• Zambia raises benchmark interest rate to record high of 12% in efforts to stem currency weakness and contain inflation
•  ASI +38bps, $25.34m 
•  Consumers (+61bps) drove both the direction and turnover with Guinness (+5%) and Nestle (+2.44%) the leading lights. Banks lost -1.92% although mostly on back of GTB (-5.62%) as the stock went ex-div
•  NSE20 +28bps, $10.3m 
•  Foreign trading in EABL dominating the day
• DCI +3bps, $4.82m
• Closed
• Semdex +29bps, $10.75m
• Ind +70bps, Mining unch, $404k
| Country | Notation | Currency | YTD % | 
| South Africa | ZAR | 10.58 | -0.96 | 
| Nigeria | NGN | 164.95 | -2.82 | 
| Kenya | KES | 86.62 | -0.37 | 
| Mauritius | MUR | 30.10 | -0.17 | 
| Botswana | BWP | 8.78 | -0.48 | 
| Tanzania | TZS | 1636.00 | -2.81 | 
| Uganda | TZSUGX | 2550.00 | -0.90 | 
| Rwanda | RWF | 681.51 | -0.24 | 
| Ghana | GHS | 2.69 | -11.75 | 
| BRVM | XOF | 479.54 | +0.14 | 
| Egypt | EGP | 6.96 | -0.28 | 
| Morocco | MAD | 8.16 | +0.33 | 
| Tunisia | TND | 1.59 | +3.99 |