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Zimbabwe’s US$900m Chirundu Upgrade Meets a Rising Copperbelt Freight Cycle

Zimbabwe has secured funding for a massive US$900 million rehabilitation of the Harare to Chirundu Highway and the modernization of the Chirundu Border Post. This strategic investment aims to capture

Aug 20, 2026
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South Africa Moves On Power Prices As Zimbabwe Rebuilds ZESA

South Africa is extending its electricity recovery into the price paid for power, with government proposing a 10-year tariff trajectory as part of broader reforms to the country’s electricity market.

 Aug 19, 2026
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Zambia's Continuity Vote Settles One Question and Opens Another

Hichilema secures a second term decisively. Whether that mandate converts into the stability business actually needs is the test now beginning. Zambia Election 2026, Hakainde Hichilema, Brian Mundubil

 Aug 18, 2026
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Kenya Licensing Controls Cut Hippo Sugar Exports 59%, Raises Dependence on Zimbabwe Market

Hippo Valley Estates, Zimbabwe’s biggest sugar producer and exporter has registered a  59% fall in sugar exports in first quarter sugar, providing the first major test of how Zimbabwe’s sugar industry

 Aug 17, 2026
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Gold Market Deepens to US$373bn Daily Liquidity: Harare Flirts with Another Record Year

Gold's position inside investment portfolios is increasingly difficult to reconcile with the way commodity indices still treat it. 20 years of returns, US$373 billion in daily liquidity and a dispropo

 Aug 16, 2026
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Old Mutual VFEX debut settles within 1% of JSE parity after open price discovery

The scale of the JSE market remains an important reference for assessing depth. Old Mutual traded 19.9 million shares worth about R251.8 million on the JSE on Wednesday. The VFEX line is starting with

 Aug 13, 2026
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Glencore Joins Fight for Sherritt: Sanctions Crisis Puts Canadian Refinery at Centre of Control Battle

A consortium including Glencore has submitted a rival recapitalisation proposal for Sherritt International, opening a contest for control of a financially distressed Canadian nickel and cobalt company

 Aug 11, 2026
Nvidia Moves Beyond Chips as AI Infrastructure Financing Enters a New Phase

Nvidia is considering a financing guarantee of up to US$250 billion that moves the world's largest artificial intelligence chipmaker beyond supplying processors into underwriting the infrastructure t

Jul 27, 2026
Kenya’s Tourism Model Offers a Blueprint for Higher Value Growth

* Kenya’s tourism boom is lifting aviation, hospitality, finance, technology and construction together. * Zimbabwe already sits on the same regional tourism corridor through Victoria Falls. * The ne

Jul 27, 2026
Tigere Premium Raises the Accretion Bar Unit growth now tests whether income keeps pace

That gap traces to two specific acquisition financed unit placements, not to Tigere’s scrip dividend programme, which only reached unitholders as a notice due for publication in the week of July 20, 2

Jul 21, 2026
No Dollars, No Fuel: Mozambique's Crisis Reveals New Energy Risk

Mozambique has established a US$50 million foreign currency payment facility to restore nationwide fuel supplies after months of shortages caused by US dollar liquidity constraints that prevented dist

Jul 10, 2026

DRC Tests Cobalt Pricing Power, Export Quota Failure Threatens US$1.1bn Supply

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s attempt to control cobalt exports has entered its first major test after a government customs system failure threatened up to 20,000 tonnes of shipments worth circa

Jul 06, 2026

Why Investors Are Increasingly Choosing Kenya

Absa Group, South Africa's third-largest bank by assets, has launched a KES30.9 billion (US$238 million) offer to increase its stake in Absa Bank Kenya from 68.5% to as much as 85%, placing one of Afr

Jun 23, 2026

Zimbabwe Still Outpaces Sub-Saharan Africa’s Average Despite World Bank Growth Downgrade

The World Bank's June 2026 Global Economic Prospects report has placed Zimbabwe's 2026 GDP growth at 4.6%, a downward revision from the 5% projected in its January 2026 edition, with a further easing

Jun 16, 2026

Gold on the Edge: What World Gold Council’s June Outlook Means for Zimbabwe

Gold has closed May 2026 at USD 4,546 per troy ounce, a 1.4% monthly decline, according to the World Gold Council. The metal finished lower in most major currencies, with the exceptions of India and T

Jun 08, 2026

Zimbabwe Records Biggest Manufacturing Growth in Southern Africa: But Slips in AfDB Industrialisation Rankings

The African Development Bank's Africa Industrialisation Index 2025, which ranks all 54 African countries on the depth, quality, and diversification of their industrial development, has delivered a ver

Jun 01, 2026

Zambia Rejects $2B US Health Carrot: Haimbe Exposes Secret 'Minerals-for-Medicine' Link

Zambia's Foreign Minister Mulambo Haimbe has disclosed on 4 May 2026 that negotiations with the United States over two proposed bilateral agreements, a health cooperation framework worth up to USD 2 b

May 05, 2026

Gold Sets New Q1 Price Record: Lifts Zimbabwe Even as Production Underwhelms

The LBMA gold price has set a new quarterly average record of USD 4,873 per ounce in the first quarter of 2026, having hit an all-time historical high of USD 5,405 per ounce in January before a notabl

May 05, 2026

Dangote Refinery to Supply Fuel to Ethiopian Airlines Directly

The global aviation industry is entering a period of adjustment driven by energy market dynamics. Rising fuel costs, supply uncertainties, and shifting demand patterns are forcing airlines to rethink

May 04, 2026