Latest COMESA region news

• Kenya’s Stock Market Ranked Sub-Saharan Africa’s Best Performer in the Past Decade

  16 Jan 2020

  The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) emerged as the best performing stock exchange market in Sub-Sahara Africa in the last decade beating its rivals, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The Nairobi benchmark index went up by 74 per cent in the last ten years, while Johannesburg Stock Exchange index increased by 9 per cent only. In contrast, the Nigerian Stock Market benchmark index declined by about 50 per cent in the period under review.

  
  

• Rwanda registered $2.4bn in investments in 2019

  16 Jan 2020

  Rwanda registered more than $2.46 billion worth of investments in 2019, according to latest figures from Rwanda Development Board’s (RDB) latest figures released Wednesday.