The Kenyan and Ugandan shillings, Ghanaian cedi and Zambia’s kwacha are all expected to ease against the dollar in the next week to Thursday, traders said. KENYA Kenya’s shilling KES= is forecast to ...

Shell SHEL.L will write down around $400 million over an oil discovery offshore Namibia that it deemed commercially unviable in a blow to the southern African country’s efforts to become a crude ...

The following scheduled economic events, equity and currency market moves may affect South African markets on Thursday. ECONOMIC EVENTS November manufacturing output ZAMAN=ECI SOUTH AFRICAN MARKETS ...

Tanzania’s central bank left its key interest rate TZINTR=ECI unchanged at 6% on Wednesday, holding it steady for a third ...

President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly called for the elimination of the federal Department of Education. Where someone ...

China Development Bank has released a $254.76 million loan to Nigeria for a railway project linking the two northern states ...

Ghana’s consumer inflation GHCPIY=ECI rose for a fourth month in a row in December, to 23.8% year on year from 23.0% in November, the statistics service said on Wednesday. Government statistician ...

Zambia’s kwacha ZMW= has hit a series of record lows since the start of the year as a severe drought keeps the pressure firmly on the copper-producing Southern African country’s economy. Analysts had ...