Emmanuel Abara Benson is a business journalist and editor at BNN.Network. With extensive experience since 2018, he specializes in covering and analyzing Africa's leading companies and economies, focusing on finance, technology, and the intersection of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the business sector. Emmanuel has been featured in BNN Breaking, Environmental Post Ledger, Modern Diplomacy, and TrimFeed, among others.
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By: Emmanuel Abara Benson
A Federal High Court has upheld Nigeria's digital lending regulations while ruling that the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission cannot license telecommunications operators or regulate airtime lending, handing both regulators a partial victory in a dispute that disrupted services for millions of mobile subscribers.
South Africa's annual inflation accelerated more sharply than expected in June, heightening expectations that the central bank could raise interest rates again.
Dangote Group is exploring the construction of a petroleum products storage depot in Cameroon that could eventually be connected to a regional pipeline network, as the company accelerates plans to expand the distribution of refined fuels across Central Africa.
Airtel Africa has selected the London Stock Exchange for the planned initial public offering of its mobile money business, Airtel Money.
African development banks are increasingly using debt guarantees to attract private investment into infrastructure projects as governments seek new ways to close the continent's annual infrastructure financing gap.
Meta has withdrawn from a major corporate clean energy coalition as the company accelerates investment in natural gas to power its rapidly expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure.
China has added fourteen European Union companies to its export control list, escalating trade tensions with the EU bloc as both sides continue to tighten restrictions on sensitive technologies and products with potential military applications.
By: Emmanuel Abara Benson
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Sub-Saharan Africa could increase its economic output by about 4% over the next decade through artificial intelligence, but only if governments first address chronic shortages of electricity, internet connectivity and digital skills. Without these essential reforms, the region's AI dividend could be almost negligible.
South Africa's Deputy Finance Minister David Masondo has resigned as chairperson of the Public Investment Corporation. This comes as the state-owned asset manager faces mounting scrutiny over governance and the suspension of its chief executive.
Meta has withdrawn from RE100, one of the world's leading corporate renewable electricity initiatives, after a decade of membership.
