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Oil: The cheapest oil exporter equity markets
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...


Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo is re-elected
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...


Child labour and ESG: Hershey chocolate, Ghana & Ivory Coast cocoa
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 equities should catch LatAm peers, Egypt top pick
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...


2021 Themes: West Africa’s single currency – the value is in the journey
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...


Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack: Game-changer for Africa fintech
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...

