The Central Bank of Nigeria gave its banks two years to raise capital, with a deadline in March 2026. The consequences reach far beyond Lagos — including into Central Africa, where Nigerian banks are among the largest foreign players. In 2024, the Central Bank of Nigeria ordered a sharp increase in minimum capital, with the...

Every Central African family abroad knows a version of the story: money sent for a plot, a house half built, a title that turns out to belong to someone else. Property is the diaspora’s favourite investment and its most litigated one. For most of the diaspora, the first investment at home is land. It is...

On Sunday 4 October, Emmanuel Macron hosted the business leaders of the Africa-France Impact Coalition at the Élysée Palace, with Benin’s President Romuald Wadagni as guest of honour. Five months after the Nairobi summit, the coalition is becoming a permanent fixture. That leaves three questions about the €23 billion announced in May: what it covers,...

In six days, on 13 October, London once again becomes, for forty-eight hours, the place where part of Africa’s financing gets negotiated. The thirteenth edition of AFSIC – Investing in Africa opens at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge with the fullest programme in its history, just as the money bound for the continent is concentrating...