Africa Signal Check
Executive Briefing · 12 August 2026
The guardrails answer back
On Monday we wrote that capital formation is outrunning the guardrails built to absorb it. Today the guardrails moved: Europe's first African sovereign bond ETF is live, the IMF anchored Guinea's Simandou windfall, and the US Senate voted to carry AGOA to 2028. Politics now sets the pace.
12 August 202613 pages10 stories
The brief in numbers
- 33.6%
- South Africa's worst jobs print in four years
- $50bn
- Nigeria's deepwater bid round
- $6bn
- Eskom's bondholder standoff
- $250m
- the IMF anchor on Guinea's Simandou windfall
In this briefing
- Business 3
- Regulatory 2
- Political 2
- Macro 1
- Energy & Tech 1
- Health 1
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Prepared by the Kilwa Research team · Series editor: Hinsley Njila · research@kilwa.io
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