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Talking Point: Nigeria – Security deployment in Edo State ahead of key elections
In anticipation of a fiercely contested gubernatorial contest in Edo State on Saturday, September 19, Nigerian Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, said that 31,000 security force personnel ha...
Talking Point: Tanzania – The Zanzibar campaign
On Sunday, September 13, six-time Zanzibari presidential candidate Seif Sharif Hamad launched his campaign to run for president of Zanzibar again next month, on the platform of the Alliance for Change...
SA Daily Economic Report: Morning market update
Confidence key to economic recovery ZAR up as risk sentiment improves US manufacturing keeps industrial production on the recovery track ZEW shows further improvement in investor confidence for the e...
Fixed Income Daily: Bond market and currency metrics for African capital markets
Angola - Should our growth projection for 2020 materialise, it will be the sharpest economic contraction since 1993 and the fifth-consecutive year of contraction.
Daily Africa Insight: An overview of today’s key events and developments
Cameroon – Carrot and stick in the Anglophone region. Côte d’Ivoire – It’s officially Ouattara vs Bédié. East Africa – Uganda, Tanzania ink deal on $3.5bn oil pipeline project. Mauritius – Mauritians...
PMI retreats in August after reaching 12-month high in July, suggesting the recovery in Q3 will be a slow one
The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) declined by 0.2 pt to 49.4 pts in August, signalling a faster deterioration in non-oil business sector conditions compared to the previous month. This suggests tha...
Talking Point: Zambia – Gazing into the crystal ball: a growth outlook snapshot
Laying the groundwork ahead of the pivotal September 25 budget speech, President Edgar Lungu presented an upbeat view on Zambia’s recovery prospects at the opening of the National Assembly on Septembe...
Talking Point: Nigeria – Labour unions threaten strikes over fuel price increases
Popular discontent is growing in response to fuel and electricity price increases with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) threatening, on Monday, September 14, to launch strike and protest action. On the...
Talking Point: Nigeria – Inflation now picking up more pace and no easing in sight
Inflation accelerated by more than expected last month, with the headline print rising from 12.8% y-o-y in July to 13.2% y-o-y in August. Price pressures were fairly broad-based, but rising food price...
Talking Point: Cameroon – Carrot and stick in the Anglophone region
President Paul Biya’s government is using force against separatists in the Anglophone region, and dangling the prospect of some limited decentralisation to its population in an apparent attempt to imp...
Talking Point: Côte d’Ivoire – It’s officially Ouattara vs Bédié
On Monday, September 14, the Constitutional Council published its final list of eligible candidates for the first round of the presidential election on October 31. It is a short list – four names long...
Talking Point: Sudan – State of Economic Emergency declared
The Sudanese government declared a State of Economic Emergency last week, after the parallel market exchange rate for the Sudanese Pound plunged to SP260/$ from SP88/$ at the beginning of 2020, compar...
Talking Point: Mauritius – Mauritians take to the streets again
On Saturday, September 12, tens of thousands of Mauritians protested for the second time over the government’s handling of the MV Wakashio oil spill that devastated the south-east coast of the island...
Talking Point: East Africa – Uganda, Tanzania ink deal on $3.5bn oil pipeline project
On 13 September 2020, Tanzania and Uganda signed an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) regarding the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). According to the two governments, the p...
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.#Zambia requests six-month debt suspension of debt service payments from Eurobond holders after indicating in August that it will seek private sector participation in the DSSI.
.#Kenya’s Chief Justice David Maraga has recommended to President Uhuru Kenyatta that the country’s Parliament be dissolved for failing to enact gender parity legislation, as per the constitution, but his calls are unlikely to be heeded.
Expected debt relief for #Angola of up to $6.2bn over the next three years from three of its most prominent creditors to help fill the financing gap.
The Council of the Bank al-Maghrib (BAM) decided to keep #Morocco`s key policy rate unchanged at 1.5% at its most recent meeting on Tuesday, September 22.
.#Inflation in #CotedIvoire has slowed somewhat in August on the back of weaker oil prices and easing transportation costs. Currently averaging 2.5% for 2020 so far, it seems like the oil price will determine the direction of inflation in the last four months of the year.
.#CBN reduces #Nigeria’s policy rate by 100 bps to 11.5% despite inflation trending sharply higher. CBN now to rely on supply-side measures to combat inflation, but will this have the desired impact?
Former president of #Malawi Joyce Banda has been implicated in the US #FinCENfiles which revealed how $2trn in illicit funds moved across 170 countries for two decades. She is being investigated over an arms deal with #SouthAfrica’s Paramount Group.
Our expectation of trouble in #Cotedivoire over the rest of the year has been strengthened by Bédié’s call for civil disobedience. President Ouattara remains the favourite to win.
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