Nigeria has emerged as the fifth-best performing country in Africa in the 2026 edition of the Africa Performance Index compiled by Jeune Afrique and The Africa Report, reflecting the country’s growing economic influence, innovation capacity, and regional importance despite ongoing governance challenges.

African countries invested $3.83 billion in agricultural research and development (R&D) in 2023, accounting for about 8% of global spending, according to a report published on April 30 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Zimbabwe now ranks as one of the most highly concentrated tobacco-dependent economies globally, a cabinet minister said on Tuesday.

AT the start of 2025, wireless technologies accounted for 41,84% of Zimbabwe’s fixed broadband subscriptions. By the end of it, that figure was 54,54%. The crossover, the point at which wireless became the majority technology in the fixed broadband market, happened during the third quarter. The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) published the numbers. Nobody assembled them into what they represent: Zimbabwe’s fixed broadband market has structurally become a wireless market within a single calendar year. The shift is not a trend. It is a reclassification of what fixed broadband means in this country.

The NERC 2026 mini-grid regulations signal a decisive shift in how Nigeria treats decentralised power, moving mini-grids from the margins of policy into the core of its electrification strategy.

Endowed with abundant mineral reserves, Zimbabwe stands at the heart of fierce global rivalry over strategic resources. Rising demand for lithium, gold, platinum and chromium has redirected investment trends and shifted geopolitical attention toward its mining industry.

THE ZambiaDevelopment Agency (ZDA) has secured a strategic partnership with the Jiangsu Industrial Cooperation Association, a body representing over 5,000 enterprises, in a move expected to significantly boost investment inflows from China.

The contribution of manufactured goods to Nigeria's export basket has stagnated for four consecutive years despite a sharp rise in the country’s total export value, latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) have shown.

Per the Bank of Ghana's May 2026 Summary of Economic and Financial Data, mobile money transactions across Ghana totalled GH¢493.2 billion in April 2026, encompassing 967 million individual deals.