Nigeria detained two Binance senior employees and blamed the crypto exchange for crashing the nation’s currency wsj.com/articles/crypt…

Being held hostage at work is terrifying enough-- now imagine work is 1,600 feet underground wsj.com/world/africa/k… via The Wall Street Journal

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has been re-elected, handing him a pivotal role in global efforts to combat climate change thanks to his country’s vast forests and rich mineral reserves ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ wsj.com/articles/congo…

A metal refiner in a sleepy South African town has found itself inundated by Western automakers pushing to move their EV supply chains away from China ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ wsj.com/articles/why-e…

Billions in U.S. Funding Hasn’t Convinced Developing World to Ditch Coal ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ wsj.com/world/billions…

Visa, Mastercard Want a Slice of Africa’s Mobile Money as E-Commerce on the Continent Surges wsj.com/finance/visa-m…

Evan in court today.

He’s now been held for more than 6 in Russia’s most notorious political prison.

Not one piece of evidence has been submitted to justify his wrongful detention. Keep him and his family in your thoughts.

It’s not just the U.S. In August, three African countries began deliberations over banning TikTok. Senegal actually did.

Alexandra Wexler Snow and I talked to TikTok about how it scrambled to respond.

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A fire in Johannesburg killed at least 74 people in a city-owned building occupied by at least 200 squatter families in what was once the glitzy downtown of South Africa’s largest city wsj.com/articles/johan…

U.S. officials are offering grants to companies willing to support workers in Congo’s dangerous informal mining sector ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ wsj.com/articles/in-qu…

The Brics group of emerging nations has invited six additional countries to join the bloc ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ wsj.com/articles/iran-…

Shedding some light on the BRICS expansion ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ youtu.be/9wvcg0ry70U

The debate among the Brics nations about whether and how to expand will likely feature prominently during the group’s first in-person leaders’ summit since the pandemic @wsj wsj.com/articles/brics…

Western companies are investing in facilities to process battery metals in countries such as Tanzania, Mauritius and South Africa, aiming to bypass China wsj.com/articles/race-… via The Wall Street Journal

Prosus CEO Bob van Dijk says in a WSJ interview that the European investment firm is bullish about China’s consumer internet industry wsj.com/articles/prosu…