Climate protection in some countries is improving. But the world's 61 biggest emitters are failing to take action needed to stick to 1.5 degrees Celcius warming, according to the latest Climate Change Performance Index.

A new pharmaceutical company ranking has said the industry is slowly improving access to medicine in low and middle-income countries. But it only mobilized on COVID once the pandemic became a threat to rich countries.

Hungarian news portal Index has been the country's most widely read outlet for years. Now staff are sounding the alarm that Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government is plotting the end of their editorial independence.

Trading activities at Nigeria’s equities market wraps this week on a bearish note led by losses in the banking index. For a review of this week’s trading session on the local bourse, Andrew Tsaku, Trader at Kapital Care Trust joins CNBC Africa for more.

BRVM Composite Index is down 8.4 per cent year-to-date in the first half of the year. Myriam Ouattara, Portfolio Manager at EDC Asset Management joins CNBC Africa for more.

Ghana’s Composite Index was down 6.9 per cent in the first half of the year, while the Financial Stock index was also down by 2.9 per cent. Emmanuel Zewu, Vice President for the Economic Research and Policy Analysis Unit at New Era Africa joins CNBC Africa for more.

Nigeria’s headline Purchasing Managers Index for the month of May came in at 52.9 points below the previous month's reading of 55.5 although the rate of output price inflation softened in the period. This is according to Stanbic IBTC's PMI report. Gbolahan Taiwo, Regional Economist for West Africa at Stanbic IBTC joins CNBC Africa for this discussion.

The FBN Purchasing Manager’s Index for July shows a small improvement from June. The headline figure improved from 55.9 in June to 56.3 in July.

Recent gains made on Nigeria’s Stock Exchange are under pressure from profit taking on the index.

The NSE All Share Index fell 0.77 per cent on Wednesday as Dangote Cement dragged down the broader index. But can a slew of positive earnings lift the bourse today?

After a flat close on Tuesday, The NSE All Share Index closed negative yesterday.