Business Logistics Guides: How businesses plan, move, and track goods, people, and payments — covering freight, invoicing, cross-border operations, and supply chain decisions.
Quick answer: MTN charges UGX 12,500 to withdraw UGX 1,000,000 in cash, plus a UGX 5,000 government tax, UGX 17,500 in total. Two separate things stack on top of a withdrawal: MTN’s own fee, and a government tax. They are easy to conflate, so this guide keeps them apart at every step. Withdrawing cash, whether … Read more
Quick answer: withdrawing above GH₵2,000 costs a flat GH₵20. Sending above GH₵1,000 costs a flat GH₵7.50. At Makola Market in Accra, a fabric trader closes out a Friday afternoon by sending her supplier in Kumasi GH₵1,200 for the next batch of prints. She dials *170#, confirms the transfer, and only notices the GH₵7.50 fee once … Read more
On May 24, 2026, a Boeing 777 carrying 284 passengers left Lagos and landed in Bridgetown, Barbados. It was the first scheduled commercial flight ever to connect West Africa directly to the Caribbean. Air Peace, Nigeria’s largest carrier, now operates the route twice monthly, continuing on to Antigua before returning. The airline has also acquired … Read more
Importing From China to Kenya: 6 Business Ideas for 2026 A trader on River Road in Nairobi CBD unpacks a fresh carton of phone chargers and earphones fresh off the SGR from Mombasa. She paid a supplier in Guangzhou in dollars, paid Kenya Revenue Authority in shillings, and now she is about to find out … Read more
Walk through Half Way Tree or Coronation Market on any weekday and the same story repeats at stall after stall: goods bought wholesale, marked up, and sold to people who need them today, not in six weeks. That rhythm has only gotten more urgent since Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica as a Category 5 storm … Read more
Water Hyacinth Packaging: Africa’s Green Wealth Opportunity A fisherman on the Kisumu shoreline of Lake Victoria pushes his boat through a green mat so thick it looks like solid ground. That mat is water hyacinth, and it is choking his catch, tearing his nets, and breeding the mosquitoes that keep his village sick. To him … Read more
A mama mboga at Toi Market in Nairobi sells vegetables all morning, and every sale lands on her Till as a Buy Goods payment, free, the way it is supposed to be. By early afternoon she needs cash to pay her wholesaler, so she walks two stalls down and withdraws KES 8,000 from an M-Pesa … Read more
The Numbers That Nobody Wants to Discuss Open a browser in Lagos, Nairobi, or Johannesburg during Premier League weekend, and the digital landscape tells a story nobody in the development community wants to tell: sports betting platforms are moving more money than most African banks. Betway, Hollywoodbets, and a dozen regional competitors command more daily … Read more
African Markets Are Losing the Diaspora Dollar to Southeast Asia: What the Data Shows By the MetricSuite Editorial Team Sub-Saharan Africa received $56 billion in formal remittances in 2024. That figure — which dwarfs foreign direct investment and overseas development aid into the continent — is the most cited proof that the African diaspora is … Read more
The Wholesale Trap: Why Direct Import Beats Sourcing Agents in Lagos (With Real Numbers) A wholesale trader in Lagos’s Balogun market has seen every option. She can go to Guangzhou and spend two weeks vetting factories. She can use an agent she knows who charges 20% markup. She can wait for the next import cycle … Read more