Nigeria Taming Inflation? | 02.25.2025
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- Feb 26
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Headlines
📸 Efficiency Challenges in South Africa’s Mining Sector
📖 [DOWNLOAD] Assessing AfCFTA Five Years On
🎦 P1 Ventures Fund Reaches $50 Million Close
📸 Suez Canal Turmoil Benefiting Cape Town
🎦 Was USAID Inadvertently Funding Boko Haram and Other Terrorist Orgs?
Africa
📰 Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Drops to 24.48% in January 2025
After a rebasing of the CPI, Nigeria’s inflation has dropped dramatically from 34.80% in December 2024, to 24.48% this month… Read More
📰 Kenya, South Africa Led Continent in Private Capital Investments in 2024
Debt and structured financing became a more prominent feature of the landscape. Southern and East Africa continued to lead in deal volume, but new energy and infrastructure plays in West Africa started changing the balance…Read More
📰 Miners Struggle to Raise Capital for African Critical Minerals Projects
Some estimates suggest Africa contains around 30% of all critical minerals, though the true extent of the continent’s riches could be even greater since vast areas remain under-explored… Read More
📸 Efficiency Challenges in South Africa’s Mining Sector
📖 [DOWNLOAD] Assessing AfCFTA Five Years On
In short, progress is being made but easing of tariffs is only part of the solution—non-tariff trade barriers need to also be addressed and are perhaps the bigger impediment to trade between African nations.
🎦 P1 Ventures Fund Reaches $50 Million Close
The fund aims to make early-stage VC investments across Africa… Read More
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📰 Nigeria Needs Much Higher Power Prices, President’s Adviser Says
Nigeria’s power prices need to rise by about two thirds for many customers to reflect the cost of supplying it and an increase can be expected within months. Nigeria, a nation of about 237 million people, has an electricity access rate of around 62%, an erratic grid supply limits productivity and disrupts daily life.… Read More
📸 Suez Canal Turmoil Benefiting Cape Town
🎦 Was USAID Inadvertently Funding Boko Haram and Other Terrorist Orgs?
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📰 France’s Macron Commits €1 Billion to Africa Electrification
The capital will be channeled into the World Bank-backed initiative through the Agence Francaise de Developpement, a French state development bank… Read More
