Africa / Opinion
COMMENT: Sub-Saharan Africa recovery stuck in low gear
Sub-Saharan Africa is poised for a gradual economic upturn in the coming years, buoyed by an enhanced external milieu that diminishes the risk of significant currency devaluations and sovereign defaults.
ING: What the Red Sea crisis could mean for commodity markets
Attacks by Iranian-backed Houthis from Yemen on commercial vessels passing through the Red Sea have made some shipowners reluctant to sail via the Suez Canal and Red Sea.
IMF: China’s slowdown will hit sub-Saharan growth
China has forged deep economic ties with countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the past 20 years, making it the region's largest single country trading partner so China's economic slowdown will hurt Africa.
G20 underlines that fracturing is becoming a reality
The G20 summit which concluded yesterday in New Delhi supported our view that the global economy is fracturing into US and China-led blocs, and that India still leans to the former.
COMMENT: Economic impact of Morocco’s earthquake will be limited
The devastating earthquake that struck Morocco on Friday night has left a trail of destruction with an estimated 2,500 dead at the last count, in a death toll that is bound to rise further.