•  Zimbabwe seeks help from China to develop platinum refinery  
•  Mozambique hopes peaceful election will bolster tourism industry  
•  Zambia targets growth rebound after farm output lowers 2013 rate  
•  Zambia president fires deputy home affairs minister Kansembe
•  ASI -1.65%, $11.35mill 
•  From bad to worse yesterday as liquidity all but dried up 
•  Banks (-2.71%) and Consumers (-1.11%) both came under pressure
•  NSE20 +0.50%, $6.4mill 
•  Foreign demand in Safcom drove activity
• DCI -56bps, $136k
• EGX30 +53bps, $201mill
• Semdex -24bps, $879k
• Top40 -93bps, $1.51bn
• Ind +5bps, mining unch, $800k
| Country | Notation | Currency | YTD % | 
| South Africa | ZAR | 10.75 | -2.43 | 
| Nigeria | NGN | 164.65 | -2.64 | 
| Kenya | KES | 86.48 | -0.21 | 
| Mauritius | MUR | 29.85 | +0.67 | 
| Botswana | BWP | 8.82 | -0.79 | 
| Tanzania | TZS | 1630.00 | -2.45 | 
| Uganda | UGX | 2516.13 | +0.43 | 
| Rwanda | RWF | 682.57 | -0.96 | 
| Ghana | GHS | 2.67 | -11.05 | 
| BRVM | XOF | 473.76 | +1.35 | 
| Egypt | EGP | 6.96 | -0.18 | 
| Morocco | MAD | 8.08 | +1.13 | 
| Tunisia | TND | 1.57 | +4.78 |