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Trump's war exposed. Mnangagwa's constitution advances. Congo's drone war escalates. The 11 power plays reshaping Africa today.
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Brent at $110. Zimbabwe fuel up 39%. Who profits from the arbitrage? PowerList names winners, losers and the next move.
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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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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 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.
Zimbabwe’s budget assumed $60 oil. Brent is above $100. ZERA just hiked fuel prices twice in 14 days. What Treasury must do now.
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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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.
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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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.
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.
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In 2009, BP and Shell sold their joint Zimbabwean operation. In 2010, Caltex followed. By 2015, three of the four largest international oil companies had abandoned Zimbabwe's downstream fuel market, surrendering over 130 service stations and the logistical backbone that had fuelled the country's transport, agriculture,