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Country Report

MENDING EGYPT’S DAMAGED ECONOMY

COUNTRY REPORT | EGYPT Pressure is building on Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to deliver economic gains. Falling investment and a sharp drop in tourist arrivals have weakened growth over the past three years. But a rapid return to pre-2011 expansion levels appears unlikely.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MOROCCO: STABLE, AND WELL-SITUATED

FRONTIER MARKETS REPORT | MOROCCO Morocco boasts solid outward FDI, geopolitical stability and proximity to key markets, but corruption is commonplace.

Banking

ECONOMIC AFTERSHOCKS

DEAR READER Geopolitical instability seems to be everywhere these days, whether we look to North Africa and the Middle East or Eastern Europe, to Southern Asia or Southeast Asia, and it weighs on financial markets and policymakers worldwide.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MALAWI: NEW PRESIDENT BLESSING IN DISGUISE FOR FOREIGN DONORS

MALAWI A struggling economy and widespread corruption are but a few of the challenges new Malawian president Peter Mutharika will face during his five-year mandate.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

NIGERIA: LIGHTING UP THE POWER SECTOR

COUNTRY REPORT | NIGERIA Nigeria lacks one key element for stellar growth: a power sector commensurate with its prospects.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

RECORD KENYAN BOND WHETS APPETITE FOR AFRICAN DEBT

FINANCE & CAPITAL | TRENDS: SOVEREIGN DEBT

Banking

SALON: EBENEZER ESSOKA, STANDARD CHARTERED

Ebenezer Essoka, a native of Cameroon, is vice chair for Africa at Standard Chartered. He sat down with Global Finance to discuss African trade and the need for African policymakers to ensure that foreign investment deals are in the best interest of all stakeholders.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Africa

MENDING EGYPT’S DAMAGED ECONOMY

MOROCCO: STABLE, AND WELL-SITUATED

ECONOMIC AFTERSHOCKS

MALAWI: NEW PRESIDENT BLESSING IN DISGUISE FOR FOREIGN DONORS

NIGERIA: LIGHTING UP THE POWER SECTOR

RECORD KENYAN BOND WHETS APPETITE FOR AFRICAN DEBT

SALON: EBENEZER ESSOKA, STANDARD CHARTERED

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood – Terrorists?

Sukuk Gaining Ground In Africa

ANC OVERCOMES ECONOMIC DOLDRUMS TO WIN REELECTION

NIGERIA: WHAT’S NEXT FOR AFRICA’S LARGEST ECONOMY?

African Union Launches Catastrophe Insurance For Member Countries