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  • Tunisia returned to euros for the first time since 2005 on Friday but the €800m deal was by no means a blow out and the leads were unable to move pricing as the borrower made a play for new investors.
  • Tunisia has set the yield on its seven year euro bond issue on Friday morning at 5.75%, unchanged from initial price thoughts.
  • Despite lingering concerns about its foreign exchange rate regime, Nigeria’s return to the bond market drew an impressive $7.8bn book. So insatiable was demand that the deal dragged the whole sub-Saharan Africa market tighter in secondaries paving the way for some much missed supply from the sector, writes Virginia Furness.
  • International banks want quick answers from the Kenyan government on the status of its loan from Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (PTA Bank), which has threatened their bigger syndication for the sovereign just as the mandate is being finalised.
  • Nigeria’s 15 year bondlooked to be going strongly on Thursday, with investors piling $4.5bn of orders into the book by lunchtime.
  • Tunisia has opted for a two day execution strategy and is collecting indications of interest for its first euro-denominated trade since 2005, with an aim of printing the deal on Friday.