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“Vanilla has become one of Uganda’s most promising high-value export crops.” According to Agriculture state minister Fred Bwino Kyakulaga, the country is the world’s second-largest vanilla producer for the second consecutive year, behind only Madagascar. zurl.co/1Sl9H

A 90,000 metric ton cargo of gasoline from Nigeria's Dangote refinery will be sold out of the region for the first time and bound for Asia, a source familiar with the matter. reuters.com/business/energ…

India's total fertility rate has dropped to 1.9 births per woman — below the replacement level of 2.1, or the average number of children a female needs to have to maintain a stable population size. Read more: s.nikkei.com/40dbQM2

Hilton plans to more than triple its African portfolio to over 160 hotels, while Marriott expects to add 50 properties. zurl.co/ggsck

America added 1,000 new millionaires every day last year -“That’s one takeaway from the UBS 2025 Global Wealth Report…growing significance of “everyday millionaires,” or “EMILLIs,” defined as individuals with between $1 million and $5 million in assets.” qz.com/us-millionaire…

China likely produced 60% of all antimony supply in 2024, according to the United States Geological Survey. Much of antimony mined in other countries is also sent to China for processing. Beijing added the mineral to its export control list last September reuters.com/business/autos…

“Sub-Saharan Africa received the lowest share of foreign direct investment inflows of all developing economy regions during 2012-23, new World Bank research showed.” semafor.com/article/06/18/…

300 million connections in 4.5 years will be some feat.

“Prices of palm oil and soyabean oil have surged after the conflict between Israel and Iran pushed up energy costs and the Trump administration proposed increasing the amount of biofuels mixed into diesel and petrol.”

GCC Nations Expand Energy Presence in Africa - goo.gl/alerts/dwznKJ

"Zimbabwe plans to raise over $9 billion to boost energy access, with a goal of more than doubling the country's power production from hydro, wind, solar, and biomass plants."bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"Such a shift could open up space for low-income countries to step in. If they were able to capture even half of the vacated export markets...they could more than double their current exports to $2-2.5 trillion." Project Syndicate prosyn.org/ArcbbjD

Qatar is in advanced talks to invest $3.5 billion in a tourism project on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, the latest potential Gulf backing for the North African nation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Africa's push for local currency payments systems — once little more than an aspiration — is finally making concrete gains, bringing the promise of less costly trade to a continent long hobbled by resource-sapping dollar transactions reut.rs/4ligd0E

MSCI says it needs more time to assess the impact of foreign exchange reforms in Nigeria, suggesting the global index provider is not yet ready to restore the West African’s country’s frontier-market status bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Niger plans to nationalise Somair, a large uranium project it jointly owns with French nuclear fuel producer Orano, in a significant escalation of tensions between the west African country’s military government and the state-owned company. on.ft.com/3ZHb75D

China floods Brazil with cheap EVs triggering backlash - "Brazilian auto-industry officials and labor leaders worry that the vast influx of cars from BYD and other Chinese automakers will set back domestic auto production and hurt jobs." reuters.com/business/finan…

World Bank Group considers $500 million boost for South Africa's transmission expansion reuters.com/sustainability…

"Africa's commercial banks typically rely on overseas counterparts, through so-called correspondent banking relationships, to facilitate settlements of international payments...That adds significantly to transaction costs..." reuters.com/world/africa/u…

South Africa is courting private investment for an ambitious plan to add 14,500 km of new lines and enhanced transformer capacity over the next decade, at an estimated total cost of $25 billion. reuters.com/sustainability…