The Kenyan and Ugandan shillings, Ghanaian cedi and Zambia’s kwacha are all expected to ease against the dollar in the next week to Thursday, traders said. KENYA Kenya’s shilling KES= is forecast to ...

Shell SHEL.L will write down around $400 million over an oil discovery offshore Namibia that it deemed commercially unviable in a blow to the southern African country’s efforts to become a crude ...

The following scheduled economic events, equity and currency market moves may affect South African markets on Thursday. ECONOMIC EVENTS November manufacturing output ZAMAN=ECI SOUTH AFRICAN MARKETS ...

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China Development Bank has released a $254.76 million loan to Nigeria for a railway project linking the two northern states ...

Zambia’s kwacha ZMW= has hit a series of record lows since the start of the year as a severe drought keeps the pressure firmly on the copper-producing Southern African country’s economy. Analysts had ...

Tanzania’s central bank left its key interest rate TZINTR=ECI unchanged at 6% on Wednesday, holding it steady for a third ...

Ghana’s consumer inflation GHCPIY=ECI rose for a fourth month in a row in December, to 23.8% year on year from 23.0% in November, the statistics service said on Wednesday. Government statistician ...

South African manufacturing activity fell for the second month in a row in December, a local purchasing managers’ index (PMI) survey showed, as demand declined. The seasonally-adjusted PMI sponsored ...

Coloured gemstone producer Gemfields GEMGE.L, GMLJ.J has asked the Zambian government to remove a recently re-introduced 15% export tax on emeralds to avoid hurting the sector. The southern African ...

CNBC’s Pippa Stevens reports on surging power ...

Robots have transformed the way people work across multiple industries, but one that might not immediately come to mind is medical surgery. Chong Yew Lam has been a urologist for 16 years and is a ...