Covid-19 second waves, the reliance on Saudi unilaterally shouldering the burden of marginal output restraint, and the fragile nature of Saudi-Russia cooperation tempers our optimism on oil relative to other commodities with secular demand drivers (e...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has won re-election with 51.6% of the vote, thereby avoiding a run-off, according to results from the Electoral Commission released Wednesday evening. The immediate focus now will be on whether Mahama and the opposition acce...

There is an ongoing public spat between two of the world's largest cocoa producers, Ghana and Ivory Coast (which make up c60% of global cocoa exports), and Hershey (which has over 40% share of the branded chocolate market in the US, with the US accou...

Africa is no less geared to the bump in commodity export prices and no less chequered in terms of sluggish reform and accumulation of debt than Latin America, where much more liquidly traded equity market peers have rallied sharply this month. Egypt...

In September 2020, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed to postpone the adoption of its single currency “eco”, from 2020 to an undetermined future date. As it stands, it remains unclear when the eco’s adoption will finally se...

In what could easily be called Nigeria's "fintech deal of the decade", Paystack — a homegrown payments solution provider — is in the process of being acquired by US fintech giant Stripe. Although the terms of the deal have not been disclosed, reports...