Morocco Overtakes South Africa to Become Africa's Top Car Producer moroccoworldnews.com/2024/07/364141…

The Birr actually depreciated by 23.1%... still sizeable in the context of the move to float the currency reuters.com/markets/curren…

South Africa's Sprint To Exit FATF Grey List In 2025 fitchsolutions.com/bmi/operationa…

Business has role to play in boosting gender parity - I shared some views at the recent DLO Energy Resources Group’s African Women in Leadership Summit, held on August 6, in Johannesburg. engineeringnews.co.za/article/busine…

#DYK: Kenya is a major refugee-hosting nation home to some of the world’s largest refugee camps. As of June 2024, Kenya hosts 774,354 registered refugees and asylum seekers who live in designated camp areas and urban areas. #RefugeesandHostKE

Increasingly frequent droughts and heatwaves have already created measurable economic damage in economies in these regions. Chart: Low Income Economies More Dependent On Agriculture Global – GDP per capita (‘000USD, Horizontal) and Agricultural Labour force (%of Total, vertical)

New Development Bank approves up to USD1bn loan for water projects in South Africa reuters.com/world/africa/n…

#Zambia is having to make do with no more than three hours of power daily, as the worst drought in decades means hydroelectric dams are running out of water bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

China-Europe Rail Gains Traction Amid Red Sea Challenges #BMI fitchsolutions.com/bmi/logistics-…

#Morocco's Greenfield Port To Relieve Western Mediterranean Congestion: The new Nador West Med port in Morocco, scheduled to be complete by end-2024, will provide additional transshipment capacity. fitchsolutions.com/bmi/logistics-…

Inflows from domestic dollar bond push forex reserves to USD36.9bn #Nigeria thenationonlineng.net/inflows-from-d…

A global organisation (GEAPP) backed by Amazon's Jeff Bezos’ said it’s setting up a program to attract investment into South African municipal #power grids, bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/comm…

South Africa: Reserve Bank cuts rates by 25 basis points businesstech.co.za/news/finance/7…