The Latin Grammy Winner Touring Brazil With an Accordion and No S
Joao Gomes, Jota.pe and Mestrinho tour Brazil with the album that won the 2025 Latin Grammy. Twenty-seven dates, a Europe...
September 8, 2026Section
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Ty Segall Plays Brazil for the First Time, After Almost Twenty Years
Ty Segall plays his first Brazilian show on November 15 at Audio in Sao Paulo. Prices from R$180, an 18+...
September 8, 2026
Matteo Bocelli Plays Four Brazilian Cities in October, Not Two
Matteo Bocelli plays Sao Paulo, Curitiba, Rio and Belo Horizonte in October. Full prices, the age limits that differ by...
September 8, 2026
The Mars Volta Play Mexico City, and This Time the Whole Catalogue
The Mars Volta play the Pepsi Center WTC on November 29, with a career-spanning set rather than one album. Prices,...
September 8, 2026
Latin America Sports Daily for Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Copa Libertadores quarter-finals begin with Fluminense vs Platense at the Maracanã. Boca Juniors host São Paulo in the Sudamericana.
September 8, 2026
Beéle Plays Santiago in October, at an Arena That Just Changed Its Name
Beele plays Santiago on October 7 at the venue renamed Santander Arena two days ago. Full prices, entry rules, and...
September 8, 2026
David Bisbal Returns to Montevideo With a Crooner Album and 25 Years
David Bisbal plays the Antel Arena in Montevideo on October 17. Prices, times, how to get there, and where the...
September 8, 2026
Zanzibar Has Turned a Doorway in Stone Town Into an Export Industry
The Zanzibar Freddie Mercury Museum in Stone Town has become a fixed stop on the island's cultural tourism circuit, in...
September 8, 2026
Congo Has Worked Out That the Map Is Worth More Than the Mine
DR Congo geological data will move behind a tiered, fee-based system as Kinshasa builds a national databank on its critical...
September 8, 2026
Malawi Has Signed Its Second Chinese Shipping Deal for One Lake in Six Weeks
A Malawi lake transport deal worth US$20m will bring two vessels and a rebuilt Monkey Bay shipyard, the second Chinese...
September 8, 2026
Namibia Succeeded Against HIV, and Is Losing Its American Funding Because of It
Namibia HIV funding from the United States will move from financial assistance to technical cooperation, with more than 29,000 people...
September 8, 2026
Zimbabwe’s Biggest Mobile Operator Is Building Its Way Off the National Grid
Econet solar plans include a 100 MW solar and battery scheme in Harare, after AI analysis found power cuts behind...
September 8, 2026
South Africa’s Economy Shrank, and Mining Did Most of the Damage
South Africa GDP fell 0.2% in the second quarter of 2026, ending a six-quarter run of growth, as mining, trade...
September 8, 2026
South Sudan Has Written a Budget That Rests Almost Entirely on Oil
The South Sudan budget for 2026-27 totals SSP 11.34trn, with oil supplying 79% of revenue and SSP 183bn set aside...
September 8, 2026
Gold Is Now Three Quarters of What Uganda Sells Abroad, and Almost None of It Is Ugandan
Gold made up about 76% of Uganda's export earnings in 2025 after a record US$5.8bn year. Most of the metal...
September 8, 2026
Kenya’s Best-Known Investment Manager Just Moved to the Public Side
James Mworia Centum ties end after 18 years as he takes over Kenya's new National Infrastructure Fund, with an insider...
September 8, 2026
The World Bank Says Liberia Is Leaving 5% of Its Economy on the Table
Liberia fiscal space could widen by 3.9% to 5.3% of GDP a year by 2030 with tax and spending reform,...
September 8, 2026
Guinea Has Started Switching On the Port That Simandou Was Built For
Guinea's Morebaya port has begun progressive commissioning, SimFer says, the last piece of the Simandou iron ore export system.
September 8, 2026
Ghana Wants Private Operators Inside Its Power Utility, and Labour Is Digging In
Ghana ECG private sector participation is targeted for early 2027, but the Trades Union Congress has threatened legal action to...
September 8, 2026
Ghana’s New Bond Drained Its Own Secondary Market
Ghana bond market turnover fell 68% week on week to GH¢2.12bn, as investors moved cash into the new four-year government...
September 8, 2026