• Vodacom ordered to pay former consultant $21mill after losing appeal in Congo
• Impala Platinum submits plan to Zimbabwe indigenisation laws for Zimplats that meets government requirements
• ASI +20bps, $34.78mill. Consumers again active as Nestle (+4.98%), NB (unch) and Guinness (-4.94%) dominate vols with foreign buying particularly evident
• Nigerian economy expands 7.7% in Q4 as surge in mobile phone users boosts telecoms
• NSE20 -1.20%, $2.17mill
• AccessKenya plans to issue bonus shares in lieu of dividend
• StanChart Kenya says profit growth may quicken as it adds more branches
• DCI -2bps, $581k
• Comp -44bps, BRVM10 -59bps, $524k
• EGX30 -3.27%, $96.5mill
• Semdex +18bps, $400k
• Top40 +78bps, $1.85bn
• LuSE -5bps, $74k
• Ind -43bps, Mining -4.63%, $698k