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Uganda negotiating $2.3 bln loan with China to fund rail line

KAMPALA (Capital Markets in Africa) – Uganda is negotiating a $2.3 billion loan with China’s Exim Bank to fund an initial 273 km stretch of rail line the east African country is planning to build for faster and cheaper transportation, an official said on Thursday. Landlocked Uganda eventually wants to construct a 1,700 km standard gauge railway network to connect with similar lines being built in neighbouring Kenya. The rail links are expected to help…

Goldman’s Contrarian View on South Africa’s Rand

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – There’s still some momentum left in South African rand’s rally, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The 148-year-old Wall Street lender predicts the currency will extend its 17 percent gain since the beginning of 2016 to end the year at 13 per dollar, a level last seen in 2015. That’s a view shared by only three out of 26 analysts in a Bloomberg survey: the median forecast is for the currency…

Tunisia to start roadshow for 1 bln Eurobond on Feb. 5

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TUNIS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Tunisia will start a road show for a Eurobond worth one billion euros on Feb. 5 with pricing set for Feb. 14 at 5-6 percent, a government source told Reuters on Thursday. Tunisia had announced in late November plans to issue a Eurobond worth 1 billion euros as it seeks funding to cover its deficit after the economy was hard hit following militant attacks against its tourism industry. Since…

Tanzania receives $305 million World Bank loan for Dar es Salaam port expansion

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DAR ES SALAAM (Capital Markets in Africa) – Tanzania will receive a $305 million loan from the World Bank to expand its main port in its main commercial city Dar es Salaam, where congestion and inefficiencies are hampering ambitions to transform the east African nation into a regional transport hub. The port, whose main rival is the bigger but also congested port of Mombasa in Kenya, acts as a trade gateway for landlocked African states…

Nigeria’s woes won’t deter investors from buying dollar bonds

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Investors are lining up to buy dollar bonds Nigeria is expected to issue soon despite the country’s first recession in a quarter of a century, a currency crisis and budget shortfalls driven by low oil prices. On the face of it, the $1 billion of bonds Nigeria hopes to sell by the end of March might seem unattractive, especially at a time sentiment towards African debt has soured after…

Home-grown African wealth funds seeking foreign partners to fix infrastructure gap

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Africa, famously short of new roads, ports and power stations, is increasingly leaning on its own sovereign investment funds to help fix its infrastructure gap. The funds – which have around $150 billion between them, according to research firm Preqin – are digging in themselves and offering co-investment opportunities and guarantees to attract foreign capital. The scale of the problem is huge – some 600 million Africans, or half the…

Tanzania Telecom Talking to Banks on $300 Million Expansion

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DAR Es Salam (Capital Markets in Africa) – Tanzania Telecommunications Co., the state-owned phone company, said it’s in talks with banks to raise funds for a $300 million expansion program to take on larger rivals including Vodacom Tanzania Ltd. An unspecified amount of funding has already been secured from the state-owned TIB Development Bank for the five-year strategy, acting Chief Executive Officer Waziri Kindamba said in an interview Tuesday in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. The company,…

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