As we’d expected, figures out this week showed that South Africa’s economy contracted sharply in Q3. Early signs are that conditions remained difficult in Q4, raising the risk of another technical recession. Elsewhere, new FX reserve figures from Nigeria underlined the failure of policymakers’ protectionist schemes and new Kenyan port regulations raised more questions about the viability of the Mombasa-Nairobi rail line
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