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Abdul Samad Rabiu was named CEO of the Year at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali and challenged African leaders to stop talking and start executing at scale.
Appolinaire Compaoré, founder of Planor Afrique and one of Burkina Faso's most powerful businessmen, died on May 14 in Ouagadougou at 73.
Kenny Fihla has raided Rothschild, Standard Bank, and Deutsche Bank to rebuild Absa's senior bench. What the most aggressive hiring spree in African banking tells us about the South African push for deal leadership.
Aliko Dangote rejects NNPC bid to raise its stake in the $20 billion Lekki refinery; Sunil Mittal bets $2.9 billion on African telecoms; Ogunlesi-BlackRock back South Africa with $28 billion; Kenny Fihla rebuilds Absa into Africa's deal bank.
The May 4 NCBA disclosure has surfaced the Kenyatta family's institutional cap table for the first time. A full Wealth Intelligence map across banking, dairy, hospitality, media, land, and Northlands City.
Norway's $1.9 trillion sovereign wealth fund acquires 5 percent of Patrice Motsepe's ARM; Femi Otedola adds $31.6 million in FirstHoldCo shares; Equity's James Mwangi names three barriers Africa must fix.
CNN Portugal has renewed focus on Alvaro Sobrinho and the disappearance of billions from BES Angola, reviving scrutiny of one of Lusophone Africa's biggest financial scandals.
BUA Group chairman Abdul Samad Rabiu says African governments are protecting rent-seekers over producers, using a blocked Mali sugar deal as his evidence.
Arthur Eze's Oranto Petroleum has lost block B3 in South Sudan after Juba refused to renew the permit over a lack of mandatory work on the site.
Karooooo posted record subscription revenue and adjusted EPS in FY2026, with Cartrack South Africa accelerating to 23% ARR growth and a 20% dividend increase declared.
Mohammed Dewji's MeTL Group plans a Sh6.5 billion ($50 million) soft drinks factory in Mombasa to sell Mo Cola at Sh15 a bottle, directly challenging Coca-Cola's dominance in East Africa's biggest economy.
Aliko Dangote's decision to lean toward Mombasa over Tanzania's Tanga port for a $15-17 billion East African refinery is the public crystallization of a regional political rift building for weeks.
Macron's $27 billion Nairobi summit is the deliberate end of Françafrique and the substitution of private-sector European capital for the public-sector colonial architecture that preceded it.
Aliko Dangote anchors Macron's $27 billion Nairobi summit and confirms Mombasa as his preferred $17 billion East African refinery site; Sawiris reorganizes Orascom for the $50 billion Abu Dhabi platform.
Ghana's Supreme Court has dismissed Ecobank Ghana's final legal attempt to avoid paying compound interest to investor Daniel Ofori in a dispute that began in 2008.
Algeria is attempting to sell a Barcelona hotel belonging to jailed billionaire Ali Haddad, but a pre-existing contract is blocking the transaction, French-language reporting confirms.
