Middle East crisis tests African economies [Business Africa]

After a strong 2025, African economies are facing a new threat: the war in the Middle East. The African Development Bank warns it could cost the continent up to 1.5 percentage points of growth this year.

Fuel-importing countries like Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia are especially vulnerable—higher living costs, weaker trade balances, and tighter financing all at once, according to the IMF.

What’s different this time is that…