Long
- Hotel bars in Accra: The newly-minted AfCFTA secretariat in the Ghanaian capital will mean more high-level officials from the international bureaucracy – the delight of hotel bar owners;
- Mercenaries: Conflicts in northern Mozambique and north-east Nigeria mean rich pickings for security professionals;
- Cobalt miners: With the surging green-focused economy will come a surge of interest in cobalt from the DRC and Zambia.
Short
- The naira and kwanza: Oil-backed currencies are a hard sell with depressed prices globally at the best times, and Nigeria and Angola are not having the best of times;