Nigeria Outlook Now At “Negative”: Fitch
Frontier Friday: OPEC Nation Down A Notch From ‘Stable’ Global agency Fitch Ratings this week revised its outlook on Nigeria‘s…
Microsoft Co-Founder Taps Kenya For Solar
Frontier Friday: Allen’s Vulcan To Offer Small-Scale Solar Plants Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has announced plans to sell 10 small-scale…
Asia Poised For A Greater Role In Africa’s Future
Western governments and multinationals have played a significant role in Africa’s growth in the past, with the European Union being…
South Africa Politics To Trigger Downgrade
IMF Forecast Lowered As Economy Remains Weak South Africa’s economy remains weak. The current GDP growth forecast by the International Monetary…
Gabon: Election Aftermath
Gabon’s Post-Election Aftermath The current focus in Gabon continues to be the aftermath of the presidential elections that were held…
Emerging Markets Will Rebound From “Brexit”
Our [Standard Chartered] big theme for 2016 is retreat, regroup, rebound. We expected emerging markets to come under pressure early in…
Transforming Trade in Africa
For a continent as big and diverse as Africa, regional integration is a mammoth task. But the longer African nations…
Angola Forecast Cut Amid Low Oil
Frontier Friday: Angola Growth Halved, Revenues Shortened OPEC-member Angola appears to be heading for a very rough patch of economic…
Nigeria’s Lagos State Downgraded
Frontier Friday: Fitch Downgrades Nigeria‘s Lagos State to ‘B+’; Outlook Stable Fitch Ratings has downgraded the long-term foreign currency Issuer Default…
Rwanda Upgraded on Strong Governance
Frontier Friday: High growth, strong governance lift Rwanda Global ratings agency Fitch in May placed Rwanda at ‘B+’, and deemed…
Tanzania: DSE Launches IPO
Frontier Friday: Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange Readies Its IPO As reported late 2015 and noted by a number of…
Zambia Currency Rebounds, Can it Last?
Zambia, the African nation known for its vast copper sector and being a major supplier to China, among other developing…
