Africa

South Africa’s Tender Tipping Points

South African stocks and bonds took a beating as the deputy head of the ANC, on the eve of a ...

Nigeria’s Sticky Upstream Upgrades

Nigerian shares topped the frontier MSCI list ahead almost 50 percent as a sovereign rating upgrade to BB followed inclusion ...

West Africa’s Delicate Debt Dalliance

As Cote d’Ivoire began a formal proxy campaign with bondholders to devise an interest arrears repayment plan after winning HIPC ...

Zimbabwe’s Wayward Waterfall Soak

Zimbabwe stocks finished Q3 with a 10 percent MSCI frontier index pop despite drought and banking and diamond setbacks and ...

South Africa’s Platinum Reputation Rupture

The Johannesburg Exchange fought to stay positive as foreign investors dumped premier mining shares as bloody confrontations and closures spread ...

The Sub-Sahara’s Bond Breakthrough Bid

As the African Development Bank carried out bond data and technical initiatives based on the ADB’s post-Asia crisis model, Nigeria ...

Private Equity’s Affected Africa Affirmation

In a paper titled “Embracing the Lion” the African Venture Capital Association and boutique firm Avanz highlight the post-BRIC frontier ...

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 ...

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