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Idrissa Nassa's Coris Holding and Vista Bank are jointly requesting $45 million from the IFC to expand SME lending in Senegal, separate from the $10 million Chad facility already in the pipeline for Coris.
Delaware's Chancery Court dismissed a stockholder challenge to Robert F. Smith's Vista Equity over its $4.6 billion take-private of cybersecurity firm KnowBe4.
Ghana's Minerals Commission confirmed active talks with Gold Fields over the Tarkwa mine lease renewal, setting new conditions covering local value creation, technology transfer and community development.
Ghana's AG sued Jospong founder Siaw Agyepong and his firm Plantpool over $2 million in alleged overpayments on a $178 million road contract.
Strive Masiyiwa's Cassava Technologies has backed a new Kigali foundation to provide compute grants and skills training for African AI builders.
Johann Rupert's Reinet Investments is sitting on R110.1 billion ($6.72 billion) in cash after selling its two largest holdings and leaving the question of what comes next wide open.
Jim Ovia, Adebayo Ogunlesi, James Mwangi and Sam Jonah have been named Lifetime Achievement Award winners at the 16th African Business Leadership Awards 2026.
One large investor triggered the redemption cap at Robert F. Smith's Vista Credit fund, cutting other investors' quarterly payouts to about 50 percent.
Two Lee-Chin companies have sued FirstCaribbean Bank in the Cayman Islands to block a forced sale of his $35 million Seven Mile Beach estate.
Tanzania's Amsons Group is in advanced talks to acquire Geneva-based Oryx Energies for $250 million, including its Tanzania fuel and LPG assets.
Byron Allen acquired 10.7 percent of Starz for $25 million and says the network's poison pill defense will not stop him from buying the entire company.
Zinox founder Leo Stan Ekeh commissioned a N500 million AI center at his Owerri alma mater, the first of its kind in Eastern Nigeria.
Discovery CEO Adrian Gore has left Business Unity South Africa after four years to chair Business Leadership South Africa from May 2026.
Hisham Talaat Moustafa served nine years in prison, walked out in 2017 and built Egypt's largest listed real estate developer into an $8 billion annual sales machine.
Tetracore GTL has signed a technology agreement with UK-based Velocys to develop a 5,000 BPD gas-to-liquids plant in Atakabo, Ogun State, Nigeria.
