Zimbabwe Crosses $50 Billion
Zimbabwe's GDP hits $52.4 billion after ZIMSTAT rebasing. Largest SADC economy outside South Africa. What the new number means for debt, policy, and Vision 2030.
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The AERC Distinguished Service Award and what it reveals about intellectual capital as political power
Mthuli Ncube's AERC Distinguished Service Award reveals 30 years of intellectual infrastructure that trained 4,000 economists across Africa's central banks and treasuries.
38 Countries That Extended A President — What Worked & What Collapsed
94 presidents extended their terms. 78% succeeded. Some built transformation. Some triggered coups. Zimbabwe is Number 39. Here is the data.
South Africa Disinvited From G7 as Kenya Takes the Seat: The 11 Power Plays Reshaping Africa Today
France says no US pressure. Ramaphosa's spokesperson says otherwise. Ghana wins historic UN slavery resolution. Zimbabwe confirms 15 citizens killed fighting for Russia. The continent's political chessboard is moving fast.
The Man Who Scaled M-PESA to 60 Million Customers Now Runs Absa's Retail Empire
Sitoyo Lopokoiyit built Africa's largest fintech. Now he takes charge of one of its biggest banks. The implications for continental finance are enormous.
Iran Rejects Peace Talks and Oil Surges Past $108: The 11 Stories Moving African Money Today
Brent crude spikes as Tehran walks away. Gold crashes 21% from January highs. SARB holds. Afreximbank launches trade tech accelerator. The continent's treasury desks are watching closely.
Tagwireyi, Rudland, Matinyarare — The Connection That Never Existed and the Agenda It Threatens
Three men. One fabricated association. A political science autopsy of how Zimbabwe misreads the relationship between party capital, private enterprise, and activist freelancing — and why it matters for 2030.
94 Presidents Extended Their Terms. 78% Succeeded. Nobody Will Show You This Data. I Will
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Zambia 2026: How Hichilema Is Building an Unbeatable Coalition While the Opposition Fragments
The PF just elected a new leader. It does not matter. Hichilema has already absorbed three opposition parties, expanded parliament by 113 seats, and polls at 60%. This is coalition mathematics, not democracy.
11 Funding Opportunities Open Right Now for African Founders, NGOs, and Entrepreneurs
From Google's $350K cloud credits to Katapult's $500K climate investments. Deadlines range from March 27 to May 1. Here is what is open, who qualifies, and where to apply.
The 10 Largest African Economies in 2026: Who Is Rising, Who Is Stalling, and Why It Matters
Africa's combined GDP will reach $3.32 trillion in 2026. These 10 countries account for 68% of that output. The rankings reveal which reforms are working and which resource models are failing.
The Truth About Tino Machakaire's Money
He started as a carpenter at 17. Drove someone else's truck in South Africa. Built a fleet from one vehicle. The banks backed him. The courts proved his critics wrong. So why does Zimbabwe treat his success like a crime scene?
Hakainde Hichilema Just Turned Zambia Into Africa's First 24-Hour Economy
President of Zambia since August 2021. The man who restructured Zambia's $13 billion debt default, the first African sovereign to complete the G20 Common Framework process. Now he has done something no sitting African president has attempted at scale.
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Trump's War, Mnangagwa's Constitution, and the 5 Power Plays Reshaping Africa This Morning
Trump's war exposed. Mnangagwa's constitution advances. Congo's drone war escalates. The 11 power plays reshaping Africa today.
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The War on Energy: $110 Oil, $20 Billion in Qatari Damage, and Who Is Getting Rich While Africa Burns
Brent at $110. Zimbabwe fuel up 39%. Who profits from the arbitrage? PowerList names winners, losers and the next move.
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Hormuz Shock Threatens Africa's Disinflation Gains: The 11 Stories Moving Money Today
Oil at $114, fertiliser up 30%, and central banks across Africa rethinking rate cuts. What treasuries and CEOs need to know this morning.
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How Prof. Mthuli Ncube Engineered Zimbabwe's Fastest Economic Growth in 14 Years
Everyone has an opinion about Zimbabwe's economy. Almost nobody examines the actual fiscal data. We did. The numbers are surprising — and the men behind them is Prof.Mhtuli Ncube and George Guvamatanga
Ireland Is Quietly Becoming Zimbabwe's Most Important European Partner. Here Is Why Machakaire's Meeting With Ambassador Gormley Changes the Game.
Ireland and Zimbabwe are deepening a 46-year development partnership at the exact moment EU sanctions have been dismantled and Sweden is pulling out. Minister Machakaire and Ambassador Gormley just signalled what comes next.
The Fuel Price You Paid Yesterday Was Only the Beginning: Inside ZERA’s $2.17 Panic
Zimbabwe’s budget assumed $60 oil. Brent is above $100. ZERA just hiked fuel prices twice in 14 days. What Treasury must do now.
CAF Appeal Board Awards Morocco AFCON 2025 Title After Senegal Forfeit
Patrice Motsepe's AFCON Earthquake: How CAF Stripped Senegal of a Trophy They Won on the Pitch. CAF has done what no football body has done before: stripped a champion of a title won in extra time and handed it to the host nation by boardroom forfeit. Senegal is heading to CAS.
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The War You Cannot See Is Coming for Your Harvest: How Hormuz Is Starving Africa of Fertiliser
Oil at $100 is the headline. Fertiliser at 45 percent above January prices is the crisis nobody is covering. One-third of the world's seaborne fertiliser trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz. Africa imports over 90 percent of what it uses. The maths is brutal.
Why Africa's Biggest Trade Bank Just Handed a Zimbabwean the Keys to Its Insurance Empire
Lesley Ndlovu just became CEO of AfrexInsure, Afreximbank's specialty insurance arm. A Zimbabwean replacing a Zimbabwean at the helm of a continental institution worth $40 billion in assets. The trade insurance revolution starts here.
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Africa’s New Gold Mining Power Play: Ghana’s $1 Billion Damang Bet And The Battle For Resource Ownership
Ghana has declined to renew Gold Fields' lease on the Damang mine and is fielding $1 billion in local bids to take it over. If it works, every mining contract expiry on the continent becomes a negotiation. If it fails, resource nationalism gets a new cautionary tale.
Africa's Finance Ministers Built Their Budgets on $60 Oil. The Hormuz Crisis Just Made Every Forecast Obsolete.
Brent crude has surged past $100 as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. For fuel-importing African economies, the fiscal assumptions underpinning 2026 budgets are now dangerously wrong. Who adjusts first — and who denies longest — will define the year.