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Africa Thinks Here
On-the-ground business intelligence in East Africa, since October 2019.
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Kenya does not lack for lenders. It lacks the right ones. That distinction sits at the centre of Numida's formal entry into the country, and it is the argument its Chief Operating Officer, Lorraine Mutambiranwa, has come to Nairobi to make. The Ugandan fintech...
Tariffs and protocols open the market, but a shipment only sails when someone finances it. The credit, insurance and bonds behind African exports rarely make headlines, yet they decide who can trade.
A China Development Bank fund built to coax Chinese firms into Africa has committed roughly US$7.6bn across 39 countries. Its job is less to spend than to make others spend.
Ethiopia’s parks pulled in record FDI and tens of thousands of jobs. The IFC’s diagnostic is admiring and wary in the same breath: the gateway works, but the road past it is congested.
A China-Africa Green Industrial Chain fund of about RMB 5 billion, with seven early projects approved, signals a next-phase pitch: not just power, but the supply chains around it – and the value they
China reports RMB 21.18 billion in contracted clean-energy project revenue since the Beijing Summit. The figure is real – the open question is how much of that contracting value lands in African
Follow the capital, not the metal: how Uganda Airlines’ ten-aircraft Boeing order is financed decides its currency risk, bankability and who pays.
As the IMF backs resilient growth and the DRC’s first Eurobond, a look at funding structure, currency risk and whether Congolese firms can enter the stack.
The DRC’s first Eurobond, welcomed by the IMF alongside resilient growth, widens financing options for infrastructure and reprices frontier African debt.