Afreximbank’s Angola pipeline targets local ownership, not contracts
A $5.18 billion pipeline of Angola energy opportunities is being framed around moving indigenous companies from service provision into larger ownership and operating roles. Afreximbank’s latest Angola initiative is significant because it changes the definition of...
Private Chinese Parks: Ethiopia’s Export Bet, Built Largely by Outsiders
Economics - Industry & Resources · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Ethiopia set out to industrialise by export, and budgeted accordingly - targeting US$1 billion in annual industrial-park investment to become, in the government's...
Eastern Industrial Zone: A Chinese Park Counted in Jobs, Not Just Square Metres
Economics - Industry & Resources · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 When the Qiyuan Group broke ground at Dukem, the promise was tidy: a 500-hectare zone, 80 Chinese companies, and over 20,000 jobs for Ethiopian workers within five...
Power as Productivity: Why Africa’s Energy Gap Is a Jobs Problem First
Economics - Industry & Resources · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The standard headline counts the unconnected - around 600 million Africans without electricity, the large majority in sub-Saharan Africa. That number is real, and...
Green Triad: How Hydropower, Wind and Solar Anchor a New China-Africa Bargain
Economics - Macro & Markets · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 China's foreign ministry talks about a single green partnership with Africa, working with the continent to drive its transition through hydropower, wind and solar. But...
The Future is Green: Nedbank, and Impact Investing in Africa
Green is now, and the future, in health, food, lifestyle, and economics; and no bank or investor can ignore it. Nedbank has gone ahead of rest of the pack to be top in South Africa. In February 2020, Euromoney awarded Nedbank Private Wealth the second-best bank in the...
Bankability: Economic Development and the Project Facilitation Fund
The unmistakeable iTowers is a symbol of modernisation and economic development in Botswana. A host to businesses, hotels and government offices, the iTowers speak of the country's ability to rise in all aspects of socioeconomic development with grace. In order for...
Financial Accounting for Growth of SMEs with NRB
(South Africa) - NRB Accounting makes Financial Accounting easier, faster, and most importantly, cost effective. NRB Accounting is an Accounting firm established at the beginning of 2018 with its primary focus on financial services to clients; these services ranging...
Dambisa Moyo: The Global Economist
(Zambia) - There is a great Zambian woman that must be celebrated, as her contribution to the global economy cannot be ignored – Dr Dambisa Moyo, an influencer with over a million followers on LinkedIn. Dambisa Moyo, PhD, is a global economist who sits on the boards...
Djibouti’s Sovereign wealth fund — market impact the business case for decision-makers
Djibouti launches a sovereign wealth fund consolidating port, telecoms and energy assets under one mandate. Fikiria weighs the capital stack and bankability.
Djibouti’s Sovereign wealth fund — regional opportunity — why it matters for investors
Djibouti’s new sovereign wealth fund turns a trade chokepoint into a potential portfolio. Fikiria weighs the regional investment case and risks for investors.
HIPC decision point in Somalia — market impact how the market shifts across the region
Somalia reaches the HIPC decision point on 25 March 2020, unlocking US$5.2bn in debt relief and a path back into formal concessional capital.
Kigali financial centre in Rwanda — regional opportunity what comes next for investors
Kigali’s new financial centre hands East African investors a fresh structuring jurisdiction. What the opportunity, the regional contest and the next steps are.
Kigali financial centre in Rwanda — market impact the business case across East Africa
Kigali International Financial Centre opens as Rwanda’s bid to domicile African fund capital: what its structure, risk and bankability mean for investors.
Kigali Innovation City in Rwanda — capital structure what comes next across the region
Kigali Innovation City’s public-private financing decides who carries the risk; the test for Rwanda is whether local capital can enter the stack.
Ethiopia’s Homegrown economic reform — capital structure what comes next for investors
Ethiopia’s reform shifts financing from state to private capital: funding gap, currency premium, sector access and the bankability test investors must weigh.
Colluli potash investment in Eritrea — capital structure what comes next for investors
AFC’s US$50m Colluli stake fills the hardest layer of a frontier capital stack, moving Eritrea’s potash resource toward bankability without removing its risks.
AfCFTA operational launch in East Africa — capital structure the business case to test
AfCFTA’s launch activates a cross-border payments mechanism — cutting settlement cost and reshaping trade-finance risk for East African exporters.
Privacy law enacted in Uganda — capital structure the business case across East Africa
Uganda’s Data Protection and Privacy Act reprices data as a balance-sheet asset, reshaping compliance costs, bankability and access to capital.
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