Global oil prices climbed more than 4% after fighting between the United States and Iran intensified around the Strait of Hormuz and raised fresh concerns over supply disruptions and tighter crude ...

Namibia has signed a series of agreements with China covering infrastructure, mining, energy, agriculture and trade during President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s state visit to Beijing. The Southern ...

Nigeria’s crude oil production rose to an average of 1.56 million barrels per day in June, its highest monthly level since April 2020. Data released by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory ...

South Africa has unveiled plans to build a strategic oil reserve of 36 million barrels, its largest fuel stockpile since the apartheid era. This comes as the country moves to strengthen energy ...

In this interview with Impact Newswire, Osato Igbinadolor, Country Manager for East Africa at Worldpanel by Numerator, explains why Kenyan consumers are shopping more often but buying less, how years ...

While American brain-computer interface companies such as Neuralink are betting that the future lies beneath the skull, China is pursuing the opposite strategy: make neurotechnology wearable, ...

A week-by-week look at four Saturdays in June and July shows the same story every time: Kenya’s currency market is shut, and the chart still finds a number to plot. That number is not the shilling.

China’s National Audit Office says state-owned lender Bank of China underpaid about 2.4 billion yuan ($335 million) in taxes, according to a report, underscoring Beijing’s tighter scrutiny of tax ...

OpenAI has launched GPT-5.6, its newest family of artificial intelligence models, while reaffirming that the technology will remain the preferred model powering Microsoft 365 Copilot. The release ...

Stablecoin issuer Circle’s shares rose more than 7% on Friday after the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) approved the company to operate a national trust bank, allowing it to ...

Point-of-sale (POS) terminals have overtaken automated teller machines (ATMs) as Nigerians’ preferred channel for accessing cash, with transactions surging to record levels as consumers increasingly ...

Jumia reported stronger second-quarter earnings as revenue rose 25% year over year to $45.6 million, driven by robust growth in Nigeria and improving operating performance across regions. Operating ...