South Africa finds itself in the firing line from US President Trump’s auto tariffs, but the macro impact will be limited and other developments over the past week have been more positive for the country's economic outlook. Elsewhere, improved security since President Tinubu came to power had supported an uptick in Nigeria’s oil production, but a series of attacks and blasts at oil and gas pipelines over the past week or so has heightened fears that those gains could reverse.
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