04/18/2019
Botswana's Blue Diamond Set to Challenge Its Most Famous Rival
Okavango Blue graded higher than Hope Diamond for purity
Alternative Investments
04/17/2019
Mauritius puts India-focussed funds, others under its regulatory lens
The increased scrutiny is pushing back timelines and jacking up costs of setting up India-focussed funds in Mauritius
04/17/2019
Investors cautious on Kenya’s public housing
Developers want to see at least a 20 per cent profit margin on development, a yield that is impossible to achieve from the low-end housing market.
04/17/2019
South Africa’s Hopes
Ramaphosa’s rise to power produced a wave of optimism that governance would improve in South Africa.
04/17/2019
Standard Bank restructures its new coal generation model
"We consider long-term impacts alongside shorter-term outcomes, and balance the interests of the Group, stakeholders and societies in which we operate to deliver positive impacts and create sustainable value on the African continent."
04/17/2019
Development bank earmarks $4.4 billion for central Africa
The sum will help to finance 30 projects, ranging from electricity networks and transport to information technology and communication and improve cross-border trade, it said in a statement.
04/17/2019
Why holiday island Mauritius is out-investing SA, and what we need to do about it
Mauritius is small, isolated, but when it comes to a David versus Goliath sling-match, this island-nation with 1.4-million people is seriously kicking SA’s butt. How should SA rectify the balance?
04/16/2019
Mainone, Facebook Invest $20 Million in Nigeria's Fober Infrastracture Project
“Today, we have an innovation hub, and we are partnering with technology companies … We are constructing about 400 kilometres of fibre in Edo as we speak,” Governor Obaseki said.
04/16/2019
The numbers reveal a bleeding corporate sector
What would have been a good year has been desecrated by crippling policies - including punitive taxes and anti-business regulations.
04/16/2019
South Sudan secures $500m financing facility from Afreximbank
The African Export-Import Bank's facility will fund power transmission, infrastructure and farming projects
04/16/2019
Sanlam Group Sells Undisclosed amount of Stake in Sanlam Investments East Africa
Sanlam Investments East Africa currently manages an asset portfolio of over 200.0 billion shillings with a Money Market Fund size of 1.7 billion shillings as at 31st December 2019, ranking it as the 5th largest asset manager in Kenya in terms of assets un
04/16/2019
The risks when investing offshore
Chris Potgieter, head of Old Mutual Wealth Private Clients Securities, says the economic centre of the world is shifting towards the south and the east, yet the centre of the global equity market remains very much in the north and west.
04/15/2019
Global capital warms up to Africa investments
“While the flows of global capital to Africa remain a small percentage of global flows, the continent has a growing ability to deploy these flows and to offer attractive returns at acceptable levels of risk.
04/15/2019
Afreximbank’s COFIT programme kicks off
“Afreximbank offered partial scholarships of 50 per cent to five students from African partner organizations to attend the programme to enable them gain essential insight, awareness and understanding of international trade, both for career developme
04/15/2019
FNB launches Islamic trade finance offering
The offering further includes access to various trade finance products
04/14/2019
WikiLeaks' Kenyan Roots Revealed
It is Kenya that gave the WikiLeaks, the scoop that transformed its founder- Julian Assange, from an unknown hacker to one of the most talked about people on the planet.
04/14/2019
Top European markets ‘continue to draw Mena investors’
This has led to huge investment domestically via PIF, the Saudi Sovereign Wealth fund.
04/12/2019
Banks key to Africa’s economic integration
Fostering intra-Africa trade today is fundamental to the continent’s future economic wellbeing.
04/12/2019
World Bank Launches Human Capital Plan to Propel Investment in Africa's People
In an effort to help countries turn these indicators around, the World Bank's Africa Human Capital Plan is setting ambitious targets to be achieved in the region by 2023.
04/12/2019
Expert questions the number of insurance firms operating in Ghana
He revealed that the current total number of companies collectively contributed to a gross premium of $600 million and with a penetration rate of ‘abysmal’ 1.2% compared to African countries like South Africa and Morocco.