Beyond Real Estate Companies
Our content explores the real estate sector beyond traditional property companies, analyzing investment strategies, urban development, asset management, real estate funds, and emerging market dynamics. This section deciphers trends in commercial and residential real estate, innovation in property management, as well as opportunities and risks related to real estate assets.
NIGERIA: Securities Regulator Puts an End to Dangote Refinery IPO Speculation
The Nigerian securities regulator has put an end to speculation surrounding the Dangote Refinery IPO, recalling that no registration application has been validated. Financial intermediaries must withdraw the incriminated advertising materials and refund the collected funds.
Gold Panning: Gabon Suspends All Activities
Gabon has suspended all gold panning activities after a successful security operation aimed at combating massive gold smuggling. This decision aims to formalize production and generate revenue for the state.
SME Financing: Nigeria Secures โฌ200 Million from EIB
Nigeria receives โฌ200 million from the EIB to finance SMEs, targeting ecological transition and technological innovation sectors. This funding aims to break down information asymmetry and offer maturities adapted to production cycles.
Telecommunications: Chad Launches 4 Regulatory Platforms
Chad unveils 4 regulatory platforms to improve the availability of telephone and internet networks, with a real-time monitoring system and financial sanctions for failing operators.
Public Debt: Gabon Launches Audit
Gabon has launched an audit to accurately determine its public debt, with the goal of creating a precise "photograph" of its financial commitments and restoring confidence. The findings are expected in July 2026.
Equatorial Guinea: Government Resigns Over Unmet Objectives
Meeting in an extraordinary session on June 16, 2026, in Malabo, the Council of Ministers, led by Prime Minister Manuel Osa Nsue Nsua, was forced to submit a collective resignation.
Gabon: Vaalco Energy Aims to Triple Production by 2030
Gabon's extractive industry is consolidating its long-term growth prospects thanks to the deployment of new American investment programs. Vaalco Energy's management has officially announced a roadmap that includes a 225% increase in its organic production by 2030. The financial and technical planning relies primarily on the exploitation of offshore fields in the Gabonese Republic, the central platform of the group's African activities.
Air Transport: Air France Ends Operations in Mali
Through an official notification dated June 15, 2026, Air France's management formalized the complete and definitive cessation of activities of its local representation in Mali, effective June 30, 2026. The liquidation of the administrative structure transforms into a structural break, an interruption of service initially presented as temporary.
Tax Revenue Collection: Equatorial Guinea Seeks to Boost Revenue through Digitization
The government examined a technological project submitted by French company N-Soft during a working session held in Malabo on Wednesday, June 10, 2026. The initiative aims to deploy a platform for automatic and real-time supervision of financial flows generated by virtual transactions, e-commerce platforms, and mobile phone services.
Fight against Ebola: CAR allocates 19 billion FCFA for response
The government validated, during an interministerial session held in Bangui on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, under the direction of Prime Minister Fรฉlix Moloua, a national contingency plan against the introduction of the Ebola virus of the Bundibugyo strain.
Gabon: BGFIBank captures 57% of bank credits in Q4 2025
The dominance of the first subsidiary of BGFI Holding Corporation is consolidating in the Central African credit market at the end of the past fiscal year. This performance indicator corresponds to an injection of 313.9 billion FCFA into the economic circuit out of a total national envelope of 548.9 billion FCFA.
WAEMU: Global Budget Deficit Narrows to 4.1% of GDP
The Governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, opened the second ordinary session of the Monetary Policy Committee on June 10, 2026, highlighting the trajectory of consolidation of regional public finances.