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Agriculture is regarded as one of the major pillars of Zimbabwe’s economic growth as supported by the Country’s Indigenization and empowerment programs in the form of Land reform and Command farming initiatives. The introduction of Command Farming has brought many...
Rwanda’s NST2 names capital-intensive priorities but not the financing. Fikiria reads the capital stack, risk allocation and whether local firms can enter.
Ethiopia floats the birr under an IMF US$3.4bn programme, resetting pricing, repatriation and risk for investors weighing capital in the Horn of Africa.
Ethiopia’s market-based birr reprices the Djibouti–Addis corridor and reopens the region’s largest neighbour to East African exporters and investors.
Explore the future of decentralized decision-making in Namibia, focusing on its benefits, challenges, and role in fostering inclusive governance.
Somalia’s US$4.5bn HIPC debt relief re-rates sovereign risk and opens concessional finance. What it means for capital structure and local firms.
Somalia’s EAC accession on 24 November 2023 raises the capital question: who funds alignment, who carries dollarised risk, and can local firms hold equity.
Lobito’s real story is finance. Inside the blended capital stack, currency and volume risk, and whether Congolese firms can enter the corridor’s supply chain.
The recent release of Zambia's macroeconomic statistics for September 2023 has shed light on the state of the nation's economy in the second quarter of the year. In a year marked by global economic uncertainties, Zambia has managed to maintain a steady growth rate of...