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Jumia is known as the Amazon of Africa. Sea’s exponential rise has made it the largest company in ASEAN, a region of 600mn people. We identified Fawry as an EM tech stock to watch in July 2020, when the pre-unicorn company had a market cap of US$735m...

However, this announcement may inflame the Polisario Front, which has fought, often with support from Algeria, for an independent state for the indigenous Sahrawi people since shortly after the Spanish colonial withdrawal from Western Sahara in 1975....

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...

The spark for clashes was Polisario's blockade (since 21 October) of a road through Guerguerat on the Moroccan-Mauritanian border. The historic context dates back to the Spanish colonial withdrawal from the region in 1975 and the subsequent war betwe...