WEEKAHEAD-AFRICA-FX-Kenyan shilling seen pressured while Zambian Kwacha could firm

Cross-boarder use of Kwacha, shilling to boost trade at border  The Citizen Daily

Tanga Cement Company incurred a loss of Sh6.9 billion in the first six months of this year.

One of the leading operators of masts for mobile phones in Africa, Eaton Towers, has put together $350m for new acquisitions, alongside a major deal in Egypt.

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Kenyan Kids 'Brightest' in East Africa
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KENYAN children performed better in reading and maths compared to their counterparts in Tanzania and Uganda, an annual learning assessment by Uwezo has shown. Children aged 10 to 16 passed the literacy and numeracy test by 64 per cent in Kenya, ...
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Satirist questions whose side the Kenyan police are on

>Siemens of South Africa is planning to invest in Tanzania’s energy sector.

Be Afriwise from Citizen Kaizen on Vimeo.

Two well-known lawyers on the African scene, Steven De Backer and Olivier Binyingo, recently launched Afriwise consult (http://www.afriwise.com) to offer clients a more holistic consulting approach and access to genuine on-the-ground expertise in Sub Saharan Africa, with procedures for quality assurance and a strong underlying ethical culture. Having worked together for a number of years, both as local and regional counsel on the African continent,...

A Mauritius-based financial services firm, afb, which provides innovative consumer and SME financial products, has signed a $20 million (about Sh40 billion) investment deal with GEMCORP, that enables the former to hasten its speed of growth within sub-Saharan Africa.

Following a year of growth and progress in its business, pan-African telecommunications enabler Seacom will be hunting for growth in new African territories in 2014, as well as continuing its evolution from a cable operator into an infrastructure provider that offers a range of IP solutions to service providers and operator customers.