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African governments are borrowing to drive growth, but rising debt costs and weak revenues are forcing tougher fiscal rules and sharper trade-offs between stability and development.

Kofi Abunu says unreliable power and diesel reliance are embedding energy costs across storage, processing and distribution, keeping Nigerian food prices elevated.

At Lagos’ Africa Business Convention, the real debate wasn’t ambition but whether Africa’s financial infrastructure can turn ideas into investable, cross-border scale. At scale now

Nigeria’s digital lending boom is widening credit access and fuelling growth, but weak regulation, high defaults and tax gaps threaten fiscal stability across Africa’s fintech surge.
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Absa maintains that while the country’s recent financial market reforms are encouraging, it will only consider entry once the rules are less restrictive.

Banks in Egypt and Nigeria are likely to see profits drop in 2026 as central banks accelerate interest rate cuts following a sharp slowdown in inflation and increasingly favorable macroeconomic conditions, S&P Global said in its latest Africa banking outlook.

South Africa has joined Afreximbank, completing the lender’s continental membership and strengthening its institutional standing as it faces rating pressure and tighter global funding conditions.

Overall, business momentum eased across most of the reviewed markets in January, with seven of the eight economies registering a softer PMI reading compared with December, except South Africa.