Africa

South Africa’s Gripping Gordhan Knot

South African shares tumbled further as the central bank lifted rates half a percent for the first time in five ...

Nigeria’s Dulled Diaspora Disposition

Nigerian equities retrenched in early January as President Jonathan entered his last year in office faced with oil sale corruption ...

Sudan’s Unceasing Secession Tendencies

Months after reaching agreement with Khartoum on detailed implementation of its 2-year old independence, oil producing South Sudan, which provided ...

Africa’s Rough Banked Diamonds

Ex-Barclays CEO Diamond touted an African return in his post-scandal reinvention through a private equity joint venture with a continental ...

South Africa’s Explosive Mine Misery

South African stocks and bonds reeled with paltry Q3 GDP growth at 0.7 percent due to auto and mining strikes ...

Africa’s Untamed Frontier Ferocity

After probing the non-commodity turnaround in a half-dozen Sub-Saharan economies due to a combination of policy stability, good aid use, ...

Africa’s Multiple Affront Affirmations

Sub-Saharan African securities performance was not as scorching in Q3 after previous record sovereign bond issuance and MSCI frontier index ...

Kenya’s Public Tribunal Trot

As Kenya’s deputy president Ruto goes before The Hague on human rights abuse charges, equities were up 25 percent on ...

Seychelles’ Hyped Island Hop

The Seychelles joined Mauritius as an African small middle-income island stock exchange with listing of the state-owned Sacos insurance conglomerate ...

Africa’s Flexed Land Grab Lunge

With attention focused on foreign agricultural investor acquisition of millions of hectares in places like Ethiopia and Sudan, the World ...

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