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South Africa Moves Firms to Mines Ministry for Accountability

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – South Africa will transfer the state-owned mining company and petroleum exploration-promotion agency, which report to a unit of the Energy Ministry, to the Department of Mineral Resources to improve accountability. Petroleum Agency of South Africa and African Exploration Mining & Finance Corp. will be moved to the department within the financial year ending Feb. 28, Energy Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi told lawmakers in Cape Town Friday. They will be transferred from her department’s CEF…

Sub-Saharan Africa Needs Better Laws for $100 Billion Gap

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Sub-Saharan Africa needs solid legal frameworks, increased private-sector involvement and better fiscal incentives to plug its annual infrastructure-funding gap of about $100 billion, Boston Consulting Group and Africa Finance Corp. said. The region’s governments have insufficient strategic foresight, political will and policy certainty and numbers of adequately skilled people to improve delivery, the organizations said in a report released Tuesday in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Financial systems need upgrading to be sound…

Africa’s Central Bank Monetary Policy Rates and Foreign Exchange Reserves

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Angola’s central bank kept its benchmark lending rate unchanged at 16 percent following a policy meeting on Friday 28th April 2017, the bank said in a statement posted on its website. The National Bank of Angola (BNA) has kept its key rate steady since June last year when it raised it to the current level to curb accelerating inflation. In 2016 the BNA rate was raised 500 basis points….

March’s Inflation Trends Across the African Continent

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Angola’s inflation eased to 36.52 percent year-on-year in March from 38.32 percent in February, data from the National Statistics Agency reported. Price increases on a month-on-month basis slowed 1.91 percent in March compared to a 2.3 percent previously. Algeria’s consumer price inflation stood at 7 percent year-on-year in March from 4.7 percent a year earlier. The National Statistics Office reported. Inflation reached 1.6 percent in March compared with the…

INTO AFRICA May 2017 Edition: Africa’s Insurance Markets Uncovered

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Welcome to the May 2017 edition of INTO AFRICA, the publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets. This edition focuses on the Insurance sector and is titled: Africa’s Insurance Markets Uncovered marks an exciting time in the sector. Please download by clicking: INTO AFRICA PUBLICATION: MAY 2017 EDITION. The insurance sector remains under-developed in Africa (it generates barely 1.7% of global insurance premiums) despite being home to 15% of the World’s population,…

Africa poised as the next big thing in emerging-market stocks

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – With plenty of economic and political issues surrounding Africa, many investors are hesitant on whether they should invest in this emerging market. The continent is consistently appearing in the news due to the fact it is struggling to contend with illnesses such as Ebola as well as the many armed conflicts that are being documented, which is making Westerners uneasy. In fact, the continent barely appears on some investors’…

Barclays Africa Said to Be Front-Runner to Buy Mozambican Bank

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Barclays Africa Group Ltd., the South African bank with operations across 12 countries on the continent, is the lead bidder for Mozambique’s Moza Banco SA, according to people familiar with the matter. The central bank has received three proposals, which will be reviewed by an independent panel before the winner is announced in July, one of the people said, asking not to be named because the process is private. Barclays Africa’s…

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