Egyptian companies were, collectively, the belle of the ball at the EFG Hermes One on One in Dubai last week, attracting the lion’s share of investor interest at the world’s premier emerging and frontier markets conference
Clean Energy Pipeline caught up with Bakr Abdel-Wahab, Head of Energy at EFG Hermes Private Equity, to discuss the investment bank’s clean energy plans for the year, business strategy, new markets to have caught its eye, and its UK solar holdings. Since joining EFG Hermes in 2010, Abdel-Wahab has helped spearhead some of the […]
With a population in excess of 100 million citizens, Egypt has a working age population of around 60 million — and a poverty rate that clocks in at nearly 28%, according to official figures. While unemployment has been stubbornly high, early sprouts of economic recovery after the November 2016 float of the Egyptian pound have seen […]
Nairobi Securities Exchange will withstand political shock and emerge stronger, NSE chief executive Geoffrey Odundo has said. He noted that the ongoing political standoff had impacted negatively on the performance of Kenya’s stock market but reiterated Kenya’s stock market resilience and its ability to recover much faster from such shocks. “We’re hopeful that our own […]