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Africa’s growth story continues to evolve as stronger banks, rising investment in critical minerals, and bold industrial ambitions reshape the continent’s economic future. From the DRC’s first lithium exports and Nigerian banks’ capital surge to Ethiopia’s financial reforms and Angola’s latest rate cut, this week’s developments highlight an Africa positioning itself for long-term growth despite…

William Nyarko, Executive Director of the Africa Centre for International Law and Accountability (ACILA), has called for sweeping reforms to political finance laws across Africa to require electoral candidates to disclose donations received during campaigns and file financial reports and returns, arguing that the current legal gap is fueling corruption, state capture, and the misuse…

The first two weeks of July have highlighted the forces reshaping Africa’s financial landscape. From the continent’s growing embrace of the Chinese yuan and Ethiopia’s sweeping banking reforms to Kenya’s resilient economic growth and East Africa’s rising appeal to investors, Africa is strengthening its long-term growth story even as renewed geopolitical tensions threaten the recovery.

In case you don’t know, the election is a multi-billion-dollar industry in Nigeria. If you tabulate what Federal Government spend to conduct general, bye, supplementary and off-cycle elections, what political parties, aspirants and candidates spend on their electioneering activities, what the security agencies spend to secure the election ecosystem in the lead up to, during…