Buyout Firm Vital Plans $500 Million Africa Fund as Demand Booms

Buyout Firm Vital Plans $500 Million Africa Fund as Demand Booms

Accra, Ghana (Capital Markets in Africa) — Private Equity firm Vital Capital Investments LP is planning a $500 million investment fund that will focus on African industries overlooked by competitors. Vital Capital Fund II is weighing opportunities in Mozambique, Tanzania, Rwanda, Angola, Ethiopia, Uganda, Cameroon, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, managing partner Eytan Stibbe said in an interview with Bloomberg Brief Sub-Saharan Africa. The firm’s second Africa-focused fund will make as many as 20 investments…

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Cameroon power firm to spend $60 mln on improving supplies in 2015

YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon power company eneo plans to invest 37.5 billion CFA francs ($62 million) in 2015, its general manager said on state radio on Tuesday, as it seeks to improve the reliability of the country’s power supply.The central African oil and cocoa producer suffers from regular blackouts, especially in the dry season as water levels in hydroelectric reservoirs dwindle. Cameroon has vowed to improve electricity supplies as part of a broad economic plan…

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Cameroon to issue up to 55 bln CFA francs in bonds in Q2

YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon will issue up to 55 billion CFA francs ($92 million) in treasury bonds in the second quarter of 2015, state radio quoted on Monday the finance ministry as saying.The central African state said earlier this year it planned to issue nearly three times as much debt this year as in 2014 amid a shortfall in oil revenues due to slumping global crude prices.The ministry said treasury bonds would be issued on…

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SEFA supports 72MW Solar PV power project in Cameroon

SEFA supports 72MW Solar PV power project in Cameroon

The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) approved at the end of 2014 a USD 777,000 preparation grant for JCM Greenquest Solar Corporation to support the development of a 72 MW Solar Photovoltaic (PV) power plant as the first renewable energy Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Cameroon. The SEFA grant will finance environmental and social impact assessments and the cost related to the technical, legal and financial advisory services. Despite Cameroon’s abundant resource potential and…

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