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<p>Traders say Nigerian Treasury Bill (NTB) yields rose about 70 basis points over escalating trade tensions between the U.S and China. For more details on this week’s activities at the Money market in Nigeria, Nnamdi Olisaeloka, fixed income, currencies and commodities Analyst at Zedcrest Capital joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Investors assess political risk profile as US-China trade tensions escalate

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<p>Tomorrow will see the inauguration of the Golden Business Forum (GBF) in Kigali, Rwanda. The event is designed to be an annual high-level business platform bringing together investors from around the world to identify and facilitate partnership deals and discuss the challenges that are hampering business opportunities in Africa. The hosts, Private Sector Federation (PSF) of Rwanda, are prepared to receive hundreds of international investors from across the continent, Europe, China and the US. CEO and Spokesperson of PSF,  Theoneste Ntagengerwa joins CBNC Africa for more.</p>


How Rwanda plans to benefit from the inaugural Golden Business Forum

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<p>Nigeria’s equities market reversed the marginal gains from Monday. To review trading activities, Ajike Taiwo, Research Analyst at FSDH Merchant Bank joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Nigerian equities reverses Monday’s gains


<p>JOHANNESBURG/VRYHEID, South Africa (Reuters) &#8211; Cattle have long been considered a measure of wealth across Africa &#8211; but it is not just farmers cashing in.</p>



<p>A pioneering app in South Africa lets investors, eager to benefit from rising global beef demand, buy shares in a cow from their mobile phone for as little as 576 rand ($41).</p>



<p>Self-styled “crowd-farming” company Livestock Wealth connects investors with small-scale farmers via its “MyFarmbook” app, where they can buy their own cow and receive interest rates of between 5% and 14% depending on where they put their money.</p>



<p>Launched in 2015 with 26 cows, the project now includes more than 2,000 cows and has taken in 50 million rand, with 10 percent of investors coming from outside South Africa.</p>



<p>Groups of investors can buy a whole cow, while individuals can purchase shares in a pregnant cow or young calf.</p>



<p>A pregnant cow costs 18,730 rand and takes 12 months before the newborn calf can be sold for a return, while investing in a calf costs 11,529 rand and takes six months for it to grow enough to be sold.</p>



<p>“We can link small scale farmers to big markets by introducing private capital into the growing phase,” said 38 year-old Livestock Wealth founder and CEO Ntuthuko Shezi, who was inspired by his grandparents’ farming success.</p>



<p>“The household bank account was a crop,” added Shezi of his family experience, standing among a herd of cattle at a partner farm in Vryheid, a ranching town in northern KwaZulu-Natal province.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">“EASIER” THAN REAL FARMING</h3>



<p>Livestock contributes around 51% to the agricultural economy in South Africa, with global sheep and beef prices rising after droughts in major producing areas.</p>



<p>“Many people live in urban areas and they have interests in participating in farming but they cannot physically be there and this offers them a platform to do that,” said Wandile Sihlobo, economist with South African agribusiness association Agbiz.</p>



<p>Small business consultant Nontokozo Sabela, 34, was once interested in farming &#8211; but found the app a better alternative.</p>



<p>She bought her first cow in 2016 and earned around 6,000 rand from it. “This way it’s easier for me, it’s cheaper, it’s convenient,” said Sabela.</p>



<p>As with any investment, however, risks exist. Both the impact of weather on feed costs and fluctuations in global demand for beef can affect the cow investments.</p>



<p>Shezi now hopes to expand his business into the produce market after launching a vegetable growing system this month that aims to give a 220 rand return per month over five years.</p>



<p>($1 = 14.1696 rand)</p>



<p>Reporting by Tanisha Heiberg; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne<br></p>


Is African cattle investment the new cash cow? Here’s how investors are cashing in…

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<p>Nigerian investors will have to wait a little longer for Airtel Africa&#8217;s new listing date to be announced by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). Femi Oladehin, Partner, Investment Banking at Argentil Capital Partners joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


NSE postpones Airtel Africa listing

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<p>Starting today and for the next four days, policy makers, innovators, investors, tech giants, all under one roof with one agenda; conducting deliberations under the theme – “Boosting Africa’s digital Economy”.</p>


Transform Africa Summit 2019 kicks off in Rwanda

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<p>Just a few days to go to the World Economic Forum 2019 in Davos Switzerland, Sean Drake founder and entrepreneur at the Wealth Project joins CNBC Africa to discuss what the year might have in store for investors and entrepreneurs.</p>


Here’s what 2019 has in store for entrepreneurs

<p>By: Amadou Hott, Vice-President of Power, Energy, Climate Change &amp; Green Growth at the African Development Bank</p>
<p>Accessible, reliable and affordable energy is the cornerstone of transformational socio-economic development. For Africa, delivering sustainable development is dependent on meeting the continent’s energy needs in order to lift populations out of poverty, catalyze industrialization, and stimulate economic growth.</p>
<p>Despite the continent’s abundant energy resources, energy poverty is still rife in the continent with close to 600 million people lacking access to electricity. This sets nations back on meeting energy access goals, retards industry progress, and diminishes the continent’s economic growth by 2 to 4 percent every year.</p>
<p>On a positive note, energy access has improved in recent years with the number of people without access in sub-Saharan Africa falling for the first time in absolute terms, and with countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda leading the pace. Africa is at the forefront of distributed energy systems that can increase energy access in rural areas faster, more cheaply, and more widely than conventional grid extension, driven by innovative business models and rapidly decreasing technology costs. At the same time, renewables are on the rise across the continent with significant renewable generation capacities added in countries such as Egypt, Morocco and South Africa.</p>
<p>Renewable energy investments are also on the rise across the continent from Senegal, to Kenya, and Zambia. While this progress is encouraging, the pace of energy access falls far short of meeting the universal energy access target by 2030.</p>
<p>Closing the gap on Africa’s energy challenges presents major opportunities for investors keen on engaging with the continent, especially on helping Africa meet the shortfall in the estimated $90 billion required to achieve universal energy access by 2030.</p>
<p>Clearly, these financing needs are of such magnitude that no single institution is capable of meeting them in isolation. This is why development finance institutions need a pragmatic shift in how they do business and leverage scarce public resources in order to mobilize private sector financing at scale, “from billions to trillions”.</p>
<p>The African Development Bank is leading by example. For instance, the Bank launched the Facility for Energy Inclusion to close funding gaps in the small-scale energy infrastructure sector, and catalyze last-mile energy access. Through a mix of commercial and concessional instruments, the facility provides low cost of capital, and mitigates key credit and currency risks. Additionally, the recently approved the Room2Run transaction allows the Bank to effectively transfer the credit risks of selected loan portfolios to investors, which lowers the total risk consumption of the Bank.</p>
<p>This initiative will enable the Bank to recycle capital efficiently in order to boost lending capacity and enhance private sector investments. The transaction has already attracted major support from partners like the European Commission who will provide a $100 million guarantee to be channeled into renewable energy projects in Africa. Ultimately, this will free up around $700 million, which can be re-allocated to new projects.</p>
<p>Multiple barriers hinder investments and private sector participation which could potentially fast-track energy access. These include lack of an enabling policy environment for investors, and other systemic bottlenecks that slow down transactions and escalate project costs. Transforming the energy landscape calls for a multi-faceted approach to unlock private sector capital by resolving these barriers in order to create the ideal conditions for investments in the continent.</p>
<p>The African Development Bank in close collaboration with other development partners is perched on the apex of creating a vibrant marketplace that will deliver the energy transformation necessary to move Africa forward. The Bank is dedicated to eliminating and minimizing barriers for investors, primarily through financial instruments to de-risk transactions, disseminating knowledge and market data, and facilitating peer-to peer learning and networking. Private sector engagement is on the rise, buoyed by various partnerships such as the New Deal on Energy for Africa and the US-led Power Africa Initiative.</p>
<p>To sustain this momentum, the bank convened the inaugural Africa Energy Market Place (AEMP) in Abidjan in July 2018. The AEMP is a platform for public private dialogue, and is set up to address barriers to mobilizing and scaling-up private investment into the energy sector. Effectively, AEMP reviews and prioritizes transformative energy transactions, and accelerates reforms in order to attract private investments and create a pipeline of bankable projects. Five countries participated in the inaugural edition: Côte d&#8217;Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Zambia.</p>
<p>The conversations that began at the AEMP are set to continue in November’s Africa Investment Forum (AIF) in South Africa. The forum convenes project sponsors, borrowers, lenders and investors with a shared interest in closing Africa’s infrastructure gap which is estimated to be anywhere between $130–$170 billion per year.</p>
<p>By convening,and facilitating mutually beneficial dialogue amongst stakeholders who can dramatically impact Africa’s energy landscape, the Bank is creating the requisite foundation for accelerated private sector investments in Africa’s energy sector to achieve universal energy access.</p>
<p>Indisputably, this will put the continent steadily on the path to socio-economic growth, and sustainable development.</p>


OpEd: Why financing Africa’s energy infrastructure is a major opportunity for investors

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<p>South African investors are increasingly seeking shelter via offshore exposure. But, according to David Nathanson, Global Equity Specialist at Bellwood Capital, it is important for investors to consider the implications of counting on locally listed rand-hedged stocks as a substitute for a truly global portfolio.</p>


Why JSE rand hedges are a poor substitute for a global portfolio

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<p>Investors have staked an additional 250 billion naira into Nigeria&#8217;s rice production following the government&#8217;s plans to establish additional 14 rice mills in the country.</p>


Investors to stake fresh N250bn in Nigeria rice production

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<p>The Nigerian Stock Exchange has introduced a corporate governance index that it says will help increase transparency, and provide investors additional data points upon which to make sound decisions.</p>


NSE introduces corporate governance index

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<p>Over 100 million start-ups are estimated to open every year globally. However with the changing trends, the dilemma we all have is in creating a balance between investors who continue to show preference for tech based businesses, and brick and mortar companies that still have enormous potential. Joining CNBC Africa for more is Junior Kanamugire Founder of Pikiwash a start-up that won the Seedstars Rwandan chapter and Lebo Gunguluza, Entrepreneur and Dragon Investor.</p>


How to fund Africa’s technology start-ups

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<p>The chequered political career of Emmerson Mnangagwa proves that everything comes to those who wait. In this CNBC Africa Explainer we bring you an inside view of who’s Zimbabwe’s next president.  Mnangagwa is expected to be sworn in on Friday.</p>


Explainer: Who is Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s next president?

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<p>How will President Mugabe&#8217;s resignation as president of Zimbabwe affect foreign investors in the country? Judith Tyson, Research fellow at Overseas Development Institute joins CNBC Africa to discuss this.</p>


Building confidence key to revive Zimbabwe’s economy – Expert

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<p>Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola says the private sector has the capacity to stir up more economic impact in the power sector than the government.</p>


Nigeria solicits private sector support to improve ease of doing business

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<p>Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority CEO Uche Orji says security, safety of investments and credibility of government in honouring contracts through various administrations are very important when trying to attract investors to a state.</p>


Here’s how I think Nigeria can spur foreign investment – NSIA CEO

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<p>Former Governor of Edo state, Adams Oshiomhole says 50 new companies have been established in Edo State between 2012 and 2016. CNBC Africa caught up with him to discuss government’s efforts to attract investors into Edo state and much more.</p>


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