Teeing-off the few final trading days of August, highlighting Tunisia's new "Optiq'' listing trading platform going LIVE today; Nairobi bourse's poor HY1 earnings of -30% in PAT; Stanbic Bank Zim strong HY1 earnings; Bamburi Cement and Jubilee Ins results; new CEO at LafargeHolcim Morocco; UACN buying Tiger Brands minority shares in NGR; Senegal imposing new 3% tax on imports outside ECOWAS, UEMOA; AfDB sees restart of Moz. TotalEnergies LNG in 18mths; Orascom Construction posts $43.4mn profit at HY1 and lots more