The DRC has increased Econetix’s Article 6 authorization to a cumulative 2.75 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, covering a programme that includes solar and clean-cooking activities.
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Rwanda’s B+ rating keeps growth and debt in one frame
Fitch’s B+ Stable assessment, as reported by Rwanda’s finance ministry, reflects strong growth potential and concessional financing while keeping fiscal and debt management under scrutiny.
Angola’s first sustainability bond opens a new capital channel
BAI raised Kz57.5 billion in Angola’s first public sustainability-bond offer, creating a listed instrument that links domestic savings to eligible green and social projects.
Malawi’s $165.9 million grant treats resilience as infrastructure
The World Bank-backed INSPIRE-O programme combines adaptive safety nets, climate-smart public works and economic inclusion across all 25 districts and four cities.
What a R2 billion cleaning contract really buys
A Cape Town facilities tender worth more than R2 billion reveals cleaning as a serious procurement market with many service layers, and a map of the capabilities buyers really pay for.
46th SADC Summit across SADC — finance and investment logic for businesses across SADC
Every SADC summit produces an infrastructure and industrialisation theme; almost none of them produce a disclosed financing instrument on the same day. That gap between ambition and capital is the contradiction facing anyone reading the 46th SADC Ordinary Summit, held...
Reform Loan: How the OPEC Fund’s US$150 Million Backs SA’s Energy and Freight Fixes
The OPEC Fund’s US$150m development policy loan backs South Africa’s energy and freight reforms on patient six-year terms — catalytic finance, not a cure.
Angolan kwanza in RTGS across SADC — capital and bankability across SADC member states
Every currency added to a real-time settlement system creates a liability somewhere. A bank that agrees to settle Angolan kwanza directly must hold kwanza balances, fund nostro accounts in Luanda, and accept exposure to a currency that has, over the past decade, been...
Blue Economy growth agenda across SADC — capital and bankability — and what comes next
A regional bloc can declare a sector strategically important without a single lender changing a credit assessment. That is the gap the 3rd Africa Blue Economy Week, held in Luanda from 22 to 25 July, was designed to close — political endorsement on one side, bankable...