Finance | - Part 125

Rand Merchant Bank Report shows South Africa Drops Position, Nigeria Not Among the Top 10.

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – One of the most important findings of Rand Merchant Bank’s (RMB) seventh edition of Where to Invest in Africa is that the African continent could find itself hovering on the brink of disaster if it continues to depend on its current economic fundamentals and does not usher in economic diversification. Where to Invest in Africa 2018 highlights those countries which have understood the need to adapt to the prolonged slowdown in commodity…

Ethiopia Mulls Potash Partner as Failed Deal Is Arbitrated

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ADDIS ABABA ( Capital Markets in Africa) – Ethiopia is considering finding a new partner to develop a potash mine abandoned last year by Israel Chemicals Ltd., which has sought compensation at an arbitration court after accusing the government of failing to support the project. Several companies are interested in developing potash deposits in the country’s north-eastern Afar region, Mines Minister Motuma Mekassa said in an interview Wednesday in the capital, Addis Ababa. The government is eager…

De Beers Is Said to Hire Leak Hunter to Probe Gem Data Breach

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – The world’s biggest diamond producer hired an external investigator to find the source of possible leaks of its most sensitive price data, according to people familiar with the matter. De Beers hired investigators from KPMG International in South Africa to find the source of the leaks, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private. The company suspected at least one employee sold…

Diamonds Fund Zimbabwe’s Secret Police, Global Witness Says

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HARARE (Capital Markets in Africa) – Zimbabwe’s government is using money earned from diamond exports to fund its Central Intelligence Organisation, blamed for a raft of human-rights abuses as it’s helped to keep President Robert Mugabe in power since 1980, Global Witness said. Diamonds dug from the Marange fields in eastern Zimbabwe are channelled through Dubai, India, the Netherlands and South Africa by a complicated web of cross-owned companies based in places as diverse as Mauritius, Hong…

Fairfax Is Said to Back AfriSam to Clinch African Cement Deal

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. is prepared to inject as much as 5 billion rand ($386 million) to pay off bank debt owed by AfriSam Group Pty Ltd. and help South Africa’s second-biggest cement producer clinch a tie-up with larger rival PPC Ltd., according to two people familiar with the matter. The money from the African unit of the Canadian insurer will be used to repay bank loans and allow AfriSam to…

Nigeria Says Chinese to Build $5.8 Billion Hydropower Plant

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Nigeria said China Civil Engineering Corp. will build a $5.8 billion hydro-power station in the country’s eastern Mambila region with a capacity to generate 3,050 megawatts. China’s Export-Import Bank will provide 85 percent of the funding for the project, which is scheduled to be completed in six years, Power, Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Fashola told reporters on Wednesday in the capital, Abuja. Nigeria will contribute the remaining funds. “The scope…

Death Threats, Court Case Mark Battle for South Africa’s ANC

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Death threats and court challenges mark an intensifying battle for control of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress as factions fight it out in the nation’s provinces before the party elects a new leader to replace Jacob Zuma. In the region with the most ANC members, KwaZulu-Natal, the high court is expected to rule next month on an application by party officials to overturn an 2015 election of provincial leaders…

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