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French Ambassador to Nigeria, Jerome Pasquier; President/CE, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote; French Minister for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness, Franck Riester; and Managing Director, Aliko Dangote Foundation, Zouera Youssoufou during French Minister's busines visit to Dangote Industries Head Office in Lagos

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Nigeria: France looking for reset in relationship with Africa, says minister

Paris is working on a new, and fairer way to engage with Africa, especially as it looks to expand its bilateral relationship with Nigeria - the ... biggest economy on the continent, says Franck Riester, France's minister of foreign trade and attractiveness, in an interview from Abuja

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Egypt gears up for resumption of government IPOs

Egypt needs to make its private sector more attractive to investors if its long-awaited programme of initial public offerings (IPOs) is to succeed. ...

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Africa: All the buzz about edible insects

Mango season in Kenya means one thing for InsectiPro: mounds of rotten fruit. And that is a big win for InsectiPro, which farms black soldier ... flies (BSF), a voracious insect that will feed on almost any type of organic waste. Fully-grown, BSF larvae are basically little protein bars, a highly valuable commodity in the world of animal feed.

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South Africa’s BankservAfrica plans payments platform for SADC countries

South African clearing house BankservAfrica is preparing to launch a regional platform to accelerate payments in Southern Africa, CEO Jan Pilbauer ... tells The Africa Report.

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Traders work at the Egyptian stock exchange in Cairo

resuscitating stock

Egypt gears up for resumption of government IPOs

popular delicacy

Africa: All the buzz about edible insects

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South Africa’s BankservAfrica plans payments platform for SADC countries

Traders work at the Egyptian stock exchange in Cairo

resuscitating stock

Egypt gears up for resumption of government IPOs

popular delicacy

Africa: All the buzz about edible insects

Instant Cash

South Africa’s BankservAfrica plans payments platform for SADC countries

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Ghana’s Hollard to partner with African e-commerce company to sell insurance

Hollard Ghana is close to partnering with a major African e-commerce company to distribute insurance products online, CEO Patience Akyianu tells ... The Africa Report.

Takeaway time

Kenya/Côte d’Ivoire/Tunisia: Delivery companies set up shop in Africa

The fierce competition within the online delivery sector is prompting Western services to invest in as many markets as quickly as possible. ...

Trading positions

Botswana: Stock exchange seeks to improve liquidity and reverse trend of delistings

Botswana’s stock exchange plans to introduce global depositary receipts (GDRs) and trading in short-term debt instruments to attract issuers ... and increase the market’s liquidity, CEO Thapelo Tsheole tells The Africa Report.

Digital transformation

Econet’s Zimbabwean CEO Strive Masiyiwa to invest in data centres on the continent

Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa, who has raised more than $1bn to ensure the growth of his group Econet, has ranked first in our exclusive ... Africa Digital ranking.

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Naspers, Prosus need buybacks to cut discount, as Tencent sale underwhelms

A partial reduction of the stake in Chinese tech giant Tencent will do little to reduce the discounts of Naspers and Prosus shares unless followed ... up with more share buybacks.

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Banking on Recovery

South African and Kenyan banks may beat Nigeria to post-Covid recovery

African banks that have raised their loan-loss provisions to reflect the impact of Covid-19 may be best placed for a quick recovery once the ... worst of the pandemic is over, analysts say.

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