New Hands at ZimParks: Authority Names PR and ICT Managers From 1 April in Zimbabwe
Conservation agencies are usually judged on what they protect, not on how they communicate — yet in Zimbabwe, where wildlife is both heritage and revenue line, the two are harder to separate than they look. The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority has...
New Hands at ZimParks: Authority Names PR and ICT Managers From 1 April in Zimbabwe
Conservation agencies are usually judged on what they protect, not on how they communicate — yet in Zimbabwe, where wildlife is both heritage and revenue line, the two are harder to separate than they look. The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority has...
Peace, Pixels and Plants: SADC Ties Industrialisation to Digital Growth for 2026–27
Industrial policy in southern Africa has long had a sequencing problem. The factories everyone wants assume a stability and a connectivity that much of the region cannot yet take for granted. The SADC Council of Ministers, in framing the bloc's 2026–27 agenda, has...
Zimbabwe’s $115 million rail financing push is really a mining-logistics strategy
NRZ wants locomotives, wagons and network repairs, but the deeper commercial objective is restoring a rail system capable of carrying mining growth to regional ports. Zimbabwe’s National Railways is negotiating a $115 million facility with Afreximbank to purchase...
This Month’s Issue
The Value-Add Republic
How Zimbabwe is re-architecting its economy – from a raw-commodity exporter into a value-add republic that keeps the margin at home, from lithium carbonate above US$24,000 a tonne to graded grain.
- 01 Battery Boom: Lithium Carbonate Tops US$24,000 a Tonne
- 02 The Big 5 Returns: RBZ Rolls Out Upgraded ZiG Banknotes
- 03 Walter Magaya: 45 Members to US$25M+ in 13 Years
New Hands at ZimParks: Authority Names PR and ICT Managers From 1 April in Zimbabwe
ZimParks names Luckmore Safuli PR Manager and Pauline Matinhure ICT Manager from 1 April 2026 — appointments at the seam of conservation and revenue.
Peace, Pixels and Plants: SADC Ties Industrialisation to Digital Growth for 2026–27
SADC’s 2026–27 theme ties industrialisation to peace, digital growth and energy — a sequence of dependencies Zimbabwean operators must read in order.
Zimbabwe’s $115 million rail financing push is really a mining-logistics strategy
NRZ wants locomotives, wagons and network repairs, but the deeper commercial objective is restoring a rail system capable of carrying mining growth to regional ports.
Economics
Peace, Pixels and Plants: SADC Ties Industrialisation to Digital Growth for 2026–27
Industrial policy in southern Africa has long had a sequencing problem. The factories everyone wants assume a stability and a connectivity that much of the region cannot yet take for granted. The SADC Council of Ministers, in framing the bloc's 2026–27 agenda, has...
Egypt’s rise in new foreign companies is turning reform into an investment metric
A 33.7% increase in foreign company incorporations gives Egypt a measurable indicator of investor entry, but company formation still has to translate into productive capital and jobs. Egypt registered 5,022 new foreign companies during the first half of 2026, up 33.7%...
Barrick’s Congo copper push is expanding the exploration layer of its African portfolio
Permits in Haut-Katanga place Barrick inside one of the world’s most important copper provinces, but exploration still has to convert tenure into geological evidence. Barrick Mining’s expansion into copper exploration in the Democratic Republic of Congo changes the...
Money
South Africa’s R2 billion Club Med resort puts hospitality investment back on the map
The Ballito resort is more than a tourism opening; it is a test of whether large destination assets can translate construction capital into durable local economic activity. The opening of South Africa’s first Club Med resort in Ballito is being presented as a tourism...
Malaria’s Playbook: What Tanzania Learned From China’s 1-3-7 Method
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The usual currency of health aid is goods - drugs, nets, diagnostic kits shipped from a donor to a recipient. The more durable, and rarer, export is a method. In...
COVID-19 in the Sahel: China’s Medical Team Lands in Burkina Faso
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 When COVID-19 reached the Sahel in early 2020, the global instinct was to pull resources inward. Protective equipment became a contested commodity, export bans multiplied...
Lifestyle
Ethiopia’s tree-planting drive is becoming productive infrastructure
The Green Legacy Initiative is increasingly being framed not only as reforestation, but as soil, water and agricultural infrastructure with measurable economic consequences. Ethiopia’s Green Legacy Initiative is increasingly being presented as more than a national...
Mozambique’s $401 million El Niño plan turns climate risk into a financing requirement
The government has quantified the expected cost of preparing for a severe 2026/27 El Niño; the challenge now is closing a $276 million funding gap before impacts arrive. Mozambique has converted the abstract risk of a severe El Niño into a number: $401 million. The...
Water, Seed and Disease: SADC Ministers Prioritise Irrigation, Seed Research and FMD Control
Southern Africa's farms are exposed on three fronts at once — too little water when the rains fail, too few improved seeds when planting season comes, and disease that can shut an export market overnight. Each threatens output on its own; together they decide whether...
Peace, Pixels and Plants: SADC Ties Industrialisation to Digital Growth for 2026–27
SADC’s 2026–27 theme ties industrialisation to peace, digital growth and energy — a sequence of dependencies Zimbabwean operators must read in order.
Egypt’s rise in new foreign companies is turning reform into an investment metric
A 33.7% increase in foreign company incorporations gives Egypt a measurable indicator of investor entry, but company formation still has to translate into productive capital and jobs.
Barrick’s Congo copper push is expanding the exploration layer of its African portfolio
Permits in Haut-Katanga place Barrick inside one of the world’s most important copper provinces, but exploration still has to convert tenure into geological evidence.
World Bank guarantees are becoming part of Angola’s investment-mobilisation strategy
MIGA’s focus on Angola shows how guarantees can convert politically or commercially difficult projects into assets capable of attracting private capital.
Koryx’s Zambia drill programme moves copper exploration into the testing phase
A 2,500-metre maiden programme at Luanshya West shifts the story from geological promise to evidence, the point at which exploration capital begins to become measurable.
Development finance is pushing Namibia’s green hydrogen pipeline toward bankability
AfDB reimbursable grants are aimed at the least glamorous but most decisive stage of green hydrogen development: turning concepts into financeable projects.
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New Hands at ZimParks: Authority Names PR and ICT Managers From 1 April in Zimbabwe
ZimParks names Luckmore Safuli PR Manager and Pauline Matinhure ICT Manager from 1 April 2026 — appointments at the seam of conservation and revenue.
Dangote’s IPO stress test exposed the infrastructure behind Nigeria’s fintech boom
Retail demand overwhelmed several investment platforms, revealing that digital market access is only as strong as the capacity, identity and settlement systems beneath the interface.
South Africa’s R2 billion Club Med resort puts hospitality investment back on the map
The Ballito resort is more than a tourism opening; it is a test of whether large destination assets can translate construction capital into durable local economic activity.
Take the Lead: Women in Agriculture Union Presses for Female Control of Value Chains in Harare
At a Harare breakfast, the Women in Agriculture Union urged women to control agriculture value chains, citing a farm hub, a fund and a microfinance bank.
Pipeline-Builders: China-Africa Youth Contests Bet on Founders, Not Factories
A China-Africa youth entrepreneurship competition now runs across continents on digital economy and AI. The harder question is what happens to the founders after the final in Wuhan.
Eyes Over Africa: China’s Remote-Sensing Offer Lands Before the Centre Does
China has delivered emergency satellite imagery to Nigeria and Ethiopia and software to Cameroon. The shared cooperation centre meant to anchor it all is still under construction.