What: Africa Financial Summit (AFIS) 2026 Who: African Development Bank Group (Main Partner), the Government of Angola (Host country), International Finance Corporation (Co-host); Jeune Afrique Media Group When: 3-4 November 2026 Where: Luanda, Angola The African Development Bank Group will participate in the Africa Financial Summit (AFIS) 2026, to be held in Luanda, Angola, on…
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot echoed those sentiments, calling on Israeli authorities to “urgently halt this criminal violence and guarantee the safety of civilian populations”. Poland’s foreign affairs ministry also called for a “firm response” from Israeli authorities and for “an end to the spiral of violence in the West Bank”. The EU condemned the…
France is “putting the house in order” and is capable of slashing its burdensome budget deficit, despite the political turmoil facing the country, the head of the country’s central bank insists. The country is currently subject to the EU’s excessive deficit procedure, with the bloc recommending Paris bring its national deficit closer to 3% of…
Nairobi — The African Union (AU) will push for reforms to the global financial system, improved debt resolution mechanisms and stronger financial independence for the continent during the 2026 International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Thailand. The meetings, scheduled for October 12-18, will provide a platform for the AU to advance Africa’s…
Standard Bank Group CEO Sim Tshabalala Standard Bank Group will invest as much as US$200-million in OPay, the Nigeria-focused fintech that filed on Friday to list its shares in New York. Standard Bank said it had signed a subscription agreement but did not disclose the amount. That detail is in the registration statement OPay filed…
Israel says that work has begun on a development project around an outdoor pool in the occupied West Bank filled after settlers illegally diverted water from a Palestinian village over the summer. Instead of restoring the water to the village of Fasayil, near Jericho, Israeli authorities are working to formalise what has now been termed…
Standard Bank and Huawei executives signing a strategic cloud partnership agreement Standard Bank has deepened its strategic technology collaboration with Huawei as the group accelerates the modernisation of its banking platforms to support growth, innovation and greater financial inclusion across the continent. Announced at Huawei Connect 2026 in Shanghai, the expanded partnership will focus on…
Bank Zero CEO Yatin Narsai Bank Zero broke even for the first time in August, four years and 10 months after opening to the public. In the same month it took on about half a million end customers from remittance group Mukuru, more than doubling the number of people on its platform. Chairman Michael Jordaan…
Bank Zero says it was built to break-even on a fraction of the customer base a new bank requires. Bank Zero has reached its first monthly break-even point, less than five years after launching to the public in October 2021. According to the digital bank, this was reached in August 2026, following more than a…
Jordan’s King Abdullah II decried Israeli settler incursions in the occupied West Bank as a strategy of ‘forced displacement’ that should be considered a war crime. Published On 22 Sep 202622 Sep 2026 Share ‘War crime’: Jordan’s king slams Israeli West Bank expansion on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo
