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Naguib Sawiris has added $400 million to his gold investments since the start of the current geopolitical tensions, while cutting Egypt real estate and expanding in the UAE.
A KwaZulu-Natal lobby group has entered Tokyo Sexwale's name in the race to succeed Cyril Ramaphosa as ANC president ahead of the party's 2027 elective conference.
Nassef Sawiris has formally closed his London family office NNS Advisers, completing a multi-step UK departure triggered by the end of the non-dom tax regime.
Dangote offers to build East Africa a refinery matching his Lagos plant's scale, Mansour's Palm Hills launches a city-scale luxury project on Egypt's coast, Benjelloun opens Morocco's tallest tower after eight years, and Wiese's stake in Blue Ribbon owner is diluted after a R6 billion food deal.
Morocco's tallest building, a $700 million rocket-shaped skyscraper backed by billionaire Othman Benjelloun, has opened in Sale after 8 years of construction.
Aliko Dangote has offered to build a refinery in Tanzania matching his Lagos plant's scale, with Kenya and Uganda backing the plan at a Nairobi infrastructure summit.
Nathan Kirsh is about to become the most liquid billionaire Africa has ever produced. The $29.1 billion Sysco deal will generate approximately $17 billion in personal proceeds — and the question every private bank in southern Africa is asking is where it goes.
Dangote says every African should own a share in his refinery IPO, Otedola's FirstHoldCo surges 32 percent to lead Nigeria's bank stocks, and Benedict Peters deploys three aircraft to map Madagascar's minerals for free.
VistaJet has invoked international treaty law to recover 2 Bombardier Global 5000 jets from Anil Ambani's Reliance Transport unit, which denies any payment default.
Johann Rupert's Remgro has sold another R3.6 billion stake in FirstRand, extending a six-year exit from South Africa's biggest banking group as it reshapes its portfolio toward private assets.
Masiyiwa's Liquid retires a $620 million bond and raises $300 million fresh, Tosyali launches a $2.5 billion Algeria steel push, Samih Sawiris deploys $235 million into Morocco tourism with Emirati partners, and Dangote Sugar shareholders approve a N500 billion rights issue.
Egyptian billionaire Samih Sawiris has joined UAE-based Al Nowais Investments and Egypt's Sunrise Group to deploy $235 million into a coastal tourism project in Essaouira, Morocco.
The FTSE upgrade, the Dangote IPO, Seplat's N10,000 milestone, and a $4.61 trillion banking recapitalization all landed in the same month — we map how the infrastructure being built now will outlast any single listing.
Dangote's refinery fights a crude squeeze as Nigeria ships 55.39 million barrels, a court lifts the EFCC shield on Nestoil Group's $1 billion debt dispute, and Mike Adenuga turns 73 — plus our new Investor Memo maps how the Iran war is repricing every African upstream asset in real time.
A Nigerian court has vacated injunctions protecting Amaranta Oil and Jonescreek Hydrocarbon from EFCC scrutiny in a $1 billion Nestoil Group debt dispute.
