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  • Africa's economic growth slows in 2026 but projected to rebound
  • Africa: Economic Freedom Remains Africa's Unfinished Struggle - AfCFTA Boss
  • Can Africa turn its population boom into prosperity?

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africanews.com /1 month ago

Africa's economic growth slows in 2026 but projected to rebound

Africa's economic growth will slow this year to 4.2 percent - down from 4.4 percent last year -  the African Development Bank projects in its 2026 economic outlook released on Tues...

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allafrica.com /1 month ago

Africa: Economic Freedom Remains Africa's Unfinished Struggle - AfCFTA Boss

[New Times] Africa may have achieved political independence, but the continent's biggest remaining challenge is economic liberation, according to the Secretary General of the Afric...

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aljazeera.com /1 month ago

Can Africa turn its population boom into prosperity?

Africa’s rapid population growth offers major economic opportunities but also deep structural constraints.

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pmnewsnigeria.com /1 month ago

Africa Is Not Poor. It Is Being Drained

When colonised nations gained independence, they inherited economies shaped to serve external markets, built around the export of raw materials, fossil fuels, and cash crops to fue...

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premiumtimesng.com /1 week ago

Africa, socioeconomics and investment risks in a geoeconomic realignment context

In fact, the Nigerian and African agricultural and agro-processing sectors represent massive, untapped potential. The post Africa, socioeconomics and investment risks in a geoecono...

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jamaicainquirer.com /1 month ago

Can Africa turn its population boom into prosperity? 

Pretoria, South Africa – As global sentiment towards Africa turns sharply pessimistic, with aid cuts, foreign investme...

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borgenproject.org /1 month ago

Poverty Reduction Efforts Across Africa

From East Africa, home to Kenya, to the western coast of Sierra Leone, the continent is home to diverse populations that have both experienced and influenced much of modern history...

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allafrica.com /1 day ago

Africa: Luxury Tourism Is a Risky Strategy for African Economies!

[The Point] Luxury tourism aims to attract high-spending tourists to stay at premium resorts and lodges or visit exclusive attractions. It's a strategy that's being adopted widely...

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theeastafrican.co.ke /1 week ago

Displaced Africans drive $28bn ‘hidden economy’

A new study says refugees and internally displaced people are already driving business and entrepreneurship despite barriers to finance, land and formal employment.

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miningweekly.com /2 weeks ago

Africa urged to embrace equitable resource-based industrialisation

As a continent endowed with a vast number of natural resources and high renewable-energy potential, Africa’s natural resources can be a platform for industrialisation if linkages w...

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zambianews.net /18 hours ago

Roundup: African manufacturers look to China's industrial experience to boost growth

by Ntandoyenkosi Ncube JOHANNESBURG, July 15 (Xinhua) -- African manufacturers and trade officials have called on the continent to draw lessons from China's industrial transformati...

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thisdaylive.com /1 week ago

Elombi Renews Call for African Ratings Agency, Says Continent Must Control Its Economic Narrative

• Declares skills shortage threatens electric battery manufacturing ambitions, value addition crucial for continent’s growth • PAPSS gains momentum as 28 African central banks join...

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allafrica.com /1 day ago

Africa: All of Africa Today - July 15, 2026

[allAfrica] EU Bans Sudan Gold Imports to Curb War Funding

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allafrica.com /3 weeks ago

Africa: Africa Must Look Within Domestic Economy for Development Financing ... As Aid Dwindles - IMF

[Ghanaian Times] African countries must increasingly rely on their own resources and institutions to drive development as international aid continues to decline, the International...

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zambianews.net /1 month ago

Roundup: African countries grapple with surging living costs amid deepening fuel crisis

by Xinhua writer Yan Ran NAIROBI, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Against the backdrop of mounting tensions in the Middle East, volatile global oil prices have dealt a heavy blow to African eco...

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theeastafrican.co.ke /4 days ago

Afreximbank banks on intra-African trade

Geopolitical tensions, rising protectionism and shifting global trade patterns are making regional integration increasingly important.

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allafrica.com /1 month ago

Tanzania Economy Hits U.S.$91.81bn As Growth Climbs to 5.9pc

[Daily News] Dodoma -- TANZANIA'S economy surged to US$91.81bn in 2025, reflecting stronger macroeconomic performance as real gross domestic product growth increased to 5.9 percent...

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marginalrevolution.com /1 day ago

Sub-Saharan Africa facts of the day

In aggregate its farmers are growing more cereals, such as maize (corn) and rice, than ever: nearly five times as much as in the 1960s, when many countries achieved independence. B...

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allafrica.com /3 weeks ago

'Time to Liberate Our Economies'

[Daily News] DODOMA -- NAMIBIA President Dr Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has called for strengthened bilateral cooperation between Tanzania and Namibia to advance "economic liberation" f...

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miningweekly.com /3 weeks ago

Africa can convert global trade disruptions into industrialisation opportunity – Afreximbank

Africa must resposition its trade infrastructure to capture greater value from global economic shifts, with industrialisation, stronger intra-African trade and improved access to f...

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allafrica.com /3 weeks ago

West Africa: West Africa's Rice Imperative - Why Investing in the Value Chain Is the Most Important Bet We Can Make

[World Bank] Every year, West Africa sends more than $3.5 billion abroad to buy rice -- a staple food that millions of people across the region consume every day. Yet, this is a cr...

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theeastafrican.co.ke /2 weeks ago

How Africa pays the price of disruptions at Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb and Suez

The latest shipping disruptions are exposing just how vulnerable African economies remain to shocks far beyond the continent.

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theeastafrican.co.ke /1 month ago

A bigger role for diaspora cash in East Africa’s slowing economies

The African Development Bank says East African governments should better harness diaspora remittances as growth slows and external shocks put fresh pressure on their economies.

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allafrica.com /2 weeks ago

West Africa: How the Cocoa Price Crash is Crushing West African Farmers

[DW] Cocoa prices reached a peak in 2024 before plummeting by nearly 75%, dealing a financial blow to millions of farmers in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. Will the crisis mark a turning...

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