🌎Frontier Markets News, August 7th 2026

What We’re Reading

DRC bans copper and cobalt concentrates exports (Reuters)

Zimbabwe rules out standalone currency until inflation steadies (Bloomberg)

Gabon’s debt rally contrasts with Senegal’s slide (Briefs Finance) 

Cameroon’s Paul Biya reshuffles army as his absence stokes unease (BBC)

Nigeria approves $4.5bn refinancing of state-owned oil company (All Africa)

Exiled Bangladesh PM reiterates vow to return (FT)

Pakistan escalates crackdown on journalists (NYT)

Laos vows to increase trade with Vietnam to $10bn by end of decade (Vientiane Times)

Vietnamese leader To Lam to visit Australia and New Zealand (Reuters) 

Thailand hosts Myanmar’s president (BBC)

IPOs stall in Indonesia as threat of downgrade looms (Nikkei)

Syria tells US it is ‘willing to drastically drop’ Russian oil imports (Reuters)

Iraq’s debt hits record high as Hormuz crisis drains revenues (AGBI)

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan to establish mutual defense plan (Reuters)

Turkey’s defense exports reach record (Al Monitor) 

Serbia’s Vucic accused of vote-buying with cash pledges (Balkan Insight) 

Hungary braced for power cuts amid extreme drought (FT)

Romania prepares to cut industrial output in face of power shortage (Montel)

Falling water levels on Danube threaten Serbia’s electricity supply (Balkan Insight) 

Afghan Taliban officials’ visit to Moldova triggers political storm (Radio Free Europe) 

Brazil downgrades diplomatic ties with Argentina after Milei again insults Lula (Reuters)

Guyana set for higher-than-expected oil profits (Reuters)

Venezuela and DR ‘will work to restore ties’ (Al Jazeera)

Colombia holds its benchmark rate at 12% as inflation climbs to 6.1% (Banco de la República)

Cuba’s national grid collapses twice in less than a day as its energy crisis deepens (Reuters)

Guatemala orders evacuations as volcanic eruption intensifies (Reuters)

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