Audio streaming giant Spotify’s SPOT.N royalty payments to artists from Nigeria and South Africa – its two biggest African markets – spiked to around $59 million last year as performers rode a wave of ...

Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the United States on tariffs that risk wiping out nearly half of its exports, its trade minister said, in ...

South Africa’s government said on Friday that tariffs announced by President Donald Trump this week effectively nullified the benefits African countries enjoy under U.S. trade initiative the African ...

Traders at Access Bank say tariff impositions on Nigeria’s exports to the U.S. has triggered increased demand for the ...

South Africa has no immediate plans to retaliate against the United States over tariffs announced by President Donald ...

The gaming industry in Africa has experienced significant growth in recent years, with millions of players across the ...

Ethiopia’s official creditors expect to finalise within months a draft debt restructuring that gives the government more time to pay but stops short of an outright haircut, the co-chair of the group ...

A Kenyan court has ruled that Facebook’s parent company Meta META.O can be sued in the East African country over its alleged role in promoting content that led to ethnic violence in neighbouring ...

Tanzania’s central bank said on Friday that it had kept its key interest rate TZINTR=ECI unchanged at 6%. It is the fourth monetary policy meeting in a row that the rate has been maintained. The Bank ...

The United States is in talks to invest billions of dollars in mineral-rich Congo and wants to help end a conflict raging in the country’s east, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for Africa said ...

Kenya’s private sector activity expanded at its fastest pace in 10 months in March, helped by improved performance in most sectors apart from manufacturing, which experienced a contraction, a survey ...

The following scheduled economic events, equity and currency market moves may affect South African markets on Friday. ECONOMIC EVENTS Inflation-linked bond auction SOUTH AFRICAN MARKETS South African ...