As the close of this week’s trading gets underway, most African bourses on Thursday finished on a positive note, but Kenya and South Africa had a negative change of -0.58% and -0.48% each; Eni makes giant oil (2bn bpd) discovery offshore I/Coast ; Access Bank HY: Profit +42.4% to NGN86.94bn, 30kobo/div.; Hichilema to Creditors: “Bally will pay”; Namibia's Growth in credit extended to businesses rise to 1.8% in July; Afreximbank posts +12% Profit to $168.9mn H1 2021 and more on today's FOB.