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Dis-Chem faces growing boycott calls after shareholder Mark Saltzman clashed with journalist Redi Tlhabi on social media over Palestine posts, drawing public anger at the pharmacy chain.
Equity Group CEO James Mwangi told Reuters the bank is targeting acquisitions in Angola, Zambia and Mozambique as it follows the Lobito Corridor trade route south.
Tanzania's president met Dangote in Dar es Salaam after losing the refinery to Mombasa; Nigeria's pension regulator clears pension funds for the Dangote refinery IPO; Motsepe's GoTyme Bank eyes $15 billion listing.
Sudhir Ruparelia was expelled from Uganda at 16 with nothing, worked in UK factories to survive, then returned in 1985 with $25,000 and built the country's largest business empire worth $1.2 billion.
Japan's Asahi Group Holdings has won capital-markets clearance in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda for its $2.3 billion takeover of East African Breweries from Diageo.
Daniel McKorley's McDan Group has rejected Ghana Airports Company Limited's warning against developing a contested 16-acre Spintex parcel as the appeal pushes ahead.
Abdelmadjid Kerrar was building factories and trading with China before most Algerians thought about Asia. Then he built the country's biggest pharma company.
Ghana wants 30% of every gold ounce its industrial miners produce, up from 20%, as the central bank rebuilds reserves. The miners aren't sold.
William Tewiah's 80% stake in ZEN Petroleum is worth GHS 3.87 billion, making him Ghana's wealthiest individual stockholder, overthrowing Daniel Ofori.
William Tewiah left a career in London finance and drove his own fuel tankers to Ghana's gold mines. He built an empire doing it.
The National Pension Commission has waived its own rules to let pension funds back the Dangote refinery's share sale, the largest in Nigeria's history
Femi Otedola's Making It Big has been shortlisted for the 2026 BCA African Business Book of the Year, with the winner announced in London on July 3.
Chen Hongliang's Huayou Cobalt has agreed to acquire Atlantic Lithium for $210 million in an all-cash deal, securing Ghana's first parliamentary-ratified lithium mine and extending China's critical minerals reach into West Africa.
King Mohammed VI is Africa's wealthiest monarch. Through Al Mada, he controls a sprawling empire stretching from Casablanca's biggest bank to EV battery plants.
Beninese billionaire Sébastien Ajavon built West Africa's largest frozen poultry empire before falling out with Patrice Talon and going into political exile in France.
Koos Bekker's luxury Somerset eco-resort charges up to £1,000 a night and markets itself on its gardens and nature ethos. Critics say it is using weedkiller on its grounds.