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Mozambique Drops Appeal for Extradition of Ex-Finance Minister

MAPUTO(Capital Markets in Africa) – Mozambique’s Attorney General withdrew appeals to have the country’s former finance minister sent home from South Africa, where he is in custody over a $2 billion debt scandal. Both the U.S. and Mozambique want South Africa to extradite Manuel Chang to face charges related to financial crimes. He’s been in custody in Johannesburg for more than a year since his arrest on U.S. charges. Chang, who’s denied wrongdoing, wants to face charges…

Egypt’s Macroeconomic Numbers Are Misleading: Timothy Kaldas

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NEW YORK (Capital Markets in Africa)- Despite improved macroeconomic indicators, the demands for bread, freedom and social justice remain elusive for most. Nine years ago today, the Egyptian people toppled Hosni Mubarak, their ruler of nearly 30 years. What had begun as protests against police brutality drew inspiration from the success of anti-regime demonstrations in Tunisia, and escalated into demands for the fall of the dictatorship. Among the most popular chants in Cairo’s Tahrir Square…

Ghana to Use $1 Billion of Bond Proceeds for Energy Debt, Google Abandons Plans

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa)- Ghana plans to use as much as $1 billion of the Eurobonds it sold last week to help restructure the country’s obligations to independent power producers, said Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. The West African country is in talks to re-negotiate supply deals with the power companies known as IPPs. The current take-or-pay agreements mean the government is billed even for unused electricity. “We are going to put about $1 billion aside from…

Ghana Is Africa’s Top Candidate for an Economic Leap: Noah Smith

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ACCRA (Capital Markets in Africa)- The country scores high on development metrics; it just needs to break free of dependence on commodities. Every time a region of the world goes from being poor to being rich one country tends to be responsible for getting the process started. In Europe that was the U.K., which was the first to industrialize. In East Asia it was Japan. In West Africa, it could be Ghana. Ghana has a number of big…

Scotland’s Leader Warns Johnson He ‘Can’t Deny Democracy’

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa)- Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon vowed to maintain pressure on the U.K. for another referendum on independence and said the standoff with Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the issue is just a “phony battle.” In an interview with Bloomberg Television in Brussels on Monday, she also repeated the possibility of asking the courts to decide whether the Scottish Parliament already has the power to hold a consultative vote. That, though, is not the preferred…

Irish Bank, Property Stocks Lead Slide After Sinn Fein Surge

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – Irish stocks slid on Monday after polls put Sinn Fein in place for a possible role in government, fueling declines in banks and property shares given that the party’s policies include a wealth tax and a freeze on residential rents. The benchmark ISEQ Index slid as much as 1.4%, with Bank of Ireland Group Plc and AIB Group Plc falling as much as 7.8% and 6%, respectively. Among real estate…

U.S. Could Actually Use More Nigerian Immigrants: Justin Fox

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – A new ban from the White House hits one of the most successfully integrated groups in the country. This column will not render a verdict on whether the White House decision last week to suspend immigration from Nigeria — the world’s seventh most-populous nation — and five other countries was mainly an expression of bigotry from an administration led by a man who once likened African nations to latrines, or if it was…

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