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?
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 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.