Emele Onu

The Strait of Hormuz is thousands of kilometres from Malawi, but its effective closure is already making fertiliser too expensive to reach the farmers who need it most.

ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investments Ltd., a private equity fund manager, said it aims to raise $200 million to invest in energy and climate infrastructure projects across sub-Saharan Africa.

Jim Ovia, who built Nigeria’s biggest lender by market value, is turning his attention to the Lagos skyline.

United Capital Plc plans to expand into East Africa in the third quarter, joining a flurry of financial-services firms seeking to capitalize on the continent’s fastest-growing region.

Essentially, the company is moribund. Yet, in the stock market, its value has done nothing but rise this year.

Flutterwave Inc., one of Africa’s most valuable financial-technology startups, sold an equity stake to Ripple, as it seeks to accelerate growth through payments expansion and strategic partnerships.

A public listing of an industrial asset of this scale would be a once-in-a-generation test of Africa's capital markets.

Seated beneath a large red canvas umbrella outside Nigeria’s main stock exchange in Lagos, Sulaimon Isiaka watches traders, bankers and executives stream past his newspaper stand each day.

The naira has strengthened almost 5% against the greenback since January, and Africa's largest oil producer's dollar bonds have returned 4.4%, but food, water, electricity, gas and other fuels and transport costs have soared.

Nigeria’s $22 billion pension industry is studying plans to launch a fund later this year to help Africa’s most populous nation upgrade its frayed infrastructure.