Insights & Guides
Analysis on trade, market entry, and doing business across Africa, from Indegate's advisory desk.
How to Enter the Algerian Market: A Step-by-Step Guide for Foreign Companies
The repeal of the 51/49 rule and the strategic sectors and import-for-resale cases where it survives, CNRC registration with the NIF and NIS, the tiered IBS corporate tax, AAPI incentives, and the Bank of Algeria 30-day declaration and 25 percent threshold that govern profit repatriation, for foreign companies entering one of Africa's largest economies.
How to Enter the Tunisian Market: A Step-by-Step Guide for Foreign Companies
The onshore versus offshore decision, SARL incorporation through the APII guichet unique and the RNE, the 49 percent rule and the FIPA, APII and TIA agency map, the 2025 corporate tax changes, and recording inbound capital so profits can leave a non-convertible dinar, for foreign companies using Tunisia as a COMESA, AfCFTA and EU export platform.
How to Enter the Ethiopian Market: A Step-by-Step Guide for Foreign Companies
Ethiopian Investment Commission permit via eInvest, MoTRI commercial registration, the 2024 to 2025 opening of banking, retail, wholesale and import, tax and incentives, and the capital importation certificate that governs profit repatriation after the 2024 birr float, for foreign companies entering one of Africa's largest consumer markets.
How to Enter the Rwandan Market: A Step-by-Step Guide for Foreign Companies
RDB one-stop incorporation, RRA tax setup and the 2025 reforms, foreign-ownership and leasehold-land rules, the investment certificate, the Kigali International Financial Centre, and using a Kigali entity as a triple EAC, COMESA, and AfCFTA base, for foreign companies entering East Africa.
How to Enter the Tanzanian Market: A Step-by-Step Guide for Foreign Companies
BRELA company registration, the Mainland and Zanzibar split, TRA tax setup, foreign-ownership and local-content rules, the certificate of incentives, and using a Tanzanian entity as a dual EAC and SADC gateway, for foreign companies entering East Africa.
How to Enter the Senegalese Market: A Step-by-Step Guide for Foreign Companies
OHADA company formation through the APIX one-stop shop, DGID tax setup, foreign-ownership and local-content rules, the special economic zone regime, and using a Dakar entity as a UEMOA and ECOWAS gateway, for foreign companies entering francophone West Africa.
How to Enter the Ivory Coast Market: A Step-by-Step Guide for Foreign Companies
OHADA entity choice, the CEPICI Guichet Unique, notarised French statutes, DGI tax and VAT, regulated professions reserved for nationals, the BCEAO investment declaration, and using an Abidjan entity as a UEMOA single-currency and customs gateway, for foreign companies entering francophone West Africa's largest economy.
How to Enter the Ghanaian Market: A Step-by-Step Guide for Foreign Companies
Incorporation at the ORC, GIPC registration and the foreign minimum-capital rule, reserved activities for Ghanaians, GRA tax and the 2026 VAT reform, free zones, and using a Ghana entity as an ECOWAS and AfCFTA gateway, for foreign companies entering one of West Africa's most open economies.
How to Enter the Egyptian Market: A Step-by-Step Guide for Foreign Companies
Company registration through GAFI, ETA tax and e-invoicing setup, the commercial agency and importers-register trap, security clearance for foreign shareholders, and using an Egyptian entity as a COMESA, GAFTA and Agadir gateway, for foreign companies entering the Arab world's largest market by population.
How to Enter the South African Market: A Step-by-Step Guide for Foreign Companies
Company registration with the CIPC, SARS tax setup, B-BBEE, exchange control, and using a South African entity as a SADC and SACU gateway, for foreign companies entering Africa's most industrialised economy.
How to Enter the Moroccan Market: A Step-by-Step Guide for Foreign Companies
A practical walkthrough of entity structure, company registration, licensing, and profit repatriation for foreign companies entering Morocco, Africa's leading gateway to Europe, the US, and the AfCFTA.
Why Business Expansion Consulting in Africa is Key: Lessons from Niger's Uranium Sector Restructuring
The restructuring of Niger's uranium sector demonstrates why business expansion consulting in Africa is essential for companies seeking resource investments across the continent.
Business Consulting in Morocco: Market Entry, Investment, and Trade for Foreign Companies
Why Morocco is Indegate's home market and one of Africa's most active gateways for foreign investment, company registration, Casablanca Finance City, free zones, and real engagements we've run there.
How to Enter the Kenyan Market: A Step-by-Step Guide for Foreign Companies
Company registration, licensing, tax, and distribution for foreign companies entering Kenya, East Africa's technology and finance hub, and a market Indegate operates in directly.
Africa Market Entry: Regulatory Checklist for Foreign Businesses
The regulatory steps foreign companies need to clear to expand into African markets, company registration, sector licensing, tax, employment, and customs, as a practical checklist.
How to Enter the Nigerian Market: A Step-by-Step Guide for Foreign Companies
A practical walkthrough of company registration, licensing, distribution, and compliance for foreign companies entering Nigeria, Africa's largest consumer market.
Business Consulting in Africa: A Practical Guide to Market Entry
What business consulting for African market entry actually involves, why a single continent-wide playbook doesn't work, and the five stages a serious engagement goes through.
