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  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    PwC
    PwC exits more than a dozen countries in push to avoid scandals

    African firms say they lost over a third of their business as global executives forced them to drop risky clients

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  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
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  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
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  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
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  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
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    Nigeria appoints former Shell executive to lead state-owned oil group

    President Bola Tinubu replaces NNPC board as country tries to boost production

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  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
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    Heavily subsidised fuels are being smuggled out of the country and sold abroad, helping sustain its rival political factions

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  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
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    The economic case for cutting prices tells only half the story

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  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Anglo American PLC
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    World’s biggest platinum producer Amplats will list in London in the summer

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  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
    Diageo PLC
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    Disposal follows speculation about group’s portfolio ahead of annual results next week

    A barmaid pulls a pint of Guinness inside the Moon Under Water pub in London
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
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    Nigeria’s Seplat moves in to fill gap as foreign oil companies retreat

    Buyer of ExxonMobil’s assets in the west African country wants to double production within six months

    Two workers in blue overalls and white helmets are operating machinery at an industrial site.
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Shell tied new Nigeria offshore investments to approval for oil asset sale

    Approval for exit from operation at centre of decades of criticism over environmental impact marked sharp turnaround

    Bonga offshore production facility
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Fintech
    Brazilian fintech Nubank’s $150mn investment to give South Africa’s Tyme unicorn status

    UK fund manager M&G to inject $50mn through its sustainability focused Catalyst business

    Nubank logo outside its headquarters in Sao Paulo
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    McKinsey
    McKinsey pays $122mn to resolve probes into South Africa bribes

    Deferred prosecution agreement covers corruption scandal involving state-owned companies during Zuma presidency

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  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
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    Russian state company’s 41% stake was sold to an Omani-backed investment fund Maaden

    US President Joe Biden hosted Angolan President João Lourenço at the White House in November 2023
  • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Dangote seeks billions to boost crude supplies at new Nigerian refinery

    Africa’s richest man in talks with international banks for funds as he sets sights on ending country’s reliance on imports

    Aliko Dangote
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    News in-depthMali
    Mali’s junta escalates fight with mining groups over profit share

    Resolute Mining chief and colleagues held as junta want greater share of gold producers’ profits

    Gold mining in quarry with truck loader
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
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    Botswana must mend ties with ‘golden egg’ De Beers, new president says

    Relations between African nation and diamond group frayed before Duma Boko’s election

    Duma Boko, left, walks alongside Mokgweetsi Masisi at the Office of the President in Gaborone, Botswana on November 4 2024
  • Sunday, 3 November, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Shell fights to win approval for sale of Nigerian onshore business

    Energy major and prospective buyer in lobbying drive to overcome regulator’s objections to $1.3bn deal

    Aerial view of the Shell Awobo flow station in the Niger Delta
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Aliko Dangote
    Nigeria’s president summons Aliko Dangote over supplies to new oil refinery

    Meeting on Tuesday is needed to release more crude for refinery, says industrialist

    A view of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals complex in Lagos, showcasing large industrial pipes and structures.
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Fintech
    Nigeria-based fintech Moniepoint gains ‘unicorn’ status

    Company raises $110mn from investors including Google despite slowdown in fundraising for African start-ups

    Moniepoint logo and card
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    Prosus
    New boss seeks to bring Naspers out of Tencent’s shadow

    Fabricio Bloisi will overhaul corporate culture and pay structures in search of growth beyond its stake in the Chinese internet giant

    Fabricio Bloisi
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Nigeria rejects Shell’s planned sale of $1.3bn onshore production unit

    Decision comes on the same day as ExxonMobil wins approval for long-delayed asset sale in Niger Delta

    Oil covers stagnant water over Shell pipeline in Ogale, Rivers State, Nigeria, in February 2024
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Indermit Gill
    Nigeria’s economic transformation must succeed

    Failure would set back the cause of reform across sub-Saharan Africa

    Shoppers and traders in a congested street market in Lagos
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    African economy
    African countries seek $5bn for new fossil fuel project lender

    Coalition of 18 nations looks to establish ‘energy bank’ as western institutions increasingly shun oil and gas

    Employees of the Afam VI power plant walk past a gas pipeline at the plant in Port Harcourt in NIgeria
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Energy Source
    Nigeria’s Dangote refinery reignites debate over petrol subsidies Premium content

    The country’s new ‘single train’ facility has started producing the fuel, making it locally available

    Cars queue to buy petrol at a NNPC petrol station
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