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<p>The key focus areas revolve around unlocking the potential of Africa&#8217;s digital networks to drive economic growth through e-commerce. Currently, Africa is experiencing a digital revolution, with increasing internet penetration and mobile connectivity driving the growth of online commerce. Interventions have included efforts to improve digital infrastructure, promote digital literacy and create enabling environments for e-commerce businesses.</p>


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Connected Africa Summit 2024: Digital Trade & E-Commerce: Unlocking Strength in Our Network

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<p>Traders at UBA say the bond market is closing the week with mixed sentiments and a handful on interest seen on the 2027s and 2034 papers. For the T-bills side, demand is seen on the short to mid end of the curve with improved supply seen on the long end of the curve. Kenneth Onuoha, Team Member, Assets and Liabilities at UBA joins CNBC Africa for more market movements.</p>


UBA: Interest seen on 2027, 2034 bonds

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<p>Private-public partnership sets the foundation for economic growth, job creation and integrating SMMEs to the global platform. This Focus On special puts the spotlight on the completed oil refinery pipeline in Richards Bay and what the future holds for this region.</p>


Focus On: Private-public investment at Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone

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<p>Traders at Access Bank expect the bullish run seen at the bond market to be sustained owing to the improved market liquidity and high demand for debt instruments. Kolawole Komolafe, Treasury Team Member at Access Bank joins CNBC Africa for more market movements.</p>


Access: Improved liquidity, demand drive bullish run

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<p>Join this panel discussion to uncover East Africa&#8217;s economic potential, with representatives from the International Finance Corporation, African Development Bank-Rwanda and Southbridge. Discover opportunities for collaboration, support, and economic transformation.</p>


Unleashing East Africa’s Economic Potential

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<p>Join CNBC Africa for the latest series Startup Caps, a new show which aims to champion the continent’s startup ecosystem. The show will tackle the latest happenings in the African startup space and profile investors, startup founders, and other significant players in the ecosystem. In the first episode we explore what the investment landscape for startups looks like and speak to startups who share some of their experience and challenges.</p>


Startup Caps EP1: Understanding the investment landscape for African startups

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<p>The replenishment of the International Development Association resources, or IDA 21 highlights the key sectors in need of transformation to sustain economic growth in Africa. This special will focus on the unity and catalytic power of the IDA as the World Bank outlines coalitions with the African countries.</p>


IDA 21 Africa Heads of State Summit 2024: Launch of the IDA Coalition

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<p>Amid multiple external shocks and the great challenge of the green energy transition, 19 African heads of state gathered for the World Bank&#8217;s International Development Association for Africa Heads of State Summit to identify key financing priorities for the continent. CNBC Africa brings key messaging from the summit and key outcomes that are rooted in transforming Africa for the better.</p>


IDA 21 Africa Heads of State Summit 2024: Opening Ceremony & Keynote Address

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<p>Analysts expect sustained dampened activity in the equities market this week with minimal positive triggers to stimulate buy interests. Meanwhile investors are weighing earnings releases as banks race to submit their implementation plan following the CBN’s recapitalization move. Mukhtar Mohammed, Analyst at Assar Investments joins CNBC Africa for more market updates.</p>


Investors digest Q1’24 earnings release

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<p>Energy is a fundamental component of the modern industrial economy and yet 43 per cent of Africans lack access to electricity, this is according to the International Energy Agency. This Focus On episode explores the Namibia International Energy Conference and unpacks how Namibia can use energy as a catalyst for economic prosperity.</p>


Focus On: Using energy as a catalyst for Namibia’s economic prosperity


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<p>Africa needs to create a new development model that better connects its businesses with local communities in order to escape the current system which has left as it burdened by high unemployment and underdevelopment.</p>



<p>Current development models are a product of colonization and were designed to extract its resources with the bulk of the value realized abroad, Hippolyte Fofack, a former chief economist and director of research at the African Export-Import Bank, is a research associate at the Harvard University Center for African Studies says in a research paper.</p>



<p>&#8220;Connecting with history and bridging the philosophical and cultural discontinuity between Africa’s past and present is fundamental to closing the gap between actual output and potential and setting the region on the path to lasting prosperity,&#8221; he says. &#8220;More than any other region of the world, political and economic management in Africa has been underpinned by a highly extroverted model of institutional governance, by institutional models that are largely alien.&#8221;</p>



<p>Africa has some of the highest unemployment and poverty rates in the world led by its largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa with rates above 30 percent. Fofack says poverty is now an African problem whereas in the 1970s it was an Asian problem because Asia was able to largely preserve its philosophical and cultural heritage.</p>



<p>While in 1970 over 80% of the world’s poor lived in Asia, by 2000, 75% of the world’s poor lived in Africa, he says. Recent estimates would probably be higher, he adds, citing his own research and that of Tetteh Baah, an economist with the Global Poverty and Inequality Data team at the World Bank.</p>



<p>&#8220;This stickiness of the colonial development model amid shifting geographical patterns of trade raises serious obstacles in the quest for a more prosperous and climate-resilient future for Africa,&#8221; Fofack says.</p>



<p>The International Monetary Fund says sub-Saharan growth will reach 3.8 percent this year, slightly higher than the 3.4 percent attained last year, with nearly two thirds of the region anticipating higher expansion. But it still faces high borrowing costs, climate change and global external shocks it can do little about.</p>



<p>While the fund suggests the continent needs more support from international partners and further implementation of structural reforms to diversify funding sources and economies, Fofack argues should fundamentally rethink its reliance on multinational companies for its development.</p>



<p>&#8220;Only in that way can Africa’s business model be sustainable and find success in resolving our debilitating development paradox, wherein the world’s most resource-rich continent has been made to believe that it is the poorest,&#8221; he says.</p>



<p>&#8220;Insufficient emphasis on philosophy and intellectual leadership in Africa has caused policymaking across the region to be reduced to managing balance of payments crises, aggravated by the colonial development model of resource extraction, far removed from the desired projection into the future shaped by Africa’s history and foundational roots.&#8221;</p>


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African philosophers must create new development model for continent

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<p>Analysts at Cardinal Stone Securities say they expect the Nigerian equities market to witness mixed sentiments as first-quarter earnings of listed companies&#8217; trickle in. Adebayo Adebanjo, Senior Analyst at Cardinal Stone Securities, joins CNBC Africa for this discussion.</p>


Q1’24 earnings to drive mixed sentiments in Nigeria equities

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<p>Traders at UBA expect FAAC inflows and coupon payments on 2029 and 2049 papers to boost system liquidity as demand persists on the newly issued 24th April 2025 bill. Kenneth Onuoha, Team Member, Assets and Liabilities at UBA joins CNBC Africa for more market updates.</p>


UBA: FAAC, coupon payments to boost system liquidity

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<p>Traders at Access Bank say they expect more profit-taking in the bonds market today as investors turn their attention to on-the-run securities. Bosun Obembe, Team Lead at Access Bank, joins CNBC Africa for a market update.</p>


Access: Investors cherry pick on-the-run bonds

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<p>Explore how Rwanda&#8217;s ground-breaking collaboration with football giants Arsenal, Bayern Munich, and Paris Saint-Germain is shaping the future of Rwandan football.</p>


Rwanda’s partnership with Europe’s top football clubs pays dividends

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<p>The 6th edition of the Namibia International Energy Conference 2024 is taking place under the theme: ‘Reimagine Resource-Rich Namibia: Turning Possibilities into Prosperity&#8217;. Join CNBC Africa as we bring you insights from energy stakeholders, the Namibian government and investors on Namibia&#8217;s energy landscape and the potential to foster partnerships for energy industry growth.</p>


NIEC 2024: Reimagine Resource-Rich Namibia: Turning Possibilities into Prosperity

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<p>Investors have their focus fixed on today’s Primary Market Auction as existing T-Bills totalling 142.57 billion naira will mature and be rolled over. Chuka Nwachukwu, Head of ALM and Balance Sheet Management at UBA joins CNBC Africa for expected outcome and other market movements.</p>


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Connected Africa Summit 2024: Digital Trade & E-Commerce: Unlocking Strength in Our Network

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Access: Improved liquidity, demand drive bullish run

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IDA 21 Africa Heads of State Summit 2024: Launch of the IDA Coalition

IDA 21 Africa Heads of State Summit 2024: Opening Ceremony & Keynote Address

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African philosophers must create new development model for continent

Q1’24 earnings to drive mixed sentiments in Nigeria equities

UBA: FAAC, coupon payments to boost system liquidity

Access: Investors cherry pick on-the-run bonds

Rwanda’s partnership with Europe’s top football clubs pays dividends

NIEC 2024: Reimagine Resource-Rich Namibia: Turning Possibilities into Prosperity

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Connected Africa Summit 2024: Digital Trade & E-Commerce: Unlocking Strength in Our Network

UBA: Interest seen on 2027, 2034 bonds

Focus On: Private-public investment at Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone

Access: Improved liquidity, demand drive bullish run

Unleashing East Africa’s Economic Potential

Startup Caps EP1: Understanding the investment landscape for African startups

IDA 21 Africa Heads of State Summit 2024: Launch of the IDA Coalition

IDA 21 Africa Heads of State Summit 2024: Opening Ceremony & Keynote Address

Investors digest Q1’24 earnings release

Focus On: Using energy as a catalyst for Namibia’s economic prosperity

African philosophers must create new development model for continent

Q1’24 earnings to drive mixed sentiments in Nigeria equities

UBA: FAAC, coupon payments to boost system liquidity

Access: Investors cherry pick on-the-run bonds

Rwanda’s partnership with Europe’s top football clubs pays dividends

NIEC 2024: Reimagine Resource-Rich Namibia: Turning Possibilities into Prosperity

Investors focus on ₦142.57bn T-Bills auction

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