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    • Monday, 12 January, 2015
      Currencies
      Lower oil sends Nigeria bond yield higher

      Borrowing costs surpass most sub-Saharan African nations and currency is under pressure too

    • Sunday, 11 January, 2015
      African companies
      Buyout group Helios raises record $1bn Africa fund

      Size of London-based capital raising signals growing investor interest in continent

    • Friday, 9 January, 2015
      World
      Gambia coup plan has echoes of Hollywood farce

      With code names and conspiracies it sounds like the plot of a bad film, but it happened in Africa

    • Monday, 22 December, 2014
      European companies
      Seplat and Afren in talks over oil merger

      A deal would create a £1.8bn Nigeria-focused energy group

    • Sunday, 21 December, 2014
      Global Economy
      War-torn South Sudan under economic attack from fall in oil price

      Pipeline contract means war-torn nation gets under $25 a barrel

    • Tuesday, 9 December, 2014
      World
      Sierra Leone overtakes Liberia in number of Ebola cases

      Outbreak ‘flaming strongly’ in west African country, says World Health Organisation

    • Friday, 5 December, 2014
      World
      International Criminal Court drops charges against Uhuru Kenyatta

      Decision marks political victory for Kenya

    • Thursday, 4 December, 2014
      Sovereign bonds
      Investors pile into Ethiopia’s $1bn debut debt sale

      Frontier market country paid a yield of 6.625%

    • Tuesday, 2 December, 2014
      Retail & Consumer industry
      M&A activity hots up in Africa as investors bet on growth

      Almost $8bn in deals in a week shows appetite for region’s growing consumer markets

    • Monday, 1 December, 2014
      beyondbricsMarkets
      Uganda joins African wave of GDP rebasing and gets 13 per cent boost
    • Tuesday, 25 November, 2014
      Sovereign bonds
      Ethiopia plans first sovereign bond sale

      African country seeks up to $1bn from international investors

    • Monday, 24 November, 2014
      European companies
      Mota-Engil Africa lists in Amsterdam

      African arm of Lisbon-based construction group expects to increase free float

    • Friday, 14 November, 2014
      The World blogWorld
      All is forgotten: Equatorial Guinea rehabilitated to host of African Cup of Nations
    • Thursday, 13 November, 2014
      Oil
      Africa-focused oil groups in no rush to sell

      Predators start to circle the region amid falling share prices

    • Tuesday, 11 November, 2014
      World
      Morocco’s removal as host leaves Africa Cup of Nations in turmoil

      Rabat sought to postpone tournament over risk of Ebola spreading

    • Friday, 7 November, 2014
      beyondbricsCentral bank intervention
      Nigeria’s currency – calm now, devaluation later?
    • Thursday, 6 November, 2014
      Currencies
      Nigerian naira follows rouble downward

      Fears over impact of lower crude oil prices

    • Monday, 3 November, 2014
      Global InsightWorld
      Africa’s leaders wake up to the Black Spring of Burkina Faso

      Whiff of revolution will have been picked up by ageing leaders wishing to hang on to power

    • Sunday, 2 November, 2014
      US & Canadian companies
      IHS in biggest African fund raising since crisis

      Nigeria-based telecoms infrastructure group raises $2.6bn to spend on mobile cellular towers

    • Friday, 31 October, 2014
      World
      Traoré assumes power in Burkina Faso

      Compaoré quits but rivals to army chief quickly emerge

    • Thursday, 30 October, 2014
      World
      Military seizes power in Burkina Faso

      Parliament set ablaze after President Compaoré tries to prolong his 27-year rule

    • Sunday, 12 October, 2014
      Oil
      Equatorial Guinea leader’s son settles US corruption case

      Teodoro Nguema Obiang agrees to sell $30m in assets

    • Thursday, 9 October, 2014
      Global InsightWorld
      China still trumps the competition in Africa Inc

      Commercial influence in the continent is growing despite overtures from the US, Europe and Japan

    • Wednesday, 8 October, 2014
      Global Economy
      Ebola is one of several risks facing west Africa

      Investors wake up to the threat of disruption from outbreak

    • Wednesday, 8 October, 2014
      African companies
      Allen & Overy expands into sub-Saharan Africa

      Move by ‘magic circle’ law firm underscores attraction of the region to international investors

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