Kenya’s reported fall from 6,800 to 6,500 dollar-millionaires shows how taxes, asset values and offshore allocation can reshape private wealth quickly.
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Money
Zimbabwe’s diaspora wants an investment role beyond remittances
Zimbabwe’s diaspora is increasingly arguing for investable projects, transparent structures and ownership opportunities that convert remittance strength into productive long-term capital.
Bank Windhoek’s N$21 million investment broadens banking’s development role
Bank Windhoek’s community investment programme shows how commercial banks increasingly use social-value spending to strengthen the economic ecosystems around their core businesses.
Trade finance: the quiet plumbing behind Africa’s exports to China
Tariffs and protocols open the market, but a shipment only sails when someone finances it. The credit, insurance and bonds behind African exports rarely make headlines, yet they decide who can trade.
CADFund: The state vehicle quietly underwriting China’s Africa investments
A China Development Bank fund built to coax Chinese firms into Africa has committed roughly US$7.6bn across 39 countries. Its job is less to spend than to make others spend.
Industrial Parks as Gateways: Ethiopia’s FDI Bet, Measured at the Exit
Ethiopia’s parks pulled in record FDI and tens of thousands of jobs. The IFC’s diagnostic is admiring and wary in the same breath: the gateway works, but the road past it is congested.
Green Industrial Chains: A US$700 Million Fund Bets on Africa Keeping the Value
A China-Africa Green Industrial Chain fund of about RMB 5 billion, with seven early projects approved, signals a next-phase pitch: not just power, but the supply chains around it – and the value they
Clean-Energy Contracting: RMB 21 Billion in Revenue, and a Question of Whose
China reports RMB 21.18 billion in contracted clean-energy project revenue since the Beijing Summit. The figure is real – the open question is how much of that contracting value lands in African
The Investment Map for Lusaka as the Capital of Exile Politics
Lusaka’s liberation heritage is an underused commercial asset: heritage routes, an archival centre, educational tourism and diplomatic programming.