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The directive comes at a time when investor sentiment in Ghana’s equities market is slowly improving after years of economic uncertainty.

Data from Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) shows that foreign participation in total equity turnover fell to 28.01% in September 2025, down from 31.28% in August. The last time foreign participation was this low was in August 2010, when it stood at 21.8%.

Nigeria’s subnationals are learning to earn, not just receive. They’re digitising taxes, reforming budgets, and using infrastructure policy to build fiscal resilience beyond Federal allocations.

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Zimbabwe’s exclusion stems from years of economic shocks, hyperinflation, and currency instability that have eroded the balance sheets of local banks and diminished investor confidence.

Dangote Cement Plc has seen its market capitalisation exceed the ₦11 trillion mark after its share price rose 2.42% to ₦665.0 ($0.46) on Friday, making it the second most valuable company on the NGX after BUA Foods, which is valued at ₦12.5trn ($8.58bn).

Over the past decade, at least ten global banking giants — from Barclays to HSBC — have quit Africa, marking one of the most sweeping foreign retreats from the continent’s financial sector in modern history.

Access Holdings Plc, Nigeria’s biggest banking group by assets, will pay $109.6m (₦179.1bn) to complete the acquisition of National Bank of Kenya (NBK) from KCB Group Plc, according to its latest financial report.