Africa

South Africa’s Twin Twinge Tweaks

South African stocks continued to slump on a gloomy World Bank report citing double damage from the Eurozone crisis and ...

Cote d’Ivoire’s HIPC Hoop Hurdles

Cote d’Ivoire Eurobond prices enjoyed a bump as bilateral and multilateral creditors certified post-civil war progress toward the HIPC completion ...

Africa’s Ratings Spotlight Shimmer

Decades after assigning it first Sub-Sahara Africa sovereign rating and long after expiration of a US government program that paid ...

South Africa’s Retouched Portrait Strokes

South African securities were buffeted by angry demonstrations by ANC loyalists after an artist’s unflattering depiction of President Zuma, which ...

Ethiopia’s Dam-Breaking Trickle

Ethiopia, which hosts a World Bank-backed commodities exchange with $1 billion in coffee and agricultural trading volume and overnight settlement ...

Africa’s Panoramic View Distortions

Sub-Saharan stock markets got little lift from the IMF’s latest regional GDP growth forecast which kept the 5 percent expectation ...

Angola’s Residual Oil Anguish Angles

As Angola completed its IMF standby arrangement centered on better oil revenue management and transparency and again broached the possibility ...

Mauritius’ Offshore Center Vertigo

Mauritian stocks continued lethargic as the global business corporation sector absorbed the implications of the Indian budget which seemed to ...

Nigeria’s Wistful World Bank Wallop

Nigerian stocks were unmoved from their modest upturn as Finance Minister Okonjo-Iweala, a former senior World Bank executive, was nominated ...

Francophone Africa’s Stung Barracudas

Senegal’s external bond and main regional bourse share Sonatel sputtered as President Wade, after receiving judicial clearance to run for ...

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