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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – Tax year end in 2021 comes after a year like no other. Financially, every household will have been impacted differently. While some have experienced a loss in income, many will have decreased their outgoings and then either reduced personal debt or increased savings. In both scenarios, it is worth noting that the financial planning objectives might have changed. Longer-term plans put in place more than a year ago are…

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) — Johnson & Johnson agreed to supply as many as 400 million Covid-19 vaccines to the African Union through the end of next year, delivering a boost to a continent trailing most of the world in the race to inoculate against the disease. The U.S. drugmaker can make available as many as 220 million doses of its single-shot candidate to the AU’s 55 member states starting in the third quarter…

NEW YORK (Capital Markets in Africa) — Donald Trump’s planned social media platform “will debut in three to four months,” the former president’s one-time campaign manager and senior adviser said. “We’re going to have a platform where the president’s message of America First is going to be able to be put out to everybody,” Corey Lewandowski said on the conservative Newsmax TV network’s “Saturday Agenda.” “There’ll be an opportunity for other people to weigh in…

CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) — The container ship stuck in the Suez Canal has been refloated, and its position moved about 80%, but maneuvers will continue this morning around high tide, the Canal Authority said. It’s the first step to clearing the blockage in one of the world’s most important trade arteries. “Today we will start our plan for all the ships to cross the canal, and it could take around one week to…