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Lufthansa to Suspend Flights to Abuja While Airport Is Closed

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Deutsche Lufthansa AG became the first airline to announce it will suspend its route to Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, while the airport is closed for six weeks for repairs. Germany’s biggest carrier won’t divert its planes to Kaduna, a city about 140 miles (225 kilometres) away, spokeswoman Mirjam Eberts said by phone on Thursday. She didn’t give a reason for the decision. Lufthansa will continue to fly to Lagos, the commercial hub,…

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….

South Africa’s business confidence lowest in 30 years: survey

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Business confidence in South Africa fell to its lowest in three decades in September, reflecting uncertainty about the outlook for Africa’s most industrialised economy, a survey showed on Wednesday. South African companies are struggling to stay afloat due to sluggish economic growth since a 2009 recession. The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (SACCI) monthly business index dipped to 90.3 in September from 92.9 in August, its worst showing since July 1985….

Infrastructure | Africa’s longest running Public Private Partnership conference comes back to London

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LONDON, UK, Capital Markets in Africa: The 8th Africa Public Private Partnership Conference and Showcase (APPP) will once again be held in London due to popular demand and will showcase investment opportunities and planned infrastructure development projects from across Africa. Organised by AME Trade, the event will take place from the 24 – 26 October 2016 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, London, UK building on the success of the previous editions. Over the past 7…

MTN Raises South Africa Investment to $757 Million for Deals

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Johannesburg, South Africa, Capital Markets in Africa: MTN Group Limited raised its South Africa investment target by 50 percent as the continent’s biggest wireless operator by sales looks to boost its data-services offering with acquisitions and network upgrades in its home market. Capital expenditure will be about 12 billion rand ($757 million) in the country in 2016, MTN’s South Africa head Mteto Nyati told reporters in Johannesburg on Thursday. That compares with an 8 billion rand target…

Zimbabwe Equity Markets | 14 Oct 2015: ZSE Industrial Index retreats further into red zone, Market Cap down by US$4 Mill….

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Harare, Zimbabwe, Capital Markets in Africa — The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) industrial index ended the session today retreating further into the red zone as the main index fell again during the days trading. The Industrial Index lost by 0.16 points to close 130.74 points, down by 0.12 percent. The ZSE Industrial index year-to-date settled at 19.68 percent. The market capitalisation ended at US$3,413 billion down by US$4 million compared to the US$3.417 billion recorded in the previous session. The market activity today recorded a turnover of…

Egypt Equity Markets | 11 Oct 2015 : Egyptian Equity Markets continue on up trend, EGX30 gains 55.99 bps, market cap adds EGP 5.2 Mill….

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Cairo, Egypt, Capital Markets in Africa — Egyptian Exchange Equity Markets today continued their up trend as indices and sectors all saw increases and stocks continued to rebound from losses in the weeks first session. The equity market capitalization ended at EGP 454,110 adding EGP 1,590 million to the EGP 452,520 billion recorded at the end of the previous weeks trading session . The benchmark index EGX30 gained by 55.99 points or 0.75 percent to end 7547.66 points from the 7491.67 points…

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