As the African Credit Rating Agency launches this week, Toni Kan and Omome Abu explain why ratings matter more than ever for African DFIs.

Egypt and Morocco are the powerhouses of Africa's most dominant banking region, with Algerian firms also well represented in North Africa.

Development banks play a key role in infrastructure, trade, industrialisation and climate adaptation. We rank the continent's biggest.

Why does sovereign debt advice leave the continent when African governments are making decisions about their own financing and development?

The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development has approved $390m in financing for energy, mining, transport and climate-smart agriculture projects in Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo. Share Prefer ...

Dangote Group CEO Aliko Dangote and Kenyan President William Ruto have broken ground on a planned $16bn oil refinery in Kenya which could transform East Africa’s energy sector. The planned facility in ...

Africa is spearheading two derisking initiatives: one proving creditworthiness to the global financial system and one ...

With elections looming early next year, African Business heads to Lagos to ask Nigerians to rate the first term of President ...

Sobukwe Odinga’s Treachery and diplomacy: the shadow politics of US-Africa relations is a fascinating and perhaps overdue book that takes a long, hard look at how Washington has dealt with African ...

The renovation of Abidjan’s Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium for the 2023 AFCON has created more than a world-class sporting ...