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MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita earned a record R99.3 million in 2025, a 53% increase, as Nigeria's dramatic turnaround powered the group's strongest year in decades.
Rapper Ye is building a 60,000-seat 'Eagle Stadium' in Albania for a July tour stop after the UK, France, Poland and Switzerland blocked his shows.
UAE-based African Rail Co. is raising $170 million to buy locomotives and wagons for South Africa's newly privatized freight rail network, targeting the Durban and Mozambique corridors.
Ibrahim Mahama's Engineers and Planners has disbursed $2 million of its $5 million pledge to Ghana's Black Stars World Cup fundraising campaign, the largest single corporate commitment to the drive.
Tshepo Mahloele will collect $22 million from Capitec's record R9.27 billion dividend, despite recently selling $840 million worth of shares and cutting his stake to 3.85%.
Joe Lewis is targeting more than $200 million at Sotheby's London in June with masterpieces by Klimt, Modigliani and Freud, making it the most valuable single-owner sale in London's history.
Arthur Eze loses another oil block as South Sudan strips Oranto of Block B3, Koos Bekker loses $500 million as Naspers and Prosus slide 24%, Dangote Cement posts $233 million in Q1 profit, and BUA Foods grows Q1 profit to $103 million even as revenue falls 11%.
Mike Adenuga turned 73. He has positioned Bella Disu as his successor — but the rest of his empire remains the most opaque continuity plan among Africa's top fortunes. We map the holdings and what the market still does not know.
Gauteng's ultra-wealthy are not choosing between Johannesburg and Cape Town. They are keeping R20-R40 million Joburg primary homes and buying R60 million coastal retreats alongside them.
Koos Bekker has lost nearly $500 million in 2026 as Naspers and Prosus shares fell more than 24%, erasing a January peak.
BUA Cement shares surged 24.8% in 4 trading days, adding N2.7 trillion ($1.95 billion) to Abdul Samad Rabiu's stake value after Q1 profit more than doubled to N176 billion.
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South Sudan has declined to renew Oranto Petroleum's Block B3 licence after Arthur Eze's company failed to conduct seismic surveys, drill a single well or meet financial obligations since 2017.
Patrick Bitature called hotels a "laundry business" in a viral video and was immediately met with scepticism from Ugandans who pointed to his unresolved $10 million debt dispute over hotel assets.
Aliko Dangote's fortune climbed to $34 billion this week, lifted by his industrial empire and bold new refinery ambitions across the African continent.
KoBold Metals, backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman, has broken ground on the $2.5 billion Mingomba copper mine in Zambia and committed $50 million to Congo lithium exploration.