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Import competition and rising energy costs squeezed margins. Management's answer was vertical integration.

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A new generation of operators is betting that trucks, warehouses and software can fix an old problem.

Prime residential prices have climbed despite the macro gloom. Brokers explain who is buying.

An investigation into federal and state allocations since the subsidy was removed.

Kilimanjaro Telecom's mobile-money ambitions test the boundary between telcos and lenders.

Short fund cycles have mismatched Africa's opportunity. It is time for a different model.

The Abuja-based manager is targeting family-owned businesses ready to professionalise.

Tier-one lenders pushed the all-share index to a new high this week.

Mini-grids are no longer a development project. They are a business, and OkraGrid is proving it.

The Kano consumer-goods group is reinventing its distribution for a younger, urban customer.

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Why the Port Harcourt producer is betting its future on domestic gas and power.

A video tour of the founders, investors and ideas driving East Africa's tech scene.

Heritage, craft and discretion are replacing logos among the continent's wealthiest buyers.

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Johannesburg's oldest miner is reshaping a portfolio built for a different century.

Nearshoring has handed Egyptian factories an opening. Can they hold it?

A small company in a small market is selling into three continents.

Micro-premiums, agent networks and mobile money are rewriting an industry.

Credit, inputs and offtake in one contract. The default rate will decide everything.

Developers are discovering that renting to a middle class is harder than selling to the rich.

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Subscriptions, events and audio: inside a Nairobi publisher's model.

Transmission, not generation, is where Ghana's power problem lives.

₦20 trillion in assets is changing who sets prices on the exchange.

Founders are raising again, at valuations that assume discipline.

A plain reading of the changes that matter to finance directors.

Cloud demand is colliding with a power system already under strain.

Treasury teams have stopped forecasting a single rate.

Accra is back in the market. Pricing tells the real story.

Billions in commitments have landed. Execution is the hard part.

Foot traffic is recovering, but tenant mix is changing permanently.

Regulation is ready. Depth is not, yet.

Our editors' picks from more than 600 nominations across the continent.

Standardised systems are doing what capital alone could not.

Six finance chiefs on scenario planning, hedging and saying no.

A generation of founders is handing over. Most have no plan.

Digital literacy in the boardroom is now a governance issue.

African founders keep looking to New York. The argument for Lagos and Nairobi is stronger than it was.

Behind consumer apps, an unglamorous layer decides who survives.

Attack volumes have doubled. So have budgets.

A filmed conversation on credit, climate and distribution.

Our weekly audio briefing on African markets.

Charter demand, fleet age and who is actually flying.

Operators are signing rooms faster than cities can absorb them.

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