Category: International Business & Finance
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🇳🇬 Nigeria’s Stock Market Hits New Record as Market Capitalisation Climbs to N164.91 Trillion
Nigeria’s stock market has reached another historic milestone, with the NGX All-Share Index climbing to 253,990.06 points and total equity market capitalisation reaching a record N164.91 trillion after a N1.75 trillion one-day increase.
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🇨🇦 Polish Investor Virtus Group Establishes Canadian Base to Recover Metals from Mine Dumps
Warsaw-listed Virtus Group has established operations in British Columbia to pursue recovery of base metals from post-mining and armament waste, with plans to build a project portfolio and potentially list on the TSX-V. The initiative remains unverified and at an early stage.
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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso Deepens Russia Partnership as Ibrahim Traoré Pushes for Strategic Sovereignty
Burkina Faso is deepening its strategic partnership with Russia under Ibrahim Traoré, expanding cooperation beyond security into food security, healthcare, education and potential civil nuclear development as Ouagadougou pursues a broader vision of national sovereignty and self-reliance.
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🏴 MUFG Expects Bank of England to Begin Raising Rates in November, Supporting Sterling Against the Euro
MUFG expects the Bank of England to start raising interest rates in November, a move that could support the pound against the euro as investors weigh France’s fiscal difficulties against the UK’s upcoming Budget.
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🇨🇲 Cameroon’s Kribi Port Invests CFA21.5 Billion to Increase Container Terminal Capacity by 30%
Cameroon’s Kribi Container Terminal has begun a reported CFA21.5 billion expansion that will add eight hectares and increase container-handling capacity by approximately 30%, with completion targeted for the fourth quarter of 2027. The investment is designed to support rising trade volumes and potential cargo generated by a planned industrial zone near the deepwater port.
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🇱🇷 Liberia’s Mining Question: Why Isn’t More Iron Ore Being Processed at Home?
Liberia’s iron-ore industry raises a fundamental question about the country’s economic future: should Liberia remain primarily a mineral exporter, or use its resources to build domestic processing, steel manufacturing and broader industrial capacity?
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🇬🇭 🇨🇳 Ghana Opens Direct Cedi-to-Yuan Payment Channel With China, Reducing Reliance on the Dollar
Ghana has launched a direct cedi-to-yuan payment mechanism that allows businesses to settle eligible China trade transactions without using the US dollar as an intermediary. Piloted by Stanbic Bank Ghana, the system uses China’s CIPS network and could reduce settlement times and foreign-exchange costs while strengthening Ghana-China trade.
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🇺🇸 603 Stolen Vehicles, $36 Million: How a North American Car-Theft Network Reached West Africa
A map of documented U.S. source locations linked to recent vehicle-theft investigations shows how stolen cars can move from communities across New Jersey, New York and the Washington, D.C. region toward shipping hubs and overseas markets in West Africa. The map highlights confirmed locations from individual investigations—not the origin of all 603 vehicles seized at…
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🇩🇰 The Ambassador: A Controversial Journey Into Africa’s Diamond Trade
The Ambassador takes viewers into the Central African Republic’s diamond trade through Danish filmmaker Mads Brügger’s unconventional undercover investigation. Although the film is not set in the DRC, its questions about mineral access, foreign investment, diplomacy and African resource value chains remain relevant to today’s Congo mining debate.
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🇬🇭 Ghana Is Open for Business: Mahama Takes Investment Message to Nasdaq
The core event details are confirmed by Nasdaq, Ghana’s Information Services Department, and the Ghana News Agency. Nasdaq lists the closing-bell ceremony for September 23, 2026, and explicitly describes it as highlighting Ghana’s openness to business. President John Dramani Mahama has used a high-profile Nasdaq closing-bell ceremony in New York to declare that Ghana is…