NAIROBI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - The following company
announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency
market moves and political events may affect African markets on
Monday.
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GLOBAL MARKETS
Asian shares reversed earlier losses on Monday and moved back
toward a three-week top as Chinese efforts to cushion the blow
from a coronavirus outbreak cheered investors, although
Japanese stocks faltered amid growing recession
risks. MKTS/GLOB
WORLD OIL PRICES
Oil prices edged lower on Monday as investors brace for
economic data in Asia due this week that should give a reading
on how China's coronavirus epidemic has affected oil
demand. O/R
EMERGING MARKETS
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SOUTH AFRICA MARKETS
South Africa's rand firmed on Friday after President Cyril
Ramaphosa set out brief plans to stimulate economic growth
during his state of the nation address, although his speech
was short on specifics and timeframes. MARKETS
The Kenyan shilling KES= held steady on Friday with inflows
from offshore investors buying government bonds meeting dollar
demand from importers, traders said. POLITICS
Burundi's opposition CNL on Sunday picked the current chairman
of the National Assembly as its candidate in the presidential
election in May which the United Nations says is likely to be
marred by violence. SUDAN POLITICS
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said on Saturday he was
cutting the number of states from 32 to 10, unlocking a
stalled peace deal and paving the way for the formation of a
long- awaited unity government. OIL
A Nigerian oil reform two decades in the making is urgently
needed to get money into its energy sector, industry
executives say, as tax increases and regulatory uncertainty
scupper investments. HEALTH
Kenya won praise from international lenders in 2015 for
launching Africa's biggest public-private healthcare
programme, an unprecedented seven-year scheme to spend
hundreds of millions of dollars leasing medical equipment from
foreign firms. But five years on, high tech machines are lying
idle in more than a third of the hospitals that received them,
according to data from the Ministry of Health and the doctors'
union. POLITICS
Ethiopia's election board on Friday set a date of Aug. 29 for
parliamentary elections that will be a first test of voter
support for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who has eased political
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