Coca-Cola is gearing up for a potential IPO of its African bottling business as soon as next year after previously putting the plans on hold trib.al/wMEWKk9

NEW: Must-read investigation about how a tiny Swiss company called 5C Energy run by a Belgian diamond trader helped the Congolese government raise taxes on telecom operators by millions of $ -- for a hefty fee.

by Loni Prinsloo

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A high-stakes standoff between Congo and the country’s biggest telecom operators ended with the companies paying an extra $5.8 million a month to the government trib.al/NkiwP2g

Africa’s biggest wireless carrier, MTN, has opened a research lab with Huawei in Johannesburg, deepening ties with the Chinese company and potentially accelerating the roll out of new technologies on the continent trib.al/pLEVXav

Africa’s biggest wireless carrier, MTN, has opened a research lab with Huawei in Johannesburg, deepening ties with the Chinese company and potentially accelerating the roll out of new technologies on the continent trib.al/TcrW4oM

Daybreak Farms, a chicken company controlled by Africa’s biggest fund manager, plans to seek loans to stabilize operations and fix its balance sheet following years of mismanagement trib.al/yAZ9eqi

Exclusive : bi African media deal coming up - African Billionaire Motsepe could get I'm on the action with the French

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Africa's biggest wireless carrier MTN has increased its fintech transactions and now has 72.5 million active users of its mobile-money services, known as MoMo trib.al/Foh196D

Bloomberg Bike Take:

Big African Banking Deal :

Damage to four subsea cables off the coast of west Africa has forced service providers to send internet traffic on a winding detour around the world bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Internet service providers have been forced to find scenic routes for their traffic (including sending it back and forth across the Atlantic) to bypass 4 subsea cables that were damaged off the west coast of Africa.

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Former Credit Suisse Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam signaled his intention to run for president of Ivory Coast in October next year. trib.al/DnVSFl2

Vodacom and former employee Kenneth Makate plan to enter private talks to discuss his compensation for a popular call-back phone service he proposed more than two decades ago, hoping to reach an out-of-court settlement trib.al/mb8NPVL

Naspers-backed Planet42 raised local-currency debt and equity funding from Standard Ban to help the South Africa-focused rent-to-buy startup repay costly euro-denominated loans trib.al/vFYzubE

The Vaal Triangle in South Africa is the most polluted place on Earth — and 1.7 million people call it home.

Antony Sguazzin has more from the region trib.al/A8yVDhj

Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s son has entered the political fray trib.al/tRYCA7L

Cash-strapped Ghana could jeopardize $3.8 billion of World Bank funding if an anti-LGBTQ bill passed last week is signed into law, according to documents seen by Bloomberg trib.al/07O9RP1

Springboks says private equity deal to fuel sponsorship boom #MoneywebNews moneyweb.co.za/news/south-afr… via Moneyweb News Loni Prinsloo