One Million: How the DSE Is Chasing a Landmark Investor Target
Most of Tanzania's wealth never touches a stock account. Land, livestock, informal trade and bank deposits hold the savings of tens of millions of people, while the formal equity market reaches only a sliver of them. That gap is the backdrop to the Dar es Salaam Stock...
Bottle Tax: How Kenya’s 35-Percent Glass Duty Sparked an EAC Trade Row
Kenya has spent years championing a single East African market, then drafted a budget that taxes one. The Finance Bill proposes a 35 percent excise duty on glass bottles imported from EAC partner states, reversing an exemption granted in 2021 and reopening a question...
Customs Lines: How Kenya Designated New SEZ Zones Under the EAC Act
A special economic zone is only as special as its customs line. Without a clearly defined customs area, the tax holidays and duty deferrals that draw investors to an SEZ have no enforceable boundary, and the zone becomes a policy promise rather than an operating...
Six Pacts: How the Ruto-Ramaphosa Summit Deepened Kenya–South Africa Trade
Africa's two largest economies south of the Sahara trade more in rhetoric about continental integration than in goods with each other. Kenya and South Africa sit at opposite ends of the AfCFTA's promise and, until recently, well short of its potential. A June 2026...
Finance Bill 2026: How Kenya Aims to Raise KSh 3.5 Trillion from a Digital Tax Net
Every government wants a wider tax base; few want to be seen widening it. Kenya's Finance Bill 2026 makes the ambition explicit. It sets out to raise KSh 3.533 trillion, and it does so not by inventing a single headline tax but by reaching into the corners of the...
One Million: How the DSE Is Chasing a Landmark Investor Target
The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange aims to lift its investor base from 740,000 to one million, driven by youth and mobile trading — what it means for Tanzania.
Recovery Rally: How DSE Equity Turnover Rebounded 14 Percent in Week 13
The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange saw equity turnover up 14.38% and volume up 44.07% in Week 13 as bonds fell and the Industrial index gained 0.82%.
Short Week, Big Gains: How the DSE Lifted Capitalisation 2.91 Percent in Week 15
The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange lifted market capitalisation 2.91% in Week 15 despite lower turnover on a short week, a fundamentals-led gain for the DSE.
Numida: A Ugandan Lender Wagers on Relationships in Kenya’s Crowded Credit Market
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...
Trade finance: the quiet plumbing behind Africa’s exports to China
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.
CADFund: The state vehicle quietly underwriting China’s Africa investments
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.
Industrial Parks as Gateways: Ethiopia’s FDI Bet, Measured at the Exit
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.
Green Industrial Chains: A US$700 Million Fund Bets on Africa Keeping the Value
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
Clean-Energy Contracting: RMB 21 Billion in Revenue, and a Question of Whose
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
Uganda Airlines Boeing order in Uganda — customer adoption the risks and opportunities
Follow the capital, not the metal: how Uganda Airlines’ ten-aircraft Boeing order is financed decides its currency risk, bankability and who pays.
DRC IMF and Eurobond reset in DRC — market impact the business case across East Africa
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.
DRC IMF and Eurobond reset in DRC — regional opportunity what comes next for investors
The DRC’s first Eurobond, welcomed by the IMF alongside resilient growth, widens financing options for infrastructure and reprices frontier African debt.
$2.33bn SGR financing in Tanzania — regional opportunity what comes next for investors
Tanzania’s $2.33bn SGR syndicated facility sketches a repeatable financing template and points regional investors to the corridor’s buyable adjacent businesses.
$2.33bn SGR financing in Tanzania — market impact the business case across East Africa
Standard Chartered’s $2.33bn syndicated facility for Tanzania’s SGR shows how East Africa assembles global capital, and where local firms can enter the stack.
Nimule e-permit reset in South Sudan — capital structure what comes next for investors
South Sudan’s Nimule e-permit reform re-dates working capital along the corridor, turning a border delay into a balance-sheet event and a lending opportunity.
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