambitious startups South Africans are no strangers to building businesses under pressure. From township enterprises to fast-growing tech startups, entrepreneurship has become both an opportunity and, for many, a necessity. Yet d…

South African subscription startup Rentoza entered voluntary business rescue in July 2026. The crisis stems from cash flow problems and an inability to secure new funding. Operational warning signs appeared earlier via delayed customer deliveries and refunds. A practitioner is now restructuring the …