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2026-09-14 · Semafor · Economy/Business

Dangote launches Africa’s largest ever IPO

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2026-09-12 · Semafor · Economy/Business

Dangote Refinery braced for IPO

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2026-10-30 · Semafor · Sports

Africa Cup of Nations U-turn on four-year cycle

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2026-09-30 · Semafor · Economy/Business

Burkina Faso opens first gold refinery

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2026-11-02 · Semafor · Technology

Kenya’s mobile subscriber base grows amid rising broadband demand

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2026-11-02 · Semafor · World

Africa needs urban planning investment to deal with rapid city growth

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2026-08-31 · Semafor

🔮 For his part, Tinubu has backed a law that will allow Nigerian states to set up their own police departments, and tasked a security committee with drafting a five-year “strategic defence operations plan.” assertive

2026-09-04 · Semafor

🔮 South African drugmaker Aspen Pharmacare said the rollout of its weight-loss drugs will help drive a 17% rise in earnings next year. assertive

2026-09-05 · Semafor

🔮 After the flood of commentary set off by Uber’s seemingly abrupt exit, Nigerians will return to what they did in the previous instances of high-profile multinational departures: adapt to the substitute. assertive

2026-09-06 · Semafor

🔮 The opposition African Democratic Congress said it will anchor its campaign on a promise to reinstate the multibillion-dollar program, whose removal three years ago drove up food and transportation prices to create a cost-of-living crisis that still persists in Africa’s most populous country. assertive

2026-09-07 · Semafor

🔮 The company, which began offering new cars to Nigerian Uber drivers five years ago with a payment plan tied to daily earnings, is set to leave the country as Uber’s shock exit makes its business untenable, a person with knowledge of the plans said. assertive

2026-09-07 · Semafor

🔮 The company, whose 700,000 barrels-a-day oil plant is Africa’s largest, is set to raise about $1.6 billion. assertive

2026-09-07 · Semafor

🔮 S&P Global Ratings downgraded Senegal’s long-term foreign currency rating, citing a high chance that the country will default on its debt following an agreement reached with the IMF for a $2.2 billion loan. assertive

2026-09-11 · Semafor

🔮 The News Nigerian healthcare investors are positioning to take advantage of untapped commercial opportunities in a sector that new research says will generate more than $50 billion in sales by the end of the decade. mixed

2026-09-12 · Semafor

🔮 The initial public offering of the Dangote Refinery in Nigeria will open on Monday, in what is set to be the largest debut on any African stock exchange. assertive

2026-09-14 · Semafor

🔮 When the initial offer closes next month, the company will have raised more than $4 billion at about a $50 billion valuation, if demand matches the year-long buzz partly driven by the company’s pledge to pay dividends in US dollars. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 “Pay had to be subsidized to make drivers willing to take rides. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 But it remains unclear where the planned refinery in Lamu, which Dangote aims to complete by 2030, will secure its feedstock from: Kenya imports nearly all of its oil from the Middle East. mixed

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 Enhanced domestic refining capacity has reduced Africa’s biggest crude oil producer’s longstanding dependence on fuel imports, and that capacity is set to increase further with Dangote’s plans to double output to 1.4 million barrels per day. assertive

2026-09-18 · Semafor

🔮 Nigeria Labour Congress, the top national union of government employees, warned on Wednesday that rising fuel prices risked imposing “incalculable damage” on wages, and could cause household expenses at the beginning of a new school year to rise sharply alongside higher transport costs. assertive

2026-09-21 · Semafor

🔮 Usage gaps in Niger, Rwanda, and Uganda are among the highest in the continent, but halving the gaps in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and DR Congo alone will bring 170 million more Africans online, according to Partnership for Digital Access in Africa, a non-profit aimed at driving up internet connectivity, and global telecom association GSMA. mixed

2026-09-22 · Semafor

🔮 The News US drone logistics company Zipline will expand a three-year pilot program to deliver health supplies to a third of the Ivorian population over the next eight years, the latest sign that African governments are increasingly comfortable with using drones to provide social services. assertive

2026-09-22 · Semafor

🔮 Digital economy and communications minister Bosun Tijani said the $2 billion project, which was initially set to take five years, is at the core of Nigeria’s plan to connect 40 million people without internet access. assertive

2026-09-30 · Semafor

🔮 The new refinery on the island of Lamu is set to be completed in 2030, ultimately refining 700,000 barrels a day. assertive

2026-10-16 · Semafor

🔮 The firm’s new facility with Sterling Bank will offer loans of up to $1 million per business in an attempt to help the enterprises secure larger and longer-tenor capital. assertive

2026-10-16 · Semafor

🔮 Africa’s largest initial public offering is set to take a more pan-African shape with the Dangote Refinery’s push to extend the sale of its shares to Egypt. assertive

2026-10-19 · Semafor

🔮 But his government’s introduction of a short-term petrol price discount this month to counter rising costs driven by the Iran war has reignited the debate as to whether a subsidy would make a more lasting return. assertive

2026-10-28 · Semafor

🔮 The News A Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded two billion-dollar African startups and was a founding investor in a third is making another bold bet: that African software engineers will fill the rising global demand for AI talent. assertive

2026-10-30 · Semafor

🔮 The Africa Cup of Nations, the continent’s top football competition, will continue to be held biennially, reversing a plan to introduce a four-year cycle put forward by the Confederation of African Football. assertive

2026-11-02 · Semafor

🔮 Africa’s urban population is projected to nearly double to 1.7 billion by 2050, with Luanda, Lagos, and Kinshasa expected to lead the growth. assertive

2026-11-02 · Semafor

🔮 -Pesa, the Safaricom-owned money transfer service, laid the groundwork for Kenya’s place as an African tech hub, but faster connections are set to open up new possibilities in the country: Kenyans bought more than a million 5G subscriptions in 2025, a 71.7% year-on-year increase. mixed