Kenya to privatise sugar firms to regional African investors

Kenya to  privatise sugar firms to regional African investors

Nairobi, Kenya (Capital Markets in Africa):- Investors across East Africa will own a stake in five Kenya government-owned sugar companies to be privatized over the next 12 months, reports The East African News. The Privatisation Commission announced on Friday, 5 May that the five sugar companies — Nzoia, South Nyanza, Chemelil, Muhoroni and Miwani — will be sold in phases to strategic investors and out grower companies through an initial public offering. Under Kenyan law,…

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AfDB approves US$50mn investment in CEC Africa Investments

AfDB approves US$50mn investment in CEC Africa Investments

Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa):- The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, a USD 50 million investment in CEC Africa Investments Limited, a multinational power company headquartered in Nigeria and Zambia. CEC Africa (CECA) seeks to acquire and develop distribution and transmission assets and complementary greenfield generation projects throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. By investing across the energy value chain (generation, transmission, and distribution), CECA aims to…

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Tanzania signs up for customs deal alongside Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda

Tanzania signs up for customs deal alongside Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Capital Markets in Africa):- Tanzania has joined Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda in fast tracking the movement of goods along the main corridors (Northern and Central) under the customs seals in the COMESA region. This follows the signing of an inter-surety agreement by Tanzania’s National Insurance Corporation (NICT) to join the COMESA Regional Transit Guarantee (RCTG) scheme thereby allowing the country to issue regional customs bond guarantees. The RCTG Scheme is a customs transit…

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Tanzania gets $45 mln World Bank loan to improve mining sector

Tanzania gets $45 mln World Bank loan to improve mining sector

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – The World Bank has approved a $45 million loan for Tanzania, Africa’s fourth-biggest gold producer, to help improve its mining sector especially among small-scale producers. The funds will help to create a viable domestic mining industry in poor, rural areas where unregulated artisanal and small-scale mining takes place, Philippe Dongier, the Bank’s country director for Tanzania, said in a statement. The project will train small-scale miners in jewellery-making and help…

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Investors stake NGN 2tn on Nigerian telecoms sector in four years

Investors stake NGN 2tn on Nigerian telecoms sector in four years

Foreign direct investors have staked USD 10bn (about NGN 2tn) on the Nigerian telecommunications industry in the last four years, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said. The Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah, said this in a presentation he made at a forum with journalists in Abuja on Thursday 07 May 2015. Juwah, who was represented at the forum by the Director of Public Affairs, NCC, Mr. Tony Ojobo, also said that internet…

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Poking the Panda does not serve EAC

Poking the Panda does not serve EAC

The Tanzania government recently revealed that total Chinese investments in the country had surpassed $4 billion. China, the home of the Giant Panda, has indeed become a reliable ally in helping develop  several African countries. True, there maybe one or two differences here and there, especially when it comes to competing with local traders and industrial relations, but on the whole relations have not been too bad. More important, the Chinese continue to be generous…

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BADEA provides financial assistance to BOAD

BADEA provides financial assistance to BOAD

Lome, Togo (Capital Markets in Africa):- Messrs. Christian ADOVELANDE, President of the West African Development Bank (BOAD) and Abdelaziz KHELEF, Director General of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), have signed an agreement under which BADEA has provided to BOAD a credit facility of USD 20 million, or around FCFA 12 billion. These resources will enable BOAD to finance imports of goods from Arab countries by WAEMU member States. “This financial assistance will help…

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