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Zimbabwe: Life After President Robert Mugabe

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – In early November 2017, Robert Mugabe was removed from power in what was effectively a bloodless coup. My wife, children and I joined a million people on the streets of Harare in a celebration of pent up joy and elation, the likes of which I can only imagine were equalled by the fall of the Berlin Wall. People were laughing, dancing, running in circles, waving pictures of the army…

Egypt’s GB Auto Sees Sales Doubling as `Different World’ Sets in

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CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Egypt’s biggest car distributor and assembler, Ghabbour Auto, expects automobile sales to double in 2019 compared to last year, amid a rebound in demand crippled after currency reforms sent inflation soaring. The Cairo-based company, which also has operations in Iraq, Jordan and Algeria, expects automobile sales to surge by 25 percent to 4,800 cars in September as it resumes distribution of China’s Geely vehicle this month, GB Auto’s chairman and…

MTN’s Nigeria Crisis Becomes Political Fodder in Vote Run-up

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – MTN Group Limited has become a battleground issue for Nigerian politicians vying for ascendancy ahead of a national election in February, with $10 billion worth of claims made against the South African wireless carrier. Africa’s largest mobile-phone company by subscribers is reeling from a double blow in Nigeria over the past week that’s caused the stock to lose almost a third of its value and its Eurobonds to plunge. First, the central bank…

FirstRand Defies S. African Recession as Retail Bank Shines

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – You wouldn’t say South Africa was in the grips of a recession by looking at the retail-banking unit of FirstRand Ltd., the continent’s largest lender by market value. First National Bank, which accounts for more than half of FirstRand’s profit, is outshining its Johannesburg-based peers by adding customers and deposits, extending more credit to its top clients and boosting transactions through its mobile-phone banking app. A decline in credit losses as a…

Ethiopian Airlines Flight in Near Collision, Flightradar 24 Says

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ADDIS ABABA (Capital Markets in Africa) – An Ethiopian Airlines Group flight almost had a mid-air collision with a Neos SpA plane in Kenyan airspace last week, according to tracking website Flightradar 24. ET858 “narrowly avoided” NO252 at 37,000 feet, the flight tracker said on Twitter. NO252 is the flight between Zanzibar in Tanzania, Kenya’s resort city of Mombasa and Verona, while ET858 is Ethiopian Airline’s route from Johannesburg, South Africa, to Addis Ababa, the Horn of…

Technical Signals Flash Glimmer of Hope for South Africa’s Rand

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – South Africa’s rand headed for an advance Thursday for the first time this week after data showed the country’s current-account deficit — a major vulnerability amid the emerging-market sell-off — narrowing from a two-year high. But it’s not only the slight improvement in economic fundamentals and global risk appetite that’s supporting a rand rebound. Technical indicators suggest South Africa’s currency is due for a correction after slumping to a two-year low this week….

Four Seats Enough, Rwanda’s Opposition Declares Vote Victory

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KIGALI (Capital Markets in Africa) – Rwandan opposition parties won just four seats in parliamentary elections — but that’s enough for one of their leaders to hail a victory for democracy in the tightly controlled East African nation. The outcome of the Sept. 3 vote marks the first time a party not in the Rwandan Patriotic Front coalition has secured lawmakers since the country was torn apart by a 1994 genocide. Provisional results show the…

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