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African companies

  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    AngloGold Ashanti Ltd
    AngloGold to buy Centamin for £1.9bn in blow to London stock market

    Consolidation heats up in precious metals mining sector

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  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    News in-depthSouth Africa
    The South African bus chief taking a stand against ‘mafia’ demands

    Transport executive takes to courts to force action against organised crime’s hold on country’s economy

    An Intercape bus that had broken through a road barrier to slip down an embankment after being shot at on its way to Cape Town, South Africa in August 2022
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Masters in Management
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    South African energy supplier Eskom’s attempts to decarbonise electricity generation and tackle costly blackouts

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  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The middle-power competition in Africa

    The jostle for influence brings opportunities, but also scope for bad decisions

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  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    FT SeriesClamour for Africa
    The US-backed railway sparking a battle for African copper

    Washington’s support for a minerals train connecting the DRC to the Atlantic illustrates its desire to compete with China

    Montage image of a locomotive, a man and a map showing the route of the rail project
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Qatar Airways
    Qatar Airways signals appetite for more deals after Airlink investment

    Gulf carrier’s purchase of 25% stake in South African airline adds to growing portfolio

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  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Nigeria
    Nigerian jets ordered to be seized in Chinese company dispute

    Judgment is latest arbitration effort by a foreign group alleging that the African nation reneged on an agreement

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  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Energy Source
    Nigeria’s Dangote refinery embroiled in billionaire’s feud with government Premium content

    An industry regulator accused Africa’s richest man of monopolistic practices with his new $20bn plant

    Workers stand in front of the Mild Hydrocracking Unit at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    News in-depthTech start-ups
    Nigeria’s food delivery industry whets investors’ appetite

    Sector forecast to double in value over eight years but soaring inflation will erode families’ spending power

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Guinness Nigeria PLC
    The Singaporean firm betting on Nigeria amid multinationals’ ‘exodus’

    Family-owned Tolaram bought Guinness shares from Diageo in Africa’s largest but volatile market

    People in Lagos, Nigeria, relaxing and drinking a Guinness beer
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Airlines
    RwandAir says Qatar Airways closing in on acquiring stake

    Carriers have been working on a deal expected to boost capacity in fast-growing market

    A Rwandair plane at the Kanombe, Kigali International Airport in Kigali
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Diageo PLC
    Diageo sells majority stake in Guinness Nigeria to Singapore’s Tolaram

    Spirits group scales back presence in country amid currency and economic crisis

    A picture of a Guinness can
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
    TymeBank expands digital footprint as South Africa’s online-only lender

    Growth plans must contend with areas of high unemployment and customers who have fluid living arrangements

    In a bustling grocery store, a woman in a blue blouse extends her payment card to a cashier dressed in a light blue shirt and glasses. The checkout area is equipped with modern payment terminals, and the store’s shelves filled with products are visible in the background
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
    Africa businesses struggle to recover from Covid pandemic

    List of top 125 shows companies that have performed well in difficult times

    An illustration shows four people engaging in various shopping activities using giant smartphone screens as doorways. On the far left, a woman carries a basket on her head while opening a refrigerated section of a phone. Next, an older woman walks out of a phone carrying shopping bags. In the third phone, a young man picks fresh produce handed to him by a vendor. On the far right, a man in a red shirt, possibly a store employee, smiles and waves from behind another smartphone screen. The scene is set against an orange sky and grassy ground
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
    Asset managers assess Africa's best investments

    Investing in Africa is the easy bit, say some leading investment managers. Getting your money back is the problem

  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    Mining
    Abu Dhabi conglomerate embarks on flurry of mining deals

    Business owned by IHC broke into market last year with acquisition of a major Zambian copper mine

    Syed Basar Shueb with IHC’s logo on the wall behind him
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    South Africa
    South Africa’s blackouts crisis is ‘fixed’, says Eskom

    Chair of state-owned utility makes claim about outages days ahead of crucial vote for ruling ANC

    A shop owner picks an item for a customer by candlelight during power outages by South African utility Eskom
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Agricultural commodities
    ETG threatens international arbitration in dispute over $60mn seizure

    Commodities house urges Mozambique to resolve commercial fight after rival seizes food export

    Dal
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Naspers Ltd
    Tencent investor Naspers appoints Bloisi as new chief

    Head of Brazil’s biggest food delivery app expected to maintain strategy of buying back shares

    Fabricio Bloisi
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Mining
    Glencore chief backs South Africa as Anglo takeover battle rages

    Gary Nagle’s praise came hours after the country’s storied miner announced it would break itself up

    Workers inspect batches of processed copper at Mutanda Mining Sarl, owned (69%) by Glencore
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    The ranking: Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies 2024

    List of 125 includes many businesses that have overcome the Covid pandemic and the continent’s economic problems

  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    Moral Money
    Société Générale among French and UK banks pulling back from Africa Premium content

    Institutions had touted Africa as a growth market that would bolster their sustainability credentials

    Palm trees flank an office block
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    News in-depthAnglo American PLC
    South Africa ponders ‘corporate sunset’ for Anglo American

    Journey from industrial behemoth to takeover target reflects country’s decline as a mining powerhouse

    Striking miners in Marikana in 2014
  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    Kenya
    Kenya president set for landmark US state visit as Russia builds Africa influence

    William Ruto hails relationship with Washington and pushes for extension of Africa trade pact

  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    Anglo American PLC
    South African watchdog says it will have last word on BHP bid for Anglo

    Country’s independent Competition Commission vows to assess any takeover on ‘public interest’ grounds

    The Waterval smelter, operated by Anglo American Platinum, outside Rustenburg, South Africa
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