Features | - Part 211

Lagarde Says Trump’s Fiscal Plans Likely to Boost U.S. Economy

KAMPALA (Capital Markets in Africa) – President Donald Trump’s plans to overhaul the U.S. tax system and increase infrastructure spending should accelerate growth in the world’s biggest economy over the next two years, said International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde. “We think there is a high probability of that in the next couple of years,” Lagarde said Friday in an interview in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, where she met President Yoweri Museveni. In an economic update…

Barrow Returns to Gambia as President Amid High Expectations

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BANJUL (Capital Markets in Africa) – Gambian President Adama Barrow returned from neighboring Senegal to take office after his predecessor went into exile under a threat by West African leaders to remove him by force. Barrow touched down at 5 p.m. at the airport in the capital, Banjul, on Thursday as thousands gathered for his arrival a week after his inauguration at the Gambian embassy in Senegal. This is “a proud day day for Gambians and a…

Chinese Billions Fail to Sway Taiwan’s Last Allies in Africa

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Taiwan’s last two African allies have no plans to switch allegiances and break ties with Taipei as Beijing tries to woo the self-ruled island’s diplomatic partners. Burkina Faso won’t cut relations with Taiwan despite people and companies with links to China offering funding in return for recognition of the One-China principle, according to Foreign Minister Alpha Barry. Swaziland said its relationship with Taiwan is based on mutual interests, not…

Nigerian MPC Member Turns on Central Bank over Policy Paradox

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Nigeria is undermining its own efforts to tame inflation and strengthen the naira by “pretending” to tighten policy while boosting the money supply, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee said in an extraordinary attack on the central bank published a day before the first interest-rate decision of the year. While the MPC raised the benchmark interest rate to a record 14 percent last year, the central bank’s management was…

Guinness Nigeria to Convert Loans to Shares to Conserve Funds

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Guinness Nigeria Plc, the country’s second-biggest brewer, plans to convert a portion of dollar-denominated loans from parent Diageo Plc into shares to limit the impact of exchange-rate volatility and conserve cash. “We don’t want to be holding foreign-currency loans,” ChairmanBabatunde Savage told shareholders at a meeting in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, on Tuesday. The company’s cash flow is already under pressure from a Nigerian economic downturn, he said. The company took out…

OPEC Shrugs Off Threat Trump’s America Will Cut Oil Imports

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – OPEC’s two biggest suppliers to the U.S. shrugged off a vow by President Donald Trump to end dependence on the group’s oil, saying the world’s biggest economy would continue to need crude from abroad. The U.S. is “closely integrated in the global energy market,” Saudi Arabia’s Energy and Industry Minister Khalid Al-Falih said, while his Venezuelan counterpart Nelson Martinez said he expects his country’s crude exports to the world’s top consumer to remain stable. “The…

Mauritian Premier Succeeded by Son as Opposition Plans Protest

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Port Louis (Capital Markets in Africa) – Pravind Jugnauth took over as Mauritius’s new prime minister, a day after his father resigned and bequeathed the premiership to his son, as the opposition announced plans to demonstrate against the transfer of power. Jugnauth, 55, was sworn in Monday at a ceremony in the capital, Port Louis, and said he would retain his portfolio in the Finance Ministry. Opposition parties will gather in the city on Friday to…

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