• South African business confidence rises to highest in 8 months
• Zimbabwean ministers postpone meeting on Zimplats stake
• West African Union to grow slower than forecast on poor crop
• ASI +46bps, $11.54mill
• Gunmen kill seven in Nigeria’s Northeast, attack police
• NSE20 +50bps, $3.3mill
• Kenya average benchmark coffee price rose 1.1% at auction
• Equity Bank is reporting Full Year 2011 results this morning
• DCI -2bps, $22k
• EGX30 +43bps, $140mill
• Semdex -5bps, $493k
• Top40 +71bps, $1.39bn
• LuSE -6bps, $1.54mill
• Ind -19bps, Mining -143bps, $1.9mill