Finance | - Part 139

Botswana gets offer for struggling BCL mines

GABORONE (Capital Markets in Africa) – Botswana’s high court agreed on Tuesday to delay the provisional liquidation of state-owned BCL Mine Ltd after lawyers representing the liquidator KPMG said they had received an offer to buy its mothballed mines, which produce copper and nickel. While the lawyers declined to name the company making the offer, a source close to the process told Reuters a company from the United Arab Emirates had put forward an offer…

Ghana Will Meet IMF Bailout Benchmarks, Says Finance Minister

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ACCRA (Capital Markets in Africa) – Ghana remains committed to its three-year bailout plan with the International Monetary Fund and will take steps to achieve the program’s benchmarks if it allows the country an opportunity to address economic “predicaments” by creating jobs. The IMF program remains necessary to achieve fiscal consolidation “though it is presently in a delicate state,” Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. Ghana’s total public debt stood at 71.9 percent…

IsDB pledges to support the growth of private sector in Guinea

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Conakry (Capital Markets in Africa) – The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has pledged to support the growth of the private sector in the Republic of Guinea. The statement was made by the IsDB Vice President (Sector Operations), Dr. Mansur Muhtar at the opening ceremony of the Private Sector Forum jointly organized by the Government of Guinea and IsDB Group. The Prime Minister of Guinea, Mr. Mamady Youla chaired the Forum in the capital Conakry. The…

AfDB says gives Comoros $20 mln for road network

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NAIROBI (Reuters) – The African Development Bank is giving Comoros a $20.4 million grant to help it improve and expand its road networks, a move that will boost its agriculture and tourism sectors. The islands have few natural resources and largely rely on exports such as cloves and vanilla, remittances from citizens working abroad and foreign aid to finance development projects. AfDB said the money will be disbursed over five years. “The project will focus…

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

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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…

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…

Vodacom Said to Mull Sale of Shareholding to Black Investors

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Vodafone Group Plc’s publicly traded South African unit is considering the sale of a 15 billion rand ($1.1 billion) stake in what would be one of the country’s biggest ever deals aimed at boosting black participation in the economy, according to two people familiar with the matter. Vodacom Group Ltd. plans to buy back part of the 12.47 percent stake owned by government-pension fund manager the Public Investment Corp., said…

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