AllAfrica News: Manufacturing

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Softcare, the manufacturer of baby diapers, baby pants, sanitary pads and wet wipes, increased revenue from the Kenyan market by 17.4 percent to about Sh7.2 billion in the first half of 2026, as sales volumes and average selling prices rose.

[Ghanaian Times] Ghana recorded US$2.62 billion in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2025, underscoring the country's resilience and continued appeal to investors despite changing global economic conditions, the Ghana Investment Promotion Authority (GIPA) has said.

[This Day] The Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, and the Nigeria Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited are engaging the Israeli and French manufacturers to produce two next-generation communication satellites for Nigeria.

[allAfrica] Across Africa, the decisive economic contest lies between raw material and finished product. For cotton, it is the distance from fibre to fabric. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, it is the distance from mineral and hydropower wealth to electricity, industrial capacity and productive work. The sectors differ, but the development question is the same: who captures ...

[allAfrica] Kenya is growing more cotton again, but the bigger opportunity lies in what happens after the harvest -- from ginning and spinning to fabric, garments, jobs and industrial investment. For decades, Kenya's cotton story has largely been told from the farm.