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    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Naspers Ltd
      Naspers chief Bob van Dijk to step down

      During nine-year tenure, he oversaw internet group’s expansion including big investments in India

      Bob van Dijk in Amsterdam
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Vedanta Resources PLC
      Vedanta to take back ownership of Zambian copper mine

      Indian group to invest $1bn over 5 years to revive KCM after it struggled under state ownership

      A miner using a machine to excavate copper ore
    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      News in-depthSafaricom Ltd
      Safaricom’s mobile money rollout in Ethiopia marks moment for ‘last frontier’

      Privatisation wave makes country of 120mn people a tempting target for digital services

      A Safaricom advert in Nairobi
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Nigeria
      UK authorities charge former Nigeria oil minister with bribery

      Diezani Alison-Madueke accused of taking kickbacks for awarding multimillion-dollar oil and gas contracts

      Former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke speaks at an event
    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      LexCoal
      Thungela: rail fails transport miner from ignition to ignominy Premium content

      South Africa’s pitiful record of neglecting its infrastructure blights share’s valuation

      Coal being transported in open wagons
    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
      Energy sector
      Start-up taps carbon markets to boost clean cooking in Africa

      Koko Networks has raised more than $100mn through carbon finance

    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      MTN Group Ltd
      Mastercard to take minority stake in fintech arm of South Africa’s MTN

      Division that covers payments and remittances valued at more than $5bn

      A receptionist and two men in the entrance hall of MTN’s Johannesburg headquarters
    • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
      GSK PLC
      GSK to cease direct business in Nigeria amid economic pressure

      Drugmaker does not specify reason but forex shortage has put pressure on multinationals

    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      News in-depthSport
      Padel power: players and investors flock to tennis’s upstart rival

      Social sport enjoys boom as investors rush to open clubs and professional contests vie for prominence

      Juan Tello of Argentina and Alejandro Galan of Spain at the Paris Premier Padel Major at Roland Garros last summer
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      David Pilling
      Nigeria’s recovery might be a better bet than South Africa’s

      The two giants have faced a decade of woe but one has a better chance of turning a corner

      Passengers sit at a bus station beside campaign poster of President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima in Lagos last month
    • Saturday, 1 July, 2023
      Mining
      De Beers and Botswana strike deal on diamond sales after tense talks

      Negotiations had raised uncertainty over strategic value of miner for owner Anglo American

      Diamonds from Botswana’s mines are graded at De Beers office in Gaborone
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      China affords Nigeria ‘super’ target status

      Activities give sense of the importance Chinese companies in several sectors attach to country’s potential

      Website of African fintech company OPay on iPhone
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      Dangote oil scheme raises Nigeria hopes of more refined future

      The project, long in the making, is the brainchild of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote

      Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (C) cuts the tape to inaugurate the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals flanked by (from R to L) Senate President Ahmad Lawan, President/CEO Dangote Industries, Aliko Dangote, Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe, Chairman All Progressives Congress (APC) Abdullahi Adamu, Governor Dapo Abiodun, and Group executive director, Dangote Industries Devakumar Edwin
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      Nigeria’s oil and gas industry fails to cash in on global energy hunger

      Poor security and infrastructural under-investment blight national prospects

      a worker at an NNPC facility in Edo state
    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      Naspers Ltd
      Naspers and Prosus to exit cross-shareholding

      South African internet group owns more than a quarter of China’s Tencent

      Naspers and Prosus chief executive Bob van Dijk
    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      InterviewDR Congo
      DR Congo sounds alarm about cobalt prospects

      Head of DRC state mining group says country has lost opportunity to leverage market dominance

      A worker prepares sacks of cobalt powder at a mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Nigeria
      End to Nigeria currency peg causes biggest fall in naira’s history

      Abandonment of years-long policy follows removal of central bank chief Godwin Emefiele

    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Nigeria
      Nigeria’s foray into economic orthodoxy cheers investors

      Removal of central bank chief and scrapping of fuel subsidies gives markets ‘everything they hoped for’

      Two men in discussion as one looks at his mobile phone next to other passengers at a bus shelter
    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Nigeria
      Nigeria president’s move to end petrol subsidies sparks chaos

      Rush to stock up fuel causes long queues at service stations and immediate scarcity

      People sell black market fuel on the street in Lagos, Nigeria
    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      The cigar-chomping ‘Kissinger’ behind Africa’s mission to end Ukraine war

      Veteran fixer Jean-Yves Ollivier brokers an improbable plan to take six of the continent’s leaders to Moscow and Kyiv

      Jean-Yves Ollivier
    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Special Report
      Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies

      FT-Statista’s top 100, plus: global shocks test continent’s resilience; Nigeria leads; DRC solar offers hope; Egypt must reform to build on success stories; healthcare rises to dialysis challenge; the drive to digital; investors who do their research

      illustration of African workers bursting out from the page
    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Ziad Bahaa Eldin
      Egypt must face reality and reform to build on its success stories

      The need is to transform the minority of successful Egyptian companies into an overwhelming majority

      A woman walks out of a currency exchange shop displaying a giant US dollar banknote
    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
      Global shocks put Africa’s resilient spirit to the test

      Entrepreneurial flair continues to be key feature of continent’s economic dynamism

      illustration of marathon runners dumping cash on their heads from drinking cups
    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
      Nigerian businesses overcome woes to lead FT-Statista ranking

      Fast-growing companies thrive despite high inflation, chronic shortage of dollars and difficulties accessing foreign investment

      Eloho Omame, partner at TLcom
    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
      Africa healthcare faces dialysis challenge

      Continent’s rising demographics present an opportunity for private providers

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