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27 stories on the Trade & Mobility desk in the last 30 days (27 this week). Latest: Ethiopian Airlines signs agreement with Boeing for 777-8F, 777F freighters to expand cargo fleet. Updated 1 October 2026.

Latest raise: Ethiopian Airlines signs agreement with Boeing for 777-8F, 777F freighters to expand cargo fleet →

• Ethiopian Airlines signs agreement with Boeing for 777-8F, 777F freighters to expand cargo fleet ↗

  1 October 2026 · raise card

• Africa’s largest airline orders 10 Boeing freighters, secures option to buy 8 more as demand grows ↗

  1 October 2026

• Can A South African-Built Super App OMN1 Disrupt The Platform Economy? ↗

  1 October 2026

• Tamrose expands into Angola with five-year offshore support contract ↗

  30 September 2026

• Abu Dhabi Crown Prince’s $300 billion wealth empire eyes new trade corridors stretching into Africa ↗

  2 October 2026 · raise card

• Momenta Robotaxi Expansion Targets Dubai and Europe ↗

  30 September 2026

• Tango Brook hits 150 corporate customers one year after launch ↗

  27 September 2026

• Electric Bikes Are Quietly Winning Africa’s Delivery Fleets One Battery Swap At A Time ↗

  30 September 2026

• Nigerian startup GoLemon shuts down, 33 jobs affected ↗

  30 July 2026 · raise card

• Driving South Africa’s Transport Into The Intelligent Era: Huawei Launches 12 Solutions Across Rail, Road, Ports And Aviation ↗

  30 July 2026

• African airlines defy global trend with 7.1% cargo capacity drop ↗

  31 July 2026

• Nigeria’s On-Demand Delivery Graveyard Claims Latest Victim Of A Model That Can’t Survive ↗

  30 July 2026

• Zambia’s BusNStay Doubles Down on Delivery-on-Bus Model with FasterCapital Support ↗

  1 August 2026

• GoLemon is latest Nigerian food delivery startup to shut down ↗

  29 July 2026

• GoLemon is latest Nigerian food delivery startup to shut down ↗

  29 July 2026

• US-sanctioned Iranian shadow-fleet tanker freed after Somali pirate hijacking ↗

  26 September 2026

• Same region that rejected Africa’s most ambitious energy project valued at $20 billion from the world’s wealthiest black man signs $7 billion DP World port deal ↗

  25 September 2026 · raise card

• UAC Nigeria to sell 43% stake in DP World Logistics to TGI Group ↗

  25 September 2026 · raise card

• North Africa’s largest economy unveils 8 logistics corridors linking its ports to African markets ↗

  24 September 2026

• American aerospace company that shut down and was later acquired delivers its new 480B turbine aircraft to Africa, its first delivery in years ↗

  22 September 2026 · raise card

• Keeping Business Moving: Managing Trade-Corridor Risk in Q4 ↗

  22 September 2026

• Zipline’s deal with Côte d’Ivoire will scale AI health logistics to 10 hubs, 12 million people ↗

  22 September 2026 · raise card

• Côte d’Ivoire Bets on Zipline to Fix Its Health Care Supply Chain ↗

  22 September 2026

• Yango Eyes Kenya Ride-Hailing Market With SME Fleet Model ↗

  21 September 2026

• AGL taps REasy to launch China-Cameroon shipping service for SMEs ↗

  15 May 2026

• Trazo built a food delivery business in smaller cities. Now it wants to enter Lagos. ↗

  15 May 2026

• Jumia To Lay Off 200 Workers and Employ AI To Reduce Costs ↗

  14 May 2026