Global energy trader Trafigura has taken a major step in channeling private capital toward climate solutions by identifying four large-scale carbon removal projects across southern and central Africa. The initiative, operating under the Miombo Restoration Alliance framework, aims to invest at least $1 billion over the projects’ 40-year lifetime while restoring critical woodland ecosystems that […]

In a dramatic escalation of tensions between global credit rating agencies and African financial institutions, Fitch Ratings has downgraded the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to junk status and withdrawn all future ratings of the multilateral lender. The final ratings change to BB+ from BBB- marks the conclusion of an increasingly combative relationship between the ratings […]

South Africa’s government is forging ahead with an ambitious plan to mobilize R100 billion by 2029 through a new Transformation Fund designed to accelerate Black Economic Empowerment, despite fierce opposition from coalition partners and widespread skepticism from business leaders. The initiative, championed by Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Parks Tau, has emerged as one […]

In a landmark transaction that signals the deepening commercial ties between the Middle East and Africa, Saudi Arabia’s Zahid Group has officially completed its acquisition of Barloworld Limited, the venerable South African industrial conglomerate, in a deal valued at R23 billion ($1.3 billion). The completion of this transaction marks the end of Barloworld’s 123-year history […]