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<p>The Lord Mayor of London Peter Estlin is visiting Cape Town, Johannesburg and Nairobi this week. The UK Government is seeking to become Africa’s biggest G7 investor as Brexit looms. The Lord Mayor’s visit seeks to raise engagement with two of the continent’s biggest economies ahead of the UK-Africa Investment Summit in January. CNBC Africa is joined by the right honourable, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alderman Peter Estlin.</p>


What is the City of London doing to prepare for Brexit?

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<p>If you are a South African investor with ties in the UK, CNBC Africa is joined by Tim Mertens, Chairman of Sovereign Trust SA for more on what you should be expecting with Prime Minister Boris pushing the Brexit agenda.</p>


How S.Africans with UK monetary interest are affected by #Brexit

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<p>The world is increasingly becoming fractured. Trade wars have extended beyond the US and China to Japan and South Korea. Boris Johnson, the UK&#8217;s new prime minister, says Brexit will be done and dusted by 31st October. In this climate Africa&#8217;s free trade agreement makes more sense than ever. Rudi Steinbach, Africa Specialist and Senior Economist at the World Bank joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


African Continental Free Trade Area: Is it practical?

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<p>Boris Johnson&#8217;s entrance into the Conservative Party&#8217;s leadership has been one met with some contention. Greenpeace protesters blocked Boris Johnson’s car into Buckingham Palace. Theresa May, in her outgoing speech, warned Boris of going ahead with a no-deal Brexit stance. He delivered his first speech as Britain’s Prime Minister.</p>


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<p>HARARE (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe and the European Union began political talks on Wednesday aimed at turning the page on hostile relations during Robert Mugabe’s rule, a step that could enable a resumption of direct financial aid for the ailing economy.</p>



<p>During Mugabe’s four-decade rule until 2017, he would routinely blame European “colonialists” for Zimbabwe’s problems, and snarled at EU and U.S. sanctions for rights and vote abuses.</p>



<p>The EU has only kept sanctions on Mugabe, his wife and the state arms manufacturer, but is yet to resume direct funding to the new government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, preferring to channel money through local charities and U.N. agencies.</p>



<p>With the economy afflicted by dollar shortages, fuel queues, power-cuts, and soaring prices, Mnangagwa has said restoring ties with the West and multilateral lenders like International Monetary Fund is one of his major priorities.</p>



<p>At the start of the open-ended talks between diplomats and officials in Harare, EU Zimbabwe delegation head Timo Olkkonen said they would discuss issues including economic development, trade, investment, rights, rule of law and good governance.</p>



<p>The government has already signed up to an IMF monitoring programme where it has committed to political and economic reforms in a bid to set a track record of fiscal discipline that could earn it debt forgiveness and future financing.</p>



<p>At a separate event in a Harare hotel, Mnangagwa signed a new bill creating a tripartite negotiating forum intended to bring labour, business and government together to shape policy.</p>



<p>The 76-year-old leader is under pressure to deliver on pre-election promises and wants to avert a repeat of violent protests over a steep fuel price hike in January.</p>



<p>Later on Wednesday, the government is expected to start wage negotiations with public sector unions, who say a pay rise of up to 29% they received in April had already been eroded by inflation, now at a 10-year high of 75.86 %.</p>



<p>Mnangagwa has promised to break with his predecessor and says his “open for business” mantra will woo foreign investors. But critics say under his rule the economy shows no signs of improving while security forces have continued to crush dissent.</p>



<p>Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne </p>


What you need to know about Zimbabwe and EU’s political talks to ease tensions created in Mugabe-era

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<p>Have you ever tried Rwandan coffee? Well, maybe you should, because the Europe Union believes that this award-winning Rwandan crop deserves to be promoted worldwide; the EU alongside the International Coffee Organization and the Ernesto Illy Foundation came together to create a “Symphony of Coffee”. CNBC Africa’s Zwena Bachoo filed this report.</p>


Is it time for Rwandan coffee to go global

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<p>One Young World alongside the European Commission brings together young leaders from every country and sector, working to accelerate social impact. The initiative was launched in 2017 and this year it organized the first caucus under the theme “United Futures: Lessons from Rwanda”. CNBC Africa spoke to Nicola Bellomo, EU ambassador to Rwanda for more on this.</p>


OYW and European Commission host first peacebuilding caucus in Rwanda

<p>STRASBOURG (Reuters) &#8211; The European Union should offer a free trade agreement to the whole of the African continent and a new investment alliance, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in a keynote speech on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Among various proposals for EU action to bolster prosperity in the world’s poorest continent and Europe’s close neighbour, the Commission chief called for a more equal partnership and investment rather than aid, as Europeans look for ways to stem an economic divide driving Africans to try to migrate northward.</p>
<p>Juncker said he had talked with African leaders and was proposing an alliance to boost sustainable investment, which he said could create up to 10 million jobs in Africa in the next five years.</p>
<p>While it was clear that a free trade pact would be some way off, and well after Juncker steps down in a year’s time, the EU would look to take advantage of African efforts to forge a free trade area within the continent to work towards a comprehensive continent-to-continent trade agreement.</p>
<p>Trade between Africa and Europe, said Juncker, was not insignificant &#8211; 36 percent of Africa’s trade is with the European Union, compared to 16 percent with China and 6 percent with the United States.</p>
<p>“But this is not enough,” Juncker told the European Parliament.</p>
<p>“I believe we should develop the numerous European-African trade agreements into a continent-to-continent free trade agreement, as an economic partnership between equals.”</p>
<p>The European Union already has a series of deals with individual African countries, largely in North Africa, as well as additional economic partnerships with African blocs, such as the Southern African Development Community.</p>
<p>Other agreements with other African blocs and countries, designed to increase access to the EU market and promote development, are pending or partly in place.</p>
<p>Reporting by Alastair Macdonald; editing by Philip Blenkinsop</p>


EU could offer the African continent a free trade agreement, what you need to know…

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<p>According to Michael Bolliger, Head: Emerging Market Association at UBS, investors will have to pay close attention to the withdrawal of the monetary policy stimulus in the US and EU as well as global political investments.</p>


Outlook for emerging markets in 2018

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<p>East African countries will receive up to Ksh 3.6 billion from the European Union to fight poaching.</p>


EU commits Ksh3.6bn to fight poaching in East Africa

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<p>CNBC Africa’s caught up with Robert Ridolfi, Director General, Sustainable Growth and Development at the European Commission to get an update on the external investment plan.</p>


European Commission’s Robert Ridolfi gives update on the external Investment plan

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<p>According to Abdou Souleye Diop President of the African South-South Relations Commission there is a need to address the size of Africa&#8217;s informal economy. He spoke to CNBC Africa on the side-lines of the EU-Africa Business forum about the need for Africa to create jobs for its youth.</p>


Africa urged to create more jobs for its youth

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<p>The External Investment Plan aims to encourage investment into partner countries in Africa and the EU, in a bid to leverage over 44 billion Euros of investments by 2020.</p>


External Investment Plan aims to boost investment in Africa and the EU

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<p>The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) will now provide more precise and reliable agricultural data, following continued partnership with the European Union to the tune of 1 Million Euros.</p>


Rwanda, EU partner to provide more reliable agricultural data

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<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s quite fascinating to see this sort of parallel track of those existing members of the EU suddenly being revitalized, rejuvenated and re-encouraged in the face of what they regarded as the adversity of one member wanting to jump ship,&#8221; Lagarde said on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Britain narrowly voted to leave the EU in a referendum on June 23 last year, an event that shocked financial markets as well as commentators across the globe. Meanwhile, formal talks between the U.K. and EU&#8217;s negotiators kicked off in June this year shortly after British Prime Minister Theresa May failed to increase her parliamentary majority in a snap general election.</p>
<div id="inline_movable_ad"> British and EU leaders now have just over a year and a half to negotiate and agree a deal, which will then go to a vote before the European Parliament.</div>
<p>When asked whether countries such as Serbia and Montenegro – both of whom are hoping to become members of the EU – could endanger the future of the bloc, Lagarde stressed the EU had been reinvigorated by the Brexit vote.</p>
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<p>Speaking on the sidelines of an international banking conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Largade argued the European project was &#8220;clearly alive, kicking, an aspiration and an inspiration&#8221; for many countries in the EU.</p>
<p>&#8220;At the same time, some of these non-EU members aspiring to join (are) wanting to accelerate the process. I think that is a very strong sort of double positive message,&#8221; Lagarde told CNBC.</p>
<p><a class="inline_asset" title="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/16/imfs-lagarde-warns-the-uk-against-crash-brexit.html?view=story&amp;%24DEVICE%24=native-android-tablet" href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/16/imfs-lagarde-warns-the-uk-against-crash-brexit.html?view=story&amp;%24DEVICE%24=native-android-tablet">Last month</a>, Lagarde suggested it would be best for the U.K. economy to prioritize a predictable exit from the EU rather than a &#8220;crash situation&#8221;.</p>
<p>In April, the Fund warned that the unpredictability surrounding Brexit posed a risk to global financial stability. It forecast at the time, the U.K. economy would expand 2 percent in 2017, before gross domestic product (<a title="http://www.cnbc.com/gdp/" rel="1">GDP</a>) declines to 1.5 percent in 2018.</p>
<p>However, the institution is unable to calculate precisely how the British economy will suffer from Brexit because it has still to define its future arrangements with the EU.</p>
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<p><em>— CNBC&#8217;s Silvia Amaro and Karen Gilchrist contributed to this report.</em></p>
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IMF’s Lagarde reveals the unintended consequences of Brexit

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<p>CNBC Africa caught up Massimo De Luca, Head of Trade &#038; Economics at the EU for an update of trade relations and also asked him what he thought of the allegations that bird flu in SA comes from European chickens.</p>


Update on the EU-SA trade relations

<p>When G20 leaders meet in <a href="http://www.hamburg.com/g20-2017/">Hamburg in early July</a> they face a problem not on their formal agenda: how to work around Donald Trump. The US president disdains multilateral financial cooperation, is opposed to US participation in the <a href="https://theconversation.com/time-for-china-and-europe-to-lead-as-trump-dumps-the-paris-climate-deal-78709">Paris Agreement on climate change</a> , has shown little interest in, knowledge of, or desire to partner with African countries.</p>
<p>These core issues frame the 2017 <a href="http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/EN/Standardartikel/Topics/Featured/G20/2017-03-30-g20-compact-with-africa.html">G20 agenda</a> with a proposed <a href="http://www.g20.utoronto.ca/2017/161130-agenda.html">“Compact with Africa”</a> slated as the summit’s big initiative. It’s aims will be to encourage private sector investment, support infrastructure development, and greater economic participation and employment in Africa.</p>
<p>In addition to South Africa, the G20’s only African member, the leaders of Guinea, Kenya and Senegal have been invited as guests.</p>
<p>The US convened the first <a href="http://www.g20.utoronto.ca/summits/2008washington.html">2008 G20 Summit</a> in Washington in response to the global financial crisis and has played a leading and constructive role ever since. Such experiments in informal global governance are an anathema to Trump, although he lacks <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/opinion/donald-trump-poisons-the-world.html?action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=opinion-%E2%80%A6">any experience</a> in such matters.</p>
<p>If Africa is to gain the attention in Hamburg the agenda promises, this will have to be without the support and cooperation of the US, at least while Trump is president. But can anything be achieved while this is the case?</p>
<p>If the G20 is to remain relevant in the quest for more inclusive and fair global governance, Africa offers an historic opportunity for collective action, despite US absence. Most urgent is alleviating <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/no-one-is-paying-attention-to-the-worst-humanitarian-crisis-since-world-war-ii/2017/06/25/70d055f8-5767-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.44e26a3031b">the famine in East Africa</a> while China, India, and others among the G20 are showing fresh interest in Africa’s long-term peace and development.</p>
<h2>The Trump factor</h2>
<p>Trump’s first and <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/24/politics/trump-nato-brussels/index.html">only exposure to multilateral summit diplomacy</a> was at NATO’s Brussels headquarters on 25 May. Then immediately to a two-day <a href="http://www.g7italy.it/en/the-taormina-g7-summit">G-7 summit</a> in Sicily. Neither went well. More significant than all the negative media coverage of Trump’s performance, was German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/world/europe/angela-merkel-trump-alliances-g7-leaders.html?_r=0">veiled warning</a> that after 70 years, the US under Trump was no longer a credible ally and Europe</p>
<blockquote><p>must be ready to take our fate into our own hands.</p></blockquote>
<p>Merkel’s comments were probably intended for a global and American domestic audience as well. The US foreign policy elite and public continue to support close ties to Europe. Cooperation with Africa also has been generally popular in America. It is one area of foreign assistance that has enjoyed enduring bi-partisan support <a href="https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/01/25/u-s-africa-policy-recommendations-for-president-trump/">since the early 1990s</a>.</p>
<p>Trump’s antics in Hamburg could detract from the summit and his recalcitrance may complicate setting and slow implementation of the G20 agenda. But, progress on the <a href="http://www.euronews.com/2017/03/13/view-germany-the-g20-protectionism-and-the-compact-with-africa">Africa Compact</a> is still possible with support from the US private and non-governmental sectors. The same goes for climate change and economic cooperation.</p>
<p>How G20 leaders interact with Trump, and comment publicly on the progress or lack of progress in Hamburg will resonate domestically in the US. In deciding what to say publicly, G20 leaders may want to consider recent and escalating US domestic constraints impinging Trump’s presidency.</p>
<h2>Trump’s domestic constraints</h2>
<p>Trump meets all the definitional criteria of a demagogue. His appeal to popular passions and prejudices rather than reason and facts, secured him a base of support that remains loyal.</p>
<p>He has not broadened his popular appeal, polling favourability ratings around 36%, the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/20/the-other-number-that-might-inspire-some-panic-among-congressional-republicans/?utm_term=.6d7e2861fbe9&amp;wpisrc=nl_finance202&amp;wpmm%20=1">lowest ever recorded</a> this early in a first term.</p>
<p>Trump has shown <a href="https://theconversation.com/trumps-leadership-traits-are-bad-news-for-democrats-in-Aafrica-69745%20Among%20G-20">authoritarian traits</a>. And the leaders he appears he will get along with best are those G20 leaders heading authoritarian regimes in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. The US still has the world’s biggest military and economy, but Trump has yet to earn the respect and deference of his G20 peers.</p>
<p>Politicians sometimes lie, but not all to the same degree. The Washington Post’s nonpartisan Fact Checkers <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?tid=a_inl&amp;utm_term=.c1081f9b2c96">recently documented</a> 623 false and misleading claims by Trump in just his first 137 days in office.</p>
<p>Many Americans may be inured to Trump’s off-hand lies, or view it as a cleaver strategy to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/of-course-trump-called-comey-a-liar-thats-his-strategy/2017/06/12/6ff4b4a8-4fa6-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html?utm_term=.026ff1a843bf">keep opponents off balance</a>.</p>
<p>Allegations that Trump may now be under investigation by an independent special counsel for obstructing justice in the FBI’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, possibly in collusion with the Trump campaign, have put his presidency <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-would-a-real-gop-break-from-trump-look-like/?ex_cid=newsletter-top-stories">in even greater peril</a>.</p>
<p>If his own head of intelligence, and other senior officials of his administration, cannot trust him to keep his word, how can foreign leaders? Whatever Trump says at the G20, has to be discounted in light of this, including concurrence with a final joint statement.</p>
<h2>Referees Matter</h2>
<p>Trump’s mendacity points to a much bigger problem. In an era of big data and contested statistical evidence <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/crisis-of-statistics-big-data-democracy">how can opinion be informed</a> by agreed facts to achieve consensus at any political level?</p>
<p>He has ridden rough-shod over decades of research findings regarding the human causes of climate change.</p>
<p>To inform and help frame democratic debate, about such scientifically complicated contested topics as climate, public health, national security, and a raft of other vital policy issues, the public used at least rely on professional journalists to arrive at the <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21706498-dishonesty-politics-nothing-new-manner-which-some-politicians-nw-lie-and">best obtainable version of the truth</a>.</p>
<p>This is no longer sufficient. Trump has advanced politically by questioning scientific evidence, those who produce it and dismisses as “fake news” any journalistic reporting he disagrees with. G20 leaders should not be diplomatic in calling attention to this.</p>
<p>And a positive counter-note to Trump’s cavalier claims would be for the G20 leaders to make clear that they believe in evidence based policymaking, as well as the monitoring and evaluation of recommendations.</p>
<h2>Cooperation without America</h2>
<p>The leaders, individually and together, need to show their commitment to unbiased, honest, and rigorously informed judgements on such issues as the design, priorities, and implementation of their new “Compact with Africa.”</p>
<p>Doing so without US backing adds to the challenge, but is also an opportunity for demonstrating cooperation <a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/global-leadership-successor-to-america-by-richard-n--haass-2017-06">without America playing a central role</a>. So long as Trump is US president, this is likely to also be popular in most G20 countries.</p>
<p>A just released Pew global survey of public attitudes in 37 countries (including six in Africa &#8211; Senegal, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Ghana) toward the US under Trump shows a 15% drop in positive views of the US (64%-49%) <a href="http://www.pewglobal.org/2017/06/26/u-s-image-suffers-as-publics-around-world-question-trumps-leadership/">since Barack Obama left office</a>. Confidence in the US presidency under Trump, however, fell a stunning 41%. Only in Russia, and Israel is Trump regarded more favourably than Obama.</p>
<p>Far more important that thwarting Trump, however, will be gaining public support for the “Compact with Africa” and the rest of the Hamburg agenda. Justifying these costly and complex commitments in positive ways will be a tougher political challenge; but one perhaps rendered easier without Trump or his representative claiming a seat at the head of the table.</p>


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EU commits Ksh3.6bn to fight poaching in East Africa

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IMF’s Lagarde reveals the unintended consequences of Brexit

Update on the EU-SA trade relations

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