Gabon not yet submitted formal request for financing program at IMF

SA headline consumer inflation slowed to 3.5%

Zambia’s Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock has suspended all livestock import permits from South Africa (SA) following the escalating outbreak of Foot‑and‑Mouth Disease (FMD).

SA Rand was muted in early trade on Wednesday

The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in partnership with the Africa Guarantee Fund and Space AI, has launched a major Climate‑Smart Dairy Value Chain Transformation Project aimed at improving productivity and incomes for more than 1.8 million smallholder farmers.

The South African (SA) Reserve Bank (SARB) has proposed phasing out the prime lending rate and using its policy rate as the benchmark for retail and commercial loans from 2027.