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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.
Ibrahim Mahama, CEO of Engineers and Planners, has pledged to build Astroturfs across Damang communities following his company's takeover of the Damang Mine.
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.
Shareholders of Aliko Dangote's sugar company have approved a N500 billion rights issue, one of the largest in Nigerian corporate history, to fund backward integration and expansion.
Kanye West's European tour has unraveled across four countries, with the UK, France, Poland and Switzerland all rejecting the rapper over his history of antisemitic remarks.
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.
Dave Chappelle spent $15 million buying and renovating an 1870s Ohio schoolhouse to save his hometown's public radio station from relocating.
Godfrey Kirumira started trading cigarettes at 12 on the streets of Kampala. Today he chairs the club of Uganda's richest tycoons.
French prosecutors summoned Elon Musk for a Paris interview on April 20, pressing their criminal probe into X's handling of illegal content.
Aliko Dangote is expanding his Lagos refinery into high-margin chemicals including polypropylene, fertiliser and detergent ingredients as he targets 1.4 million barrels per day.
Johann Rupert's Richemont has freed up €4.9 billion in capital, sending the luxury world into speculation about a potential blockbuster acquisition.
Robert Gumede's Vision Sugar Group won court breathing room on April 17 to finalize a rescue plan for Tongaat Hulett, staving off liquidation.
Nigeria exported 55.39 million barrels of crude in January and February while Aliko Dangote's 650,000-barrel-a-day refinery scrambled to close a feedstock shortfall.
Nigerian billionaire Mike Adenuga turns 73 on April 29, marking more than four decades of bold bets across telecom, oil and gas, and banking.
Weak cotton prices and a disappointing 2025 harvest are blocking Cameroon billionaire Baba Danpullo's bid to exit his minority stake in Sodecoton.