Features | - Part 213

Africa’s Most Valuable Business Worth Less Than What It Owns

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Fifteen years ago, a South African media company invested $34 million in an obscure Chinese Internet developer. Today that stake is worth $88 billion. All Naspers Limited, now Africa’s most valuable company, has to do is figure out how to make money from its other properties: The whole company is worth only $72 billion, less than its stake in Shenzhen-based Tencent Holdings Limited. Investors aren’t impressed with Naspers’s operations in pay-TV, newspapers and e-commerce…

South Africa Scrambles as $10.3 Billion in Welfare Threatened

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – South Africa’s government, set to miss a deadline to appoint a new distributor of welfare grants worth about $10.3 billion a year to more than 17 million people, asked aspirant bidders to an information session as the end of a contract with Net 1 UEPS Technologies Inc. looms. The South African Social Security Agency, which oversees the monthly payment system, took the first step toward appointing a new distributor at the session…

Kenya’s economy to grow at a slower pace this year, IMF Rep Says

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NAIROBI (Capital Markets in Africa) – Kenya’s economic growth rate will slow in 2017, from about 6 percent last year, due to sluggish credit growth and as investors take a wait-and-see attitude before a presidential election in August, a senior IMF official said on Monday. Armando Morales, the International Monetary Fund’s representative in Kenya, said growth is likely to remain within the 5-6 percent range of the past five years, despite the slowdown. “We expect a…

Dangote, China’s Sinotruck set up $100 million Truck Plant in Nigeria

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote has partnered with China’s heavy duty truck group Sinotruck to set up a $100 million plant to assemble trucks and cars in Nigeria for local use and export, the executive director of Dangote group said. The joint venture, which is 65 percent owned by Dangote and 35 percent by Sinotruck will assemble components and knocked down parts imported from Sinotruck to the Nigerian plant….

Donald Trump’s Team Has Questions About Africa. Here Are Answers

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WASHINGTON (Capital Markets in Africa) — President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has circulated a list of questions on Africa to the State Department and Pentagon. At the top of the list are two queries about the United States and China and their relative presence on that continent: “How does U.S. business compete with other nations in Africa? Are we losing out to the Chinese?” Peter Navarro, who will lead Trump’s National Trade Council, provided his…

Gambia’s Jammeh Pleads for Judges as Deadline to Quit Nears

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BANJUL (Capital Markets in Africa) – Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh called on regional heads of state to help the country find judges so that its Supreme Court can hear his objections to losing a presidential election last month, two days after Nigeria’s president failed to persuade him to step down. Jammeh filed an injunction at the court to stop the swearing-in of opposition leader Adama Barrow due Jan. 19 and needs judges to hear the case as soon…

Guinea Must Tighten Grip on Bauxite Industry, President Says

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GUINEA (Capital Markets in Africa) – Guinea wants to get a tighter grip on its bauxite industry and keep out companies that aren’t consumers of the ore, President Alpha Conde said in a speech on state television. “We don’t want traders in Guinea. It’s abnormal that we have more than half of the world’s bauxite reserves but not even 2 percent of the market share,” Conde said. “We’re producers and we’re going to work directly with our…

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