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Last update: 11 hours agoFood Finance Push: Kenya will host the FINAS 2026 summit in Nairobi (June 30–July 2) to tackle a $100bn annual financing gap that’s choking Africa’s shift from subsistence farming to bankable, commercial food systems—especially for smallholders who produce most of the continent’s food but get less than 5% of formal lending. Migration & Rights: Sierra Leone says the first U.S. “third-country deportees” flight will land May 20, taking up to 300 ECOWAS citizens per year—an arrangement that has already drawn criticism across the region, including cases involving Equatorial Guinea. Diplomacy: Egypt and Equatorial Guinea’s foreign ministers discussed stronger bilateral ties, trade, and capacity-building, with both sides flagging participation in next month’s Alamein Africa Forum. Oil & Governance: A new report argues Africa’s oil wealth—including in Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea—has not translated into poverty reduction, with benefits concentrated among a small elite. Banking Watch: Cameroon has completed a state takeover of Société Générale’s local unit, renaming it General Bank of Cameroon—another sign of European pullbacks and rising state control in regional finance.
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