Finance and Investment
Benin has secured €500 million in international bank financing, with backing from the African Development Fund, to support development priorities across the country.
Economy
Despite giving so much to the world, African nations have spent years relying on external financial aid, loans, and foreign development grants simply to fund domestic budgets. Over the decades, this relationship has evolved from post-colonial aid packages into a complex web of global dependency.
Finance and Investment
African agritech startups raised less than $170 million in 2025, down from more than $200 million in 2024, according to Briter’s State of Agtech Investment in Africa 2025.
African Progress
The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States reaffirmed the priority of advancing the ECO currency project. ECOWAS has retained 2027 as the target contained in its existing roadmap, although the eventual launch is expected to depend on countries meeting the required conditions.
Finance and Investment
Dangote's ₦2.15 trillion refinery IPO is either proof African capital can finance African industry, or a $50 billion bet built on a tenth of the company. ADC unpacks what naira exposure, thin margins and diaspora access reveal about who actually builds Africa's next industrial era.
Digital Assets
Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya each passed landmark digital asset legislation within about thirteen months of one another. With the Digital Assets Summit Africa returning to Accra, the coming months will test whether implementation can keep pace with adoption that's already outrun Law three times over.
Finance and Investment
The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has successfully returned to the international capital markets, raising US$500 million through a Eurobond issued at the tightest pricing ever achieved by a premier investment-grade issuer focused on Africa.
Finance and Investment
Regional leaders have outlined an ambitious agenda to accelerate sovereign debt restructuring and strengthen Africa’s financial resilience, with the goal of helping key West African economies achieve investment-grade status within the next three years.
Finance and Investment
For decades, Africa has often been discussed through the language of aid, debt relief, and development assistance. International conversations involving the continent frequently focused on poverty reduction, governance reforms, and humanitarian challenges, reinforcing the perception of Africa as...
Finance and Investment
Big ideas often struggle long before they reach the people they are meant to help. Across Africa and other emerging markets, many solutions to inequality never move beyond the concept stage because access to patient capital remains limited. This week, a new funding window signaled growing...
Finance and Investment
Women in African entrepreneurship are not a new story. African women have been trading, farming, selling, building, and leading businesses for centuries. What is new, in 2026, is the scale and the growing recognition that if Africa wants to build...
Finance and Investment
The Mauritius Commercial Bank has launched a $1 billion multi-year trade finance facility aimed at supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating within the African Continental Free Trade Area framework.