Co-operative Bank backs summit strengthening port sector

Director of Corporate and Institutional Banking at Co-operative Bank, Lydia Rono, during the ITLS summit in Mombasa on October 28, 2025/HANDOUTCo-operative Bank of Kenya has reaffirmed its commitment to the maritime and logistics sector by...

BAL and Afreximbank launch entrepreneurship program to help African athletes

BAL and Afreximbank ink deal to empower athletes.HANDOUT/FILE The Basketball Africa League (BAL) and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) have unveiled BAL Advance: Next Play, a new entrepreneurship initiative designed to help African...

Africa's energy giant expands $560m investment to tackle imports, deforestation in Rwanda

The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Stephen Tierney, said the first phase of the project, valued at just over $360 million, is nearing completion, with all lake sites and onshore facilities already in place and offshore works now underway. “At...

New push to expand access to finance for Rwanda’s farmers

Luxury tourism is a risky strategy for African economies – new study of Botswana, Mauritius, Rwanda

How successful is luxury tourism in Africa? What happens if it fails to produce higher tourism revenues: can it be reversed? And does it depend on what kind of government is in place? Pritish Behuria is a scholar of the political economy of...

JEA Urges FTA with African Countries to Expand Market Reach

Ammon News - The Jordan Exporters Association (JEA) has called for the establishment of a free trade agreement (FTA) between Jordan and African countries to enhance the country’s export performance and industrial footprint across one of the...

MTN Group Fintech Secures Best Platform Business Award at Y’ello Care Awards

MTN Group Fintech proudly announces its historic achievement by securing the first Regional Platform Business Award at MTN’s Y’ello Care Awards. For 21 days in June, MoMo teams across the group and markets on the continent made a positive impact...

Airtel Africa Foundation Partners with the ITU, RISA & Cisco to Help Rwandans Boost Digital Skills

Airtel Africa Foundation has partnered on a Joint Initiative with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA) and Cisco on capacity and digital skills development, under the Digital Transformation...

East Africa’s $420m synthetic fuel project aims to rival Dangote in Africa’s jet fuel market

Tanzania is edging closer to launching one of its most transformative industrial projects, the development of a gas-to-liquid (GTL) plant that will locally produce diesel, jet fuel, naptha, hydrogen, and fertilizer posing as a major challenger to...

Malawi economy loses ground to peers—IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Malawi’s economy is losing ground to its regional peers as reform momentum stalls, inflation persists and public debt mounts. In its Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Economic Outlook for October 2025, the...

Kenya’s economy lagging behind Tanzania, AU report shows

FILE Kenya is lagging behind Tanzania in the region in trade diversification, mainly trading in raw material goods, hence slowing down economic growth and compounding poverty, a new African Union report shows. The 2025 African Union Continent...

Belem – ‘The Delivery COP’ – Must Secure Africa’s Future and That of Humanity

Across Africa, many efforts like these abound. They include large-scale renewable energy projects; extensive forest landscape restoration initiatives; locally led adaptation efforts; and innovative climate finance approaches. Over the last decade,...

Amid Bolstering Bilateral Trade Relations, Confidence, UK’s Body Shop Debuts in Lagos

•Nigeria, UK trade hits £7.9 billion James Emejo and Michael Olugbode in Abuja The UK’s Body Shop has announced the opening of a new store in Lagos, following the brand’s successful debut in Abuja in March. The development further demonstrates the...

The 13th All Africa Business Leaders Awards to Recognise Excellence in African Leadership and Innovation

27 October 2025 | Johannesburg, South Africa – The All Africa Business Leaders Awards (AABLA™), in partnership with CNBC Africa, SNG Grant Thornton, and Henley Business School Africa, will host its 13th edition on 12 November 2025 at the Sandton...

Rwanda economy withstands global trade shocks

In the ever-volatile landscape of global trade, Rwanda stands as a beacon of economic stability. Despite ongoing uncertainties, Rwanda’s economy is projected to grow to an impressive 7.6% by 2026, according to the latest forecast by the...

Rwanda upbeat on deepening investments in ICT sector

Rwanda is increasingly focusing on bolstering digital literacy and enhancing its ICT sector to prepare its workforce for global demands. In an exclusive interview with CNBC Africa, Esther Kunda, Director-General of the Ministry of ICT in Rwanda,...

Kigali Plant Boosts Africa’s Vaccine Self-Reliance

Backed by fresh European financing, BioNTech’s Kigali facility is emerging as the cornerstone of Africa’s mRNA vaccine ecosystem, bridging the gap between ambition and large-scale production. A new European financial backing of BioNTech’s mRNA...

‘It did work with India, Pakistan’: Trump reiterates claims of mediating conflicts through tariffs

Washington DC [US], November 3 (ANI): US President Donald Trump once again repeated his assertion that tariffs were instrumental in averting a "nuclear war" between India and Pakistan during the May 2025 escalation, claiming he warned both...

These millennials working in finance and tech were among the donors who gave over $125 million after Trump slashed foreign aid

Multiple groups launched fundraisers in February and eventually, these emergency funds mobilized more than $125 million within eight months, a sum that while not nearly enough, was more than the organizers had ever imagined possible. In those...

Celebrate 100 Years Of Legacy And Learn From Rwanda's Sustainable Tourism Model

Silverback Mountain Gorilla is an endangered species of primate living in Rwanda, Uganda and DRC. getty Rwanda has a lot to celebrate this year. A century ago, in 1925, Africa’s first national park was created, launching the Greater Virunga...