One name worth knowing before the numbers below: Cooperative and Rural Development Bank (CRDB) Burundi, the local lender IFC picked…

Burundi has fifteen commercial banks. The BRB’s — the official sector directory published by the Bank of the Republic of…

Most blended-finance deals talk about “catalytic capital” in the abstract. This one names it, prices it, and puts it in…

Four new universities, backed by a sovereign wealth fund and a state bank’s private equity arm. Read at face value,…

On 28 July 2026, One Africa Investment Fund (1AIF) opened the second subscription round for BUJA CITY PLAZA, a five-story…

A €312 million financing package for Gabon’s Trans-Gabon Railway shows how development finance can make a difficult infrastructure asset investable…

Nigeria spent the first half of 2026 telling investors, in four unrelated markets, the same thing: yield now, growth later.…

I see Africa’s power deficit from both sides of the financing table: as an operator developing power solutions for businesses…

There are between 8,000 and 10,000 family offices worldwide today. Africa’s share of that number, according to Deloitte Private’s 2024…

African venture capital’s most binding constraint is no longer the absence of growth capital. It is the sharp contraction in…