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The United States is preparing up to $1 billion in financing through the International Development Finance Corporation to support a 30-year concession for rehabilitating and operating a 1,000-kilometre railway in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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AVIATION · KENYA
Kenya Airways is looking for a new lifeline
Kenya Airways says it expects to reveal potential new investors within weeks as it searches for capital to reduce debt, restore grounded aircraft and support its turnaround.
ENERGY · NIGERIA
Nigeria's fuel exports have risen seven-fold
Nigeria's seaborne petroleum product exports have increased seven-fold since 2023, with the Dangote refinery driving much of the growth and changing regional fuel trade.
INVESTMENT · AFRICA
The UAE's Africa push is getting harder to ignore
The UAE's growing presence across African ports, minerals and infrastructure is raising a broader question about foreign investment: how much value do African economies retain when major deals are signed?
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TECHNOLOGY · MARKETS
The AI trade is still looking for its next leg
Nvidia's latest outlook reinforced investor confidence that spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure is still growing, helping support global technology stocks.
For Africa, the AI boom is increasingly an infrastructure story. Demand for chips, power, data centres and critical minerals creates opportunities across the supply chain, but the larger question is how much value African economies can capture.
THE AFRICA ANGLE: The opportunity is not just to use AI, but to participate in the infrastructure and supply chains powering it.
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