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Risk for EM Assets Simmers as Trade Tiff Turns Into All-Out War

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – The threat that a battle over trade between the world’s biggest economies will escalate is hanging over emerging-markets’ battered assets. President Donald Trump hinted the final total of goods that would be slapped with duties could eventually reach $550 billion. That exceeds all of U.S. goods imports from China in 2017. But it’s not just the tit-for-tat duties that’s worrying investors. Some say that import tariffs on Chinese goods…

INTO AFRICA July 2018 Edition – Back on Track: African Mining

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Welcome to the July 2018 edition of INTO AFRICA, a publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets. This month’s edition, titled: Back on Track: African Mining explores emerging mining laws and regulations as well as opportunities across African countries and financing options for mining projects in Africa. Africa is rich in natural resources. It boasts of over 10% of world reserves of oil, about 40% ofgold, 90%…

Kenya’s Big Four Agenda No Silver Bullet for Economy, BMI Says

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NAIROBI (Capital Markets in Africa) – Kenya’s Big Four agenda, a set of development goals geared at fuelling output, will not necessarily drive economic growth to the targeted 7 percent from 2020 to 2022, according to BMI Research. A key hurdle is the government’s weak fiscal position, with debt projected to cross the 60 percent to gross domestic product threshold in 2018, the Fitch Group unit said in a note. East Africa’s biggest economy’s chief development…

Orange Said to Partner Ivorian Lender for West African Foray

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ABIDJAN (Capital Markets in Africa) – Orange SA is partnering Ivory Coast’s Groupe NSIA to start banking operations in West Africa as the telecommunications group accelerates an expansion into financial services, according to three people familiar with the matter. The venture plans to use the assets in Ivory Coast and Senegal that NSIAacquired from Nigeria’s Diamond Bank Plc in November, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. The partnership will…

Heroin Is One of Biggest Mozambique Exports, Researchers Say

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MAPUTO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Mozambique boasts vast coal, ruby and gas deposits, but one of the southeast African nation’s biggest exports may be something more sinister: heroin. As much as $800 million worth of the narcotic is shipped annually from its beaches to neighboring countries and to Europe. That’s according to a research paper by Enact, a European Union-funded initiative to mitigate the impact of transnational organized crime, and a related working paper…

Islamist Militants Focus of Macron-Buhari Talks in Nigeria

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – French President Emmanuel Macron discussed ways to intensify the battle against Islamist militants in West Africa during talks with Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria’s fight against the nine-year-old Boko Haram insurgency in the far northeast has left more than 20,000 people dead and forced millions to flee their homes. In the semi-arid Sahel region south of the Sahara desert, France has deployed 4,000 troops in its Barkhane mission that’s hunting down Islamist…

U.S. Probe Darkens Glencore Horizons From Africa to Americas

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – The possibility that the Justice Department would add to the dizzying array of regulatory and legal headaches the Swiss company is facing around the globe — from Russia to Africa and South America — has been a major worry for both executives and shareholders for months, people familiar with the matter said. Those concerns crystallized Tuesday with the announcement that U.S. investigators have subpoenaed documents related to Glencore’s activities in the Democratic Republic…

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