African Union to launch continent's first credit rating agency

By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The African Union will launch the continent's first credit rating agency on ...

Analysis-Africa's biggest IPO exposes continent's cross-border investing barriers

By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The historic stock market debut of Nigeria's Dangote refinery was billed as an ...
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African Union launches continent’s first credit rating agency to counter what it says is bias inflating borrowing costs

The AfCRA aims to provide an alternative to the Big Three firms that dominate the market and which African leaders accuse of ...
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Africa Is Breaking Apart Faster Than We Thought, Forming a New Ocean

(FrankRamspott/E+/Getty Images) Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a "critical threshold" and will soon break ...
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Is Africa splitting into two continents?

The East African Rift is a network of valleys that stretches from the Red Sea to Mozambique. Here, we see cultivated fields in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia. (Image credit: LuCaAr via Getty Images) A ...
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Why is Africa, a continent rich in resources, still so poor?

Consider Monaco, where 1.5 litres of drinking water can reportedly cost as much as $6. Meanwhile, Burkina Faso, one of the ...
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African Union to launch continent's first credit rating agency in Mauritius

The African Union is launching the continent’s first credit rating agency on Wednesday, aiming to provide an alternative to ...