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- [How Stanbic Bank and ICBC are attracting Chinese tourists to Tanzania](https://theexchange.africa/how-stanbic-bank-tanzania-and-icbc-are-attracting-chinese-tourist-to-tanzania/): To cement trade ties, boost investment flows and encourage tourism between Tanzania and China, Standard Bank and the Industrial Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have launched the I Go Tanzania loyalty program in partnership with Tanzania Tourism Board.
- [Kenya fights African peers to keep venture capital crown as Italy readies $59m fund](https://theexchange.africa/venture-capital-africa-kenya-italy/): For three consecutive years, Kenya has been Africa’s crown jewel, attracting record venture capital into its vibrant start-up ecosystem. Official data shows that in 2025 alone, the East African country attracted $984 million through a blend of capital deals, amid a scarcity of Series A and B funding rounds in emerging markets.
- [Mattei Plan anchors Italy-Kenya investment pitch from energy to tourism](https://theexchange.africa/mattei-plan-italy-kenya-investment/): Supported by the Mattei Plan for Africa and the Kenya–EU Economic Partnership Agreement, the forum reinforced a strong foundation for joint ventures, technology transfer, and sustainable investment partnerships between Kenya and Italy.
- [Three African universities in global team pioneering open payments innovation](https://theexchange.africa/interledger-foundation/): In an update on Monday, the Interledger Foundation (ILF), an organization building and advocating for an interoperable payments network, announced that it has engaged over 10 universities across North America, Europe, Australia and Africa to bring open payments curriculum into the classroom.
- [EIB Group and IFC’s Biovac plant funding speeds up Africa’s race toward vaccine self-reliance](https://theexchange.africa/biovac-vaccine-self-reliance/): In an update on Thursday, the European Investment Bank (EIB) announced a €75 million quasi-equity investment to support Biovac’s multi-vaccine centre in South Africa, opening the financing gates for an additional $20 million and further mobilisation in funding from the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
- [Why Kenya is a magnet for global tech investors eyeing Africa’s $3 billion AI economy](https://theexchange.africa/ai-everything-kenya-tech-investors/): As thousands of delegates prepare to convene in Nairobi from 19-21 May 2026 for the AI Everything Kenya summit, global investors will be scouting for the next big thing in Africa’s AI ecosystem, which is projected to exceed $3 billion in value by 2030.
- [Don’t ask if AI will take your jobs, ask who wants it to](https://theexchange.africa/will-ai-take-your-jobs/): Alarm bells have been ringing about how artificial intelligence (AI) will replace certain, if not most, future jobs. But this fixation on job loss may be asking the wrong question. The real issue is not whether AI will take jobs; it is about who controls AI and how it will be used.
- [Global oil market turmoil hits Kenyan pumps as fuel prices surge by 24%](https://theexchange.africa/global-oil-market/): Global oil market turmoil hits Kenyan pumps
- [The stakes and risks in Dangote Refinery’s $5bn grand bet for a Pan-African IPO](https://theexchange.africa/dangote-refinery-ipo-risks-opportunity/): Dangote Refinery is mulling a grand undertaking by raising $5 billion through a Pan-African Initial Public Offering (IPO), a deal that is poised to raise the bar for capital markets across the continent. Analysist observe that the initiative is set to involve at least six stock exchanges across Africa, possibly involving Abidjan, Nairobi, Johannesburg besides Nigeria's Lagos bourse.
- [Kenya suffers 441% uptick in cyber threats as 5G data usage picks up](https://theexchange.africa/cyber-threats-kenya/): Cyber threats continued to put Kenya's increasingly cash lite economy to the test in the three months to December 2025, with industry data showing vulnerability incidences surged by over 440 percent.
- [The Impact of U.S.-Israel War on Iran on Peace and Security in Africa](https://theexchange.africa/u-s-israel-war-on-iran-peace-security-africa/): As world markets watch with bated breath the ripples of the U.S.-Israel conflict in Iran, Africa, a continent already grappling with fragile economies, braces for impact. A sharp rise in fuel prices, disruption in shipping routes, and heightened geopolitical tensions could exacerbate existing vulnerabilities.
- [Kenya’s Central Bank holds interest rate as fuel shocks hit East Africa](https://theexchange.africa/kenyas-interest-rate-fuel-shocks/): The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has slammed the breaks on easing the benchmark Central Bank Rate (CBR), unchanged at 8.75 per cent at its second sitting this year. The hold is a shift indicating a cautionary stance as the negative impact of increasing oil prices triggered by the conflict in the Middle East.
- [Ethiopia’s reform push paying off as $13Bn investment deals dwarf regional rivals](https://theexchange.africa/ethiopias-reform-push-pays-off-as-13-billion-investment-forum-dwarfs-regional-rivals/): Ethiopia’s ambitious economic liberalisation is yielding tangible dividends. Last week, the East African nation secured over $13 billion in investment pledges at the Invest Ethiopia 2026 Forum in Addis Ababa, nearly seven times its initial $2.4 billion target and a striking contrast to the $2.9 billion raised at a comparable Kenyan event.
- [Afreximbank activates $10bn fund to shield Africa and the Caribbean from Iran war fallout](https://theexchange.africa/afreximbank-iran-war-africa-carribean/): As the Middle East conflict enters its second month with no end in sight, the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has taken the extraordinary step of approving a $10 billion emergency facility to insulate African and Caribbean economies from a crisis that is rapidly reshaping global trade, energy flows, and fiscal stability.
- [Middle East war breaks through Kenya’s economic shield as private sector shrinks](https://theexchange.africa/middle-east-war-kenyas-private-sector/): For six months, Kenya’s private sector defied gravity until over a month ago when the Middle East war broke out. Through currency volatility, drought, and the lingering aftershocks of Covid-19 pandemic-era debt, businesses kept expanding. But March brought an unwelcome milestone: the first contraction since August 2025, driven not by a domestic crisis but by a war 3,000 kilometres away.
- [How the Middle East conflict is squeezing currencies in Africa](https://theexchange.africa/middle-east-conflict-strait-of-hormuz/): Two years after the global inflation shock of 2024, Africa is once again staring into the fiscal abyss. But this time, the trigger is not a pandemic or a European land war. It is a widening Middle East conflict that has already sent oil prices soaring by 50 per cent since early March, pushing up to 29 African currencies into free fall.
- [How a war in Iran is rewriting Africa’s Gulf-reliant energy security rulebook](https://theexchange.africa/war-in-iran-strait-of-hormuz/): It began, as these things usually do, with a distant plume of smoke on a satellite image and a terse statement from the Pentagon: operation Epic Fury. But for the millions of commuters in Lagos, Nairobi, and Johannesburg, the war in Iran has become an intimate, visceral reality, felt not in the geopolitics of think-tank reports, but in the sudden, sharp rise of the diesel pump and the quiet dread of another round of inflation.
- [ER Group plants flag in Nairobi, rolls out $255M bet on East African integration](https://theexchange.africa/er-group-eac-integration-logistics/): For companies in Africa exploring expansion, patience is not usually a virtue associated with the word “conglomerate.” Yet, when the newly formed ER Group announced this week the establishment of a regional office in Nairobi and the creation of a MUR 1 billion ($21.2 million) investment fund, the signal was less about the frantic chase for market share and more about the strategic solidification of a ten-year roadmap.
- [Kulipa raises $6.2 million to power real-world stablecoin spending for global fintechs](https://theexchange.africa/kulipa-real-world-stablecoin-fintech/): Kulipa, a Paris-based stablecoin-native card issuing infrastructure platform, has announced it has raised $6.2 million in seed funding co-led by Flourish Ventures and 1kx, with participation from White Star Capital and Fabric Ventures.
- [Nigerian fintech Unicorn Moniepoint seizes 78% stake in Kenya’s Sumac Microfinance Bank](https://theexchange.africa/moniepoint-sumac-microfinance/): Nigeria’s most valuable fintech unicorn, Moniepoint Inc., has officially crossed into East African territory. Moniepoint Inc., the Lagos-based digital banking platform that processes over $250 billion in annual transactions, announced today the completion of its acquisition of a 78 per cent majority stake in Sumac Microfinance Bank Limited, a deal that marks its formal entry into Kenya’s fiercely competitive financial services landscape.
- [Africa’s venture capital outlook: from concentration to diversification](https://theexchange.africa/africas-venture-capital-2026/): Africa accounts for 18 per cent of the global population and 5 per cent of global GDP, yet, on average, only a mere 0.6 per cent of global venture capital finds its way to the continent annually.
- [Why the Future of Customs is Agentic Artificial Intelligence](https://theexchange.africa/agentic-ai-customs-processes/): For too long, digital trade platforms have functioned in environments where vendors hold the "keys" to the code. In the agentic AI era, this dynamic is being inverted. Properly designed AI frameworks return ownership to the state.
- [Digital policing debate grows as expert warns technology must follow the law](https://theexchange.africa/digital-policing-data-privacy/): Governments across the world are turning to digital policing systems to improve crime detection, manage information and respond faster to security threats, but North-West University (NWU) legal expert Advocate Justice Khoza say the expansion of these technologies is raising new questions about privacy, accountability and constitutional rights.
- [Africa private sector CEOs urged to listen to the ‘voice of the people’ for resilient growth](https://theexchange.africa/africas-private-sector-ceos/): Africa’s private sector leaders and investors have been urged to treat public attitude data as a core strategic asset rather than an optional extra. According to Afrobarometer, the continent’s leading public opinion research network, citizen perceptions of economic conditions, trust in institutions, and lived realities directly shape consumer behaviour, investment climates, and long-term business performance.
- [Avenews and Kenya Fresh Produce Consortium target 10 million livelihoods in bid to plug $2bn agri-financing gap](https://theexchange.africa/avenews-kenya-agri-financing-gap/): In the push to revolutionize how agricultural trade is financed in East Africa, Avenews Kenya, a data-driven agri-fintech, has entered into a strategic partnership with the Fresh Produce Consortium of Kenya (FPCK).
- [Why investors are rushing to Zimbabwe’s Special Economic Zones](https://theexchange.africa/zimbabwes-special-economic-zones/): Zimbabwe's Special Economic Zones (SEZs) represent the future of industrialization in the country serving as a catalyst to development in the selected key regions. With special economic provisions, SEZs in Zimbabwe are pitched to be the driving force of the country's development.
- [4G Capital secures $2m GIF Growth funding to bridge East Africa’s ‘missing middle’ credit gap](https://theexchange.africa/4g-capital-east-africa-sme-credit/): Now, 4G Capital, a Nairobi-based fintech, is building a bridge between these two worlds and is getting a big funding boost. The company has secured a $2 million strategic investment from GIF Growth, the growth-stage vehicle of the Global Innovation Fund, to expand its hybrid business lending model targeting borrowers in Kenya and Uganda.
- [Women developers missing link in Africa’s tech pipeline as opportunities open up](https://theexchange.africa/women-developers-africa/): Tunisia stands out as a continental leader, reaching 24 per cent women developers by 2024, the highest on the continent, driven by a decade of focused growth and inclusion efforts. By contrast, major tech hubs such as Morocco and Egypt count fewer than 14 per cent women developers, despite their large and rapidly expanding tech ecosystems.
- [Kakuzi returns to profit as Kenyan superfood exporter navigates geopolitical headwinds](https://theexchange.africa/kakuzi-geopolitical-headwinds/): Kakuzi Plc, the Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed superfoods grower and one of Africa’s largest exporters of avocados, macadamias and blueberries, has staged a sharp financial recovery, posting a Ksh387.5mn ($3 million) after-tax profit for the full year to December 2025.
- [Equity Group backs global investors eyeing DRC’s multi-billion-dollar frontier](https://theexchange.africa/equity-global-investors-eyeing-drc/): As the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) solidifies its role as the engine room of the global green energy transition, a seven-day high-profile trade mission in Lubumbashi and Kolwezi is offering Kenyan and international investors a rare first-mover advantage into the mineral-rich Katanga region’s expanding ecosystem.
- [Holili-Taveta border: trade surges but non-tariff barriers threaten June deadline](https://theexchange.africa/holili-taveta-border-non-tariff-barriers/): The Holili-Taveta border post, straddling the frontier between northern Tanzania and southern Kenya, has emerged as a rare bright spot in East Africa’s push for deeper economic integration.
- [The geopolitics of anti-corruption as global advisory firms face debarment in the Horn of Africa](https://theexchange.africa/horn-of-africa-anti-corruption/): Yet, as these gatekeepers are now found to be picking the locks, a profound geopolitical shift is underway. While Washington-based institutions double down on punitive compliance, rival powers, notably China and the Gulf states, are offering the Horn of Africa a bypass: infrastructure financing without the intrusive governance conditions that have now ensnared the West’s own trusted advisors.
- [Iran war halts expected lowering of borrowing rates in Africa](https://theexchange.africa/iran-war-africa-inflation/):  The earlier expected lowering of borrowing rates across Africa's financial institutions has come to a grinding halt owing to the Iran war.
- [Why Kenyan product managers now out-earn engineers in the battle for tech talent](https://theexchange.africa/product-managers-software-engineers-salary/): For the first time, the average total monthly cost for a Product Manager in Nairobi has surged past that of a Senior Software Engineer, flipping the traditional hierarchy of the global outsourcing market.
- [Equity’s pan-African pivot pays off as regional arm drives half of record $582 million profit](https://theexchange.africa/equity-group-profit-2/): Equity Group has delivered the most profitable year in Kenyan corporate history, with regional subsidiaries now accounting for nearly half of the lender's banking profits, a landmark validation of its long-standing bet on pan-African expansion.
- [Why Kenya’s creative economy is firmly on investors’ radar](https://theexchange.africa/kenyas-creative-economy/): Kenya's creative economy is evolving from cultural promise into investment reality. Spanning film, music, digital content, gaming, fashion, and sports, the sector has emerged as one of Africa's most dynamic growth frontiers, propelled by digital adoption, favorable demographics, progressive policy reform, and deepening international partnerships.
- [The Best Dividend-Paying Shares on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) for Q2 2026](https://theexchange.africa/best-dividend-paying-shares-on-the-nse/): This analysis identifies the best dividend-paying shares on the NSE for the coming quarter, focusing on companies with sustainable payout ratios, strong free cash flow generation, and the resilience to maintain distributions even as the operating environment remains uncertain.
- [Kenya’s appeal’s court upholds cybercrime law but strikes down ‘fake news’ offences](https://theexchange.africa/cybercrime-law-kenya/): On 6 March 2026, the Court of Appeal in Nairobi issued a landmark decision on the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act (2018) (Act). The Court held that sections 22 and 23 of the Act – which criminalised publication of certain forms of 'false' information – are unconstitutional.
- [The Iran War and the Horn of Africa: An Accelerator, Not a Sideshow](https://theexchange.africa/iran-war-and-the-horn-of-africa/): The Iran war is unlikely to be short, precise, or containable. The current trajectory points towards a measured and growing confrontation. Tehran has prepared for this scenario for decades. The gradual escalation it is now showing suggests that it is bracing for a longer conflict. More sophisticated missile capabilities and proxies are being held back. During the earlier 12-day confrontation, Iranian attacks intensified roughly a week into hostilities. Progression in a similar manner is possible, particularly if the United States resorts to ground troops.
- [Can new trade resolutions turn East Africa into an industrial hub?](https://theexchange.africa/trade-east-africa-eac/): Behind the closed doors of a Nairobi summit late February, the future of East African trade was being redrawn. Against a backdrop of unmet targets and frustrated potential, the East African Business Council, alongside the East African Community and the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA), gathered nearly 500 delegates to tackle a stubborn problem: how to make regional trade actually work.
- [CNN just named it a must-visit. Now Arusha is throwing a party to prove why](https://theexchange.africa/arusha-best-place-to-visit-2026-by-cnn/): Arusha is commanding the spotlight again. Fresh off its crowning as one of CNN's 'Must Visit Places for 2026,' Tanzania's safari capital is gearing up to host the second edition of the Cape to Cairo Arusha International festival. From the majestic heights of Mount Kilimanjaro to the endless plains of the Serengeti, this city already serves as the gateway to Africa's most iconic landscapes. Now, from May 28 to June 3, 2026, it will transform into the continent's cultural heartbeat, welcoming over 5,000 participants for a week-long celebration of Pan-African sports, culture, and unity.
- [Standard Bank smashes through targets with 19.3% ROE as African operations drive growth](https://theexchange.africa/standard-bank-net-earnings/): Standard Bank Group delivered a strong performance in 2025, blowing past the financial targets it set four years ago and rewarding shareholders with a double-digit dividend payout even as it resets its ambitions for the next cycle.
- [The Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX) launch guide: what global investors need to know about the new market](https://theexchange.africa/ethiopian-securities-exchange-investors/): When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially rang the bell to launch the Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX) in January 2025, it marked the end of a half-century hiatus in Africa's second most populous country.
- [Who is Rostam Azizi, the Tanzanian tycoon eyeing lion’s stake in Nation Media Group?](https://theexchange.africa/rostam-azizi-nation-media-group/): Who, exactly, is Rostam Azizi, the man behind Taarifa Ltd?
- [U.S.-Africa Strategic Investment Working Group is on. Here is what it means for investments](https://theexchange.africa/u-s-africa-investment/): Early this year, a strategic shift in U.S.-Africa economic relations took place. The U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and AUC Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf signed an agreement establishing the U.S.-AUC Strategic Infrastructure and Investment Working Group (SIWG).
- [From Exchange to Infrastructure – How Binance Underpins Crypto](https://theexchange.africa/binance-crypto/): Some people still think of Binance as just an exchange. This label made sense when crypto platforms were used primarily for trading. Yet today, Binance is more accurately described as crypto infrastructure, a foundational set of rails that the crypto economy depends on for liquidity, custody, fiat and stablecoin access, payments settlement, and increasingly, institutional-grade services.
- [Inside the $9 billion U.S.-backed critical minerals deal in DRC and what it means for China](https://theexchange.africa/critical-minerals-glencore-orion/): In the red-dirt hills of Katanga province, where trucks haul copper cathode past Chinese-built roads and Congolese miners descend shafts first dug by colonial-era Belgian prospectors, a new phase in the global scramble for critical minerals is underway. The protagonists this time are not the familiar Chinese state-owned enterprises that have dominated this industry for two decades, but an unlikely alliance: a Swiss mining giant, a U.S. private equity firm, and the full weight of the American foreign policy apparatus.
- [Africa’s export trade pivots to Asia as U.S. terms falter, Standard Bank survey shows](https://theexchange.africa/africas-export-trade-u-s-tariffs/): For the first time, a significant number of firms in Africa now view Asia, led by economic giant China, as their most critical trading partner, the latest Standard Bank Africa Trade Barometer shows. This shift is accelerated by the tariff-heavy policies of U.S. President Donald Trump administration and the uncertainly surrounding the short-term nature of the renewed U.S. trade pact.
- [Mobile trading trends in Africa: the growing demand for forex trading apps](https://theexchange.africa/mobile-trading-trends-in-africa-forex-trading/): That reality has shifted as mobile-first platforms place forex markets directly on your handset, supported by expanding internet coverage and affordable data bundles. Across major cities and smaller towns alike, you can now monitor currency pairs, execute trades and manage risk from the same device you use for messaging and mobile money. This democratisation of access has contributed to higher retail participation, stronger interest in financial literacy and a growing appetite for alternative income streams. Mobile trading sits within Africa's broader digital transformation, where telecom networks, fintech innovation and youthful demographics converge to redefine how economic opportunity is accessed and experienced on a daily basis.
- [The Global Kenyan: How Diaspora Professionals Are Arbitraging 2026 Tech Salaries](https://theexchange.africa/global-kenyans-tech-salaries/): They are paid in dollars, euros, or pounds and they spend in Kenyan shillings. They are not part of the “diaspora” in the traditional sense, instead, they are the "Global Kenyans," and they are arbitraging one of the most significant labour market inefficiencies in today’s digital age.
- [Why the Escalating U.S.-Israel-Iran Crisis Threatens to Reverse Africa’s Inflation Fight](https://theexchange.africa/strait-of-hormuz-middle-east-crisis/): Since Saturday, 28 February 2026, the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict has escalated with breathtaking speed. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced a ban on vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Satellite imagery confirmed strikes on Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura refinery, one of the world's largest oil processing facilities, processing approximately 550,000 barrels per day. Two tankers have been damaged near Oman and the UAE. Shipping giant Maersk has halted transit through both the Strait of Hormuz and the Suez Canal.

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