The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its World Economic Outlook report published in April 2026, provided its 2026 estimates for global economies of the world including African economies. The estimates are in Gross Domestic Product alias GDP (Nominal). The latter is the market value in US$, of all goods and services generated by each nation in 2026.

Senegal won the Africa Cup of Nations 2025 alias AFCON 2025 trophy after defeating Morocco in the continental football tournament's final match that took place at the 69500-seat Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, Morocco, in the late evening of January 18, 2026.

On November 15, 2018, King Mohammed VI of Morocco and President Emmanuel Macron of France inaugurated Africa's first ever high speed rail line, reported various African media same day. Morocco inaugurates Africa's first high speed rail line The 350 kilometer long rail line connects Morocco's largest city of Casablanca and the northern city of Tangier by the Strait of Gibraltar with Gibraltar in Europe just on the opposite side. The contemporary line can support high speed tr