🌍 Frontier Markets News, December 26th 2025
A weekly review of key news from global growth markets
What We’re Reading
Ghana moves to regulate crypto and digital assets (GhanaWeb)
Nigeria ‘provided US with intelligence’ for strikes on Islamist militants (The Guardian)
Ethiopia signs $1bn health pact with US (Addis Standard)
DRC halts artisanal copper and cobalt processing amid corruption crackdown (Reuters)
UN demands Rwanda leave DRC and extends peacekeeping mission (Reuters)
Protests escalate in Bangladesh after death of student leader (Al Jazeera)
Top candidate for prime minister returns to Bangladesh from exile (NY Times)
Pakistan seals $4bn arms deal with Libya (ME Eye)
Vietnam confronts the limits of its double-digit growth ambitions (East Asia Forum)
Clashes erupt on Thailand-Cambodia border hours before ASEAN peace talks (Al Jazeera)
Indonesia inches closer to US tariff deal (Reuters)
Myanmar’s election is predetermined, but questions remain (Foreign Policy)
Uzbekistan reforms capital markets to attract investment (Times of Central Asia)
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan ‘to get seats at’ 2026 G20 summit (AP)
Kazakhstan signs €3bn worth of deals with Japan (EuroNews)
Kyrgyzstan projects steady rise in GDP-per-capita (Trend News Agency)
Kuwait signs $4.1bn deal with China to build port (Barron’s)
Oman establishes new travel rules to protect environment (TTW)
Southern separatists in Yemen report Saudi airstrikes (The Guardian)
US strikes IS targets in Syria (BBC)
Deadly clashes erupt between Syrian army and Kurdish-led forces (CNN)
Turkey’s military fund gains sweeping control over Somalia’s fisheries (Nordic Monitor)
Albanian PM’s office petrol bombed as corruption protests flare (Politico)
Argentina to phase out ‘dependence on Wall Street,’ says economy minister (Buenos Aires Herald)
Petro declares economic and social emergency in Colombia (UPI)
Peru president race draws 36 hopefuls (Bloomberg)
Trump-backed candidate wins Honduran election with razor-thin margin (BBC)
US oil blockade of Venezuela pushes Cuba toward collapse (WSJ)
Renewable energy presents pathway out of poverty in Suriname (The Borgen Project)
Trump recalls dozens of US diplomats. Frontier markets dominate list (Al Jazeera)
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