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01/09/2026

Liberia's former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has reportedly been charged in connection with an alleged drug trafficking network, as authorities intensify a wider crackdown following major co***ne seizures estimated at $336 million.

The allegations are part of an ongoing investigation, and being charged does not mean she has been found guilty.

The case adds another major development to Liberia's efforts to disrupt large-scale drug trafficking networks.

Credit: TRT Afrika

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01/09/2026

Top 5 Richest African Countries by Savings: Nigeria Leads!

The top five reveal some of Africa’s most economically significant countries and the different sectors driving their financial strength. Egypt ranks fifth with a reported $31.09 billion in savings, followed by Morocco at $41.17 billion and Algeria at $59.56 billion. South Africa takes second place with $67.81 billion, supported by its diversified economy and financial sector. At number one is Nigeria, with a reported $149.32 billion in US dollar savings. From tourism and manufacturing to oil, gas, trade, and financial services, the rankings offer an interesting look at the scale and diversity of economic resources across the continent.

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01/09/2026

Type “MOVE” in the comments and I’ll send you The Africa Relocation Blueprint.

The blackouts are over. If you wrote South Africa off in 2023, you wrote off a country that no longer exists.

455 consecutive days without load-shedding. Winter 2026 had zero hours of it. Eskom’s availability hit a six-year high and diesel spend fell 83%.

Here is the part nobody puts in the celebration posts: South Africans traded blackouts for bills. Electricity inflation is running at 8.1% against headline inflation of 4.3%. The lights stay on. They cost more.

What a month actually costs, excluding rent: around $744 for a single person in Cape Town, around $2,690 for a family of four. Durban runs about 12% cheaper.

And most diaspora movers only ever price Cape Town, which is the outlier in this country, not the benchmark. Joburg costs about 4% more day to day and roughly 42% less to rent. A Sandton one-bedroom is about $528 a month against $750 on the Atlantic Seaboard.

Only 14% of South Africans have medical aid. Private healthcare here is genuinely world-class and you will be paying for it privately — roughly $624 a month for a family of four on a mid-tier plan.

The new infrastructure risk isn’t power. It’s water. Gqeberha’s reservoirs have run near-empty with full dams behind them, which is a treatment and governance failure rather than a drought. Ask about the municipality you’re moving into. The country-level answer will mislead you.

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01/09/2026

Sierra Leone Land Prices: Bo vs. Unknown Location

One of the most common questions I receive is simple: how much should land in Sierra Leone actually cost? In this Africa Deal Room conversation, I walk through a real opportunity that came across my desk and explain how I evaluate whether a land deal is worth pursuing. Rather than discussing investment in the abstract, we look at actual land, current asking prices, and the factors I consider before deciding whether to participate. For anyone in the diaspora thinking seriously about buying property in Sierra Leone, understanding the market starts with seeing real deals and learning how to distinguish reasonable pricing from an overpriced opportunity.

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01/09/2026

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 🇹🇹

64 years ago today, two islands at the bottom of the Caribbean chain stopped being a colony.

If you’ve never been sure exactly where Trinidad and Tobago sits — it’s about seven miles off the northeast coast of Venezuela. Closer to South America than to most of the Caribbean.

On the night of 30 August 1962, bells rang across both islands. The British flag came down for the last time and the red, white and black went up in its place. By morning, Dr Eric Williams was on the radio speaking to the country as its first Prime Minister.

Here’s the part that doesn’t get said enough: about 1.4 million Trinbagonians live at home, and roughly 334,000 live abroad. One in five. Most of them in the US, Canada and the UK.

And one more thing. This page covers Africa, but the vision was never only continental. Same ships, same century, different shore. Accra, Kingston, Port of Spain, Freetown, Brooklyn — one story. We haven’t told it that way often enough. That changes now.

Drop your city in the comments. Let’s see how far this diaspora reaches.

31/08/2026

Eman Mabrouk is calling attention to a conversation she says Arab society often avoids: anti-Blackness within Arab communities.

She describes it as a form of racial oppression comparable to “the Jim Crow Arab edition,” and challenges people who speak out against injustice in Gaza while remaining silent about anti-Black racism affecting Black women within their own communities.

Her broader argument is about accountability: condemning oppression outside your community while ignoring it at home creates a culture where anti-Blackness can continue unchecked.

“The call is coming from inside the house.”

Credit: Sumud Podcast

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31/08/2026

Big money is moving to Africa. Is yours?

Two things were true this week and both matter.

Liberia agreed to take 1,200 deportees from the US, one of the biggest deals Washington has struck with an African country. Monrovia says it screened the list and took no payment. Nobody has confirmed whether any of those people hold US court orders protecting them from removal. At the SADC summit in Durban, the room turned angry over attacks on African migrants inside South Africa.

Then the other half of the week.

AGOA lived. The Senate attached a two-year extension to a funding bill and passed it 90 to 6, keeping African goods entering the US duty free through the end of 2028. The House voted for three years back in January, so they still have to agree on one number.

In Kenya, M-Pesa's Ziidi Trader now sells shares one at a time instead of a hundred. In its first days it carried more than half the orders on the Nairobi exchange and a sliver of the money. Millions of small tickets, not much capital yet. Watch what happens when it is both.

Here is what I tell my people every time. Africa is not a plan. A specific place is. I bought land in Sierra Leone in 2017 and I am building on it right now, because I never wanted my right to be here sitting in someone else's file cabinet.

Two things worth moving on before they close. Founders Fund Africa is putting ~$20,000 to ~$50,000 into founders in music, film, media and design, closing 28 August. Ghana's New Voices fiction contest is open to anyone of Ghanaian heritage anywhere, closing 24 August.

Comment "AFRICA" and I'll send you Africa Insights Weekly. One email, every Friday, six things worth knowing.

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31/08/2026

Top African Countries With Highest US Dollar Savings Revealed!

Which African economies have accumulated the largest savings measured in US dollars? Using World Bank data, this countdown looks at the countries building some of the continent’s strongest financial reserves and the industries helping drive that position. The Democratic Republic of Congo enters the list at number ten with approximately $13.27 billion, supported by its vast copper and cobalt resources. Ghana follows at number nine with $16.87 billion, while Kenya ranks eighth with $18.11 billion, reflecting the strength of its diversified economy. Angola takes the seventh position with approximately $27.1 billion, backed by its oil wealth and continued efforts to broaden its economic base. The rankings offer an important look at where financial capacity is being built across Africa and what that could mean for future growth.

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31/08/2026

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You cannot do South Africa in one trip. Stop trying.

The Cape and the bush are 1,600km apart and run on opposite seasons. Most people try to squeeze both into ten days and end up rushing two trips instead of enjoying one.

September is the only month that really works twice — Cape wildflowers and Kruger's dry-season game viewing overlap for about six weeks. May is the best value month nobody talks about. December to February is the worst of both: peak heat, thick bush, peak prices.

Two entry rules changed this year and barely anyone has covered them. Since 1 July every traveller files an online declaration within 24 hours of departure. The new electronic travel authority went live on 12 August and is being switched on nationality by nationality.

And one correction worth making loudly: those ""32 African countries you can visit visa-free"" lists going around include Nigeria. They are wrong. The exemption covers diplomatic and official passports only. An ordinary Nigerian passport still needs a visa — check before you book, not at the airport.

On safety, here is the honest version. The murder rate is 36.6 per 100,000 and it has fallen every quarter for three years, down 20.7% in two. But 73% of serious assaults happen inside homes and four provinces carry most of it. What actually reaches visitors is robbery and smash-and-grab. The US State Department has South Africa at Level 2, not Level 3.

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31/08/2026

Sierra Leone Land Prices: Bo vs. Unknown Location

When evaluating land in Sierra Leone, location changes the economics dramatically. In 2023, I purchased five acres just outside Bo for approximately $6,000—about $1,200 per acre. Bo is widely regarded as Sierra Leone’s second city, with its own commercial activity, residential growth, infrastructure, and nightlife beyond Freetown. That experience provides an important benchmark as I evaluate newer land opportunities at substantially different price points. The larger lesson is not that every parcel is automatically a good deal, but that diaspora buyers need to understand what land is actually worth in different parts of the country before deciding whether an asking price makes sense.

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