Business and Economy

Ghana’s National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has begun stakeholder consultations on a new draft bill that seeks to overhaul the country’s legal and regulatory framework for the petroleum downstream sector. The …

Namibia has secured the right to host the prestigious Egmont Group Plenary in July 2027, after Cabinet granted approval for the country’s Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) to organize the global …

The High Court of Zimbabwe has ordered the eviction of businessman Taremedzwa Kapungu, his agents, employees, and all persons linked to him, from a 65.24-hectare land belonging to Windmill (Private) …

In Maseru, the capital city of Lesotho, a new partnership has been formed to tackle one of the country’s most pressing social problems – gender-based violence (GBV). Vodacom Lesotho, a …

Lesotho’s oldest milling company, Lesotho Flour Mills (LFM), is once again in the spotlight for the wrong reasons after management informed staff of fresh retrenchment plans that could see about …

The Government of Zimbabwe has unveiled a new strategy to boost the growth and transformation of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in 2026, with clear plans to provide training, …

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has introduced fresh measures to control the way large companies withdraw foreign currency from banks, following growing concern that the practice was putting pressure on …

Artists and artisans in Uganda have been encouraged to take advantage of indigenous materials such as barkcloth to gain access to the United States market and grow their businesses globally. …

Gold prices in Libya have recorded new increases, with a slight rise in scrap and cast gold, but a significant and unprecedented jump in the prices of new and used …

In my coverage of Nigeria’s fintech sector, three brands keep coming up in conversations with business owners, freelancers, and payment experts — Paystack, Flutterwave, and PayPal. Each of them has …