Power, protest and poultry: Africa's top business news
STORY: Here are five business stories making headlines in sub-Saharan Africa this week.
South Africa's rand weakened in early trading on Friday (July 1), a day after hitting a 20-month low on the back of extended power cuts by struggling state utility Eskom, and fears over the risk of a global recession.
On Friday morning the rand was trading at 16.375 against the dollar.
De Beers Group and Botswana's government will extend an agreement for the sale of rough diamonds from their Debswana joint venture by a year, De Beers said on Wednesday (June 29).
The 2011 rough diamond sales agreement, in which the venture sells 75% of its output to De Beers, had been set to expire in 2020 but was extended until last December, and then again by another six months.
Hundreds of Ghanaians took to the streets on Tuesday (June 28) and Wednesday to protest over spiraling inflation and other economic woes.
Year-on-year inflation hit a new record of 27.6% in May, while a tax on electronic payments - presented as a solution to the financial problems - has been ill-received.
Nigeria spent $3 billion on fuel subsidies in the first five months of this year, a document from state oil firm NNPC has shown.
The government pays to keep Nigeria's pump prices - among the lowest in the world - fixed despite rising global oil prices.
The subsidy has seen the country raise its deficit forecast twice this year and increase borrowing.
And finally, Guinea has culled around 200,000 poultry at risk of being contaminated with bird flu, the minister of agriculture has said.
On June 7 the West African country reported its first six outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, in which over 120,000 birds have died.
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