Financial and business news from Africa.
World Service,·140 episodes
The resignation of the Tanzanian finance minster
05 Nov 1996,·29 mins
Benin's budget is criticised by unions despite slashing government pay and allowances
29 Oct 1996,·30 mins
The Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions is formed but is it a sweetheart union?
21 Oct 1996,·29 mins
Sanctions on Burundi are reinforced following its refusal to negotiate
15 Oct 1996,·30 mins
The 10-day VAT strike collapses in Uganda
08 Oct 1996,·30 mins
The World Bank and the IMF agree an African debt relief package
01 Oct 1996,·29 mins
Bauxite mining in Sierra Leone suffers a major setback
24 Sep 1996,·29 mins
How the Somali economy grew without a central government
17 Sep 1996,·29 mins
Corruption exposed in Benin's cotton industry
10 Sep 1996,·29 mins
The winner of the African Finance Minister for a competition year is announced
03 Sep 1996,·29 mins
Bodies pile up in the morgues as 60,000 civil servants go on strike in Zimbabwe
27 Aug 1996,·29 mins
Equatorial Guinea joins the African Petroleum Producers Association
19 Aug 1996,·29 mins
A report on South Africa's drug vigilantes
13 Aug 1996,·29 mins
The economic crisis in Burundi deepens as sanctions bite
06 Aug 1996,·31 mins
South Africa's clothing industry faces crippling strikes
30 Jul 1996,·30 mins
A new commonwealth, CPLP, is born but African leaders insist on ditching sentimentality
23 Jul 1996,·31 mins
Did President Mandela's visit to London pay for itself?
16 Jul 1996,·30 mins
Zimbabwe does a U-turn on import tariffs following criticism from industry
08 Jul 1996,·29 mins
East Africa moves closer to economic integration with new currency deal
03 Jul 1996,·29 mins
The UN Economic Commission for Africa has declared the continent's economic slump over
25 Jun 1996,·29 mins
Crisis on the African copper markets as a Japanese rouge trader is exposed
18 Jun 1996,·30 mins
De Beers clinches a diamond deal in Angola
11 Jun 1996,·28 mins
Problems at the African Development Bank continue
28 May 1996,·30 mins
South Africa's currency takes a battering
14 May 1996,·29 mins
Investors have gathered to discuss much-needed development to the Maputo corridor
07 May 1996,·30 mins
24 hour strike by South Africa's biggest trad union COSATU; IMF stalemate on how to provide debt relief. Huge sale of Zimbabwe tobacco crop - and is World's largest exporter of tobacco.
30 Apr 1996,·28 mins
Sudan has had to suspend its debt repayments to the IMF
23 Apr 1996,·29 mins
As trade goes global, is Africa getting left out - again
16 Apr 1996,·30 mins
Small business special - a look at enterprise around Africa
09 Apr 1996,·30 mins
A new finance minister for South Africa has caused alarm among investors
02 Apr 1996,·29 mins
