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Fixed Income Daily: Bond market and currency metrics for African capital markets
Nigeria - Treasury bond yields rose to build upon an upward drift in interest rates witnessed towards end-2020, partly in reaction to the de facto floor on market rates via the Special Bills avenue to...
Daily Africa Insight: An overview of today’s key events and developments
Côte d’Ivoire – First Covid-19 vaccines’ arrival delayed to mid-February. DRC – Motion against Ilunga confirms Sacred Union’s strength. DRC – Price inflation continues upward trajectory in November....
Talking Point: DRC – Motion against Ilunga confirms Sacred Union’s strength
On Friday, January 22, 301 out of 500 members of the National Assembly signed a motion to demand the dismissal of Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba and his Cabinet, and handed the motion to th...
Talking Point: Morocco – Polisario fires at Moroccan position
In the night of Saturday, January 23, Polisario forces fired four rockets at the Moroccan military position at Guerguerat, in what is supposed to be a no-man’s-land a few kilometres from the Mauritani...
Talking Point: Malawi – Former President Mutharika’s accounts still frozen
On Friday, January 22, the High Court dismissed the application made by former President Peter Mutharika’s lawyer to lift a restriction notice on his bank accounts. In August, the Anti-Corruption Bure...
Talking Point: Namibia – Geingob personally linked to Fishrot scandal
President Hage Geingob’s personal lawyer Sisa Namandje confirmed that his firm, Sisa Namandje and Co, dealt with payments linked to the ruling Swapo party that are alleged to be part of the notorious...
Talking Point: Morocco – Consumer prices fall amid tighter Covid-19 restrictions
According to the latest data from the High Commission for Planning (HCP), Morocco’s consumer price index (CPI) fell by 0.3% y-o-y in December, compared to an increase of 0.2% y-o-y in November. On a m...
Talking Point: Côte d’Ivoire – First Covid-19 vaccines’ arrival delayed to mid-February
Authorities in Côte d’Ivoire recently announced that the country’s first batch of Covid-19 vaccines, which was initially scheduled for delivery at the end of January, will now only arrive in the middl...
Talking Point: South Africa – ANC NEC meets, makes no decision on Magashule
A three-day meeting, or lekgotla, of the ruling African National Congress (ANC)’s National Executive Committee (NEC) over the weekend of January 22 – 24 produced a long, aspirational list of the party...
Talking Point: DRC – Price inflation continues upward trajectory in November
According to weekly figures released by the Central Bank of Congo (BCC), consumer price inflation increased slightly to 20.4% y-o-y in November 2020, from 20.1% y-o-y in October. The acceleration in h...
SA Daily Economic Report: Morning market update
Fiscal consolidation path weakens as fiscus faces pressure Lockdown plunges UK PMI to eight-month low US existing home sales close 2020 on an up note amid record low supply BoJ stands pat ahead of po...
Fixed Income Daily: Bond market and currency metrics for African capital markets
Cameroon - Notwithstanding a more uncertain recovery trajectory and downward revisions to our key macro variables, our valuation model suggests that some value can be found in Cameroon. We expect the...
South Africa Quarterly Update: Economic growth forecast revised to 2.0% for 2021 amid second wave of coronavirus infections
Our outlook for the South African economy weakened over the past quarter as a result of the second wave of Covid-19 infections and the subsequent renewed adjusted level 3 restrictions. Furthermore, da...
Daily Africa Insight: An overview of today’s key events and developments
Africa – Weekly Covid-19 update. Kenya – Ruto receives election boost from Kalenjin elders. Mauritius – Foreign reserves surprise to the upside in December. Rwanda – Forex reserves up despite tourism...
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President Tshisekedi of the #DRC’s next move against his predecessor, Joseph Kabila, is aimed at PM Sylvestre Ilunga. While the legality of the motion itself is unclear, it has shown that the president now has the upper hand in the legislature.
Polisario vows that the war against #Morocco for the #WesternSahara will “continue and escalate” after firing rockets at a position near Guerguerat on Saturday night. We see essentially no risk of conflict beyond occasional pot shots at bases.
The High Court of #Malawi dismissed the application by former president Peter Mutharika to lift restrictions on his bank accounts which were frozen by the Anti-Corruption Bureau as part of an investigation into a MK5bn cement scandal.
Another leaked document from the Fishrot corruption scandal in #Namibia alleges that Swapo and President Hage Geingob benefitted from the N$2.5bn scheme. The new evidence will contribute to the increasing decline in support for the current government.
.#Morocco`s consumer price index (CPI) registered deflation in December, driven by declining food prices.
.#CotedIvoire announces that the arrival of its first batch of 100,000 doses of the Pfizer BioNTech #Covid19 #vaccine has been delayed by two weeks and will now take place in the middle of February. Much more will be required to attain herd immunity.
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