Features | - Part 165

Steinhoff Rocked as Accounting Probe Claims Retailer’s CEO

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Steinhoff International Holdings NV plunged after its chief executive officer resigned amid accounting irregularities, rocking a company that rapidly expanded from its roots in South Africa into a retail empire spanning Australia, Europe and the U.S. The owner of the France-based Conforama furniture chain, Mattress Firm in the U.S. and Poundland in the U.K. said late Tuesday that CEO Markus Jooste quit as it appointed auditor PwC to probe the matter. The stock…

Uganda’s Museveni Defends Plan to Remove Presidential Age Limit

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KAMPALA (Capital Markets in Africa) – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said removing an age limit for the top job, a move that would allow him to seek a sixth term, could help ease what he called a leadership crisis in Africa. Maintaining the age limit of 75 would deny the East African nation the constitutional right to choose its leaders, Museveni told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday, according to a statement on his website. The committee is…

EU to Rubber-Stamp Tax Blacklist as It Takes on Tech Giants

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – The European Union is set to agree on a blacklist of tax havens that could potentially face sanctions for failing to bring their standards in line with the bloc, as it seeks to further step up its fight against opaque practices that facilitate avoidance by multinationals and individuals. The group of jurisdictions is set to be rubber stamped by EU finance ministers at a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday. According to a…

Ramaphosa Wins Most Endorsements in S. Africa’s ANC Campaign

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – President Cyril Ramaphosa won endorsement from most African National Congress branches to succeed President Jacob Zuma as ruling party leader, giving him an edge — but not a guarantee of victory — in this month’s election. Ramaphosa was nominated for the presidency of the ANC by 1,862 branches, while 1,309 backed his main rival Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, tallies released by the party’s nine provincial structures and collated by Bloomberg show. The branches will account for 90 percent of…

Online Fantasy Games Pay Real Money for Desperate Venezuelans

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – They start arriving even before the security shutters at the west Caracas storefront roll up at about 8:30 a.m. For 11 hours a day, they’ll hunch over old-fashioned cathode-ray tube monitors and bang on greasy keyboards in a dim space with a boarded-up window and a blanket of dust. They pause just long enough to smoke cigarettes in the stairwell. And if someone lingers too long, another eager person claims their seat and…

Supreme Court Lets Trump Travel Ban Take Full Effect for Now

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – A divided Supreme Court let President Donald Trump’s ban on travel to the U.S. from six mostly Muslim countries take full effect while legal challenges go forward, handing him a major victory and suggesting the court ultimately will uphold the restrictions. Trump will now be able to bar or limit entry by people from the Mideast and North African nations even if they have a relationship with a U.S.-based person…

Former Nigerian Vice President Abubakar Joins Opposition PDP

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Nigeria’s former vice president Atiku Abubakar, a potential candidate for 2019 presidential elections, announced that he has re-joined the opposition People’s Democratic Party that he helped found. Abubakar said in a video posted to his Facebook account that the ruling All Progressives Congress Party, or APC, which he quit last month, had failed to improve lives and create the 3 million jobs a year it had targeted. “I left the PDP four…

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