Finance | - Part 80

CDC Made Wrong Call on Investment in Kenyan Cement Maker ARM

NAIROBI (Capital Markets in Africa) – CDC Group Plc misjudged the potential of Kenyan cement maker ARM Cement Plc when agreeing to invest $140 million almost three years ago, and is banking on the prospect of an acceptable buyout offer in a forthcoming auction. The U.K. investment firm allocated over half of its Kenyan portfolio to ARM to back an expansion into Tanzania and the development of a potential East African regional champion, Chief Executive Officer Nick…

Nigeria Leads Effort for $9 Billion African Energy Plan

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Nigeria is leading a continent-wide drive to raise as much as $9 billion to help African nations fund projects including oil exploration, refineries and pipelines, the country’s oil minister said. Africa’s largest oil producer is working with more than a dozen other nations grouped under the African Petroleum Producers Organization, or APPO, to raise $1 billion in start-up funding for the African Energy Investment Corp., Minister of State for Petroleum…

Gemfields Reaches Settlement Over Mozambique Rights Abuse Case

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MAPUTO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Gemfields Group Ltd., the owner of colored gemstone mines and maker of Faberge jewelry, has agreed to a 5.8 million pound ($7.6 million) settlement with a group of Mozambicans who said they suffered rights abuses around the company’s ruby mine in the north of the country. London-based law company Leigh Day last year brought a claim on behalf of the 273 people who lived near the Montepuez Ruby Mining…

Côte d’Ivoire’s SIR financing highlights innovations in Africa’s debt markets

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ABIDJAN (Capital Markets in Africa) – Côte d’Ivoire’s Société Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR), West Africa’s largest oil refinery, has secured a €577mn debt financing which will help it repay historical obligations on crude supply and reduce the interest rate of its stock of debt. The facility will also enable SIR to upgrade its plant and align it to international environmental emissions standards, with a view to business expansion. In recent years, Côte d’Ivoire has put…

South Africa $12 Billion Fee Plan to Pressure Budget, WB Says

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – South Africa’s plan to spend more subsidizing higher education is fiscally unsustainable and is unlikely to supply more skills to the economy, the World Bank said. The cost of post-school education and training will more than double to 172.2 billion rand ($12 billion) by 2022, or 2.5 percent of gross domestic product, from 65.4 billion rand in 2017, the Washington-based lender said in an economic update on the country…

Africa’s Biggest Fund Manager Suspends Key Officials

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – South Africa’s Public Investment Corp., the continent’s biggest money manager, said it has suspended two employees after an investigation into a transaction with Ayo Technology Solutions Ltd. The PIC suspended Fidelis Madavo, the head of listed investments, and Victor Seanie, an assistant portfolio manager, the Pretoria-based fund manager said in a statement. Madavo gave evidence Tuesday before a commission that’s probing allegations of impropriety at the institution, saying there was…

Hudbay Investor Seeks to Replace CEO and Most of its Board

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Hudbay Minerals Inc.’s second-largest investor is seeking to oust the Toronto miner’s chief executive officer and replace most of its board. Waterton Global Resource Management will nominate eight new directors at Hudbay’s upcoming annual meeting with a slate that includes former mining executive Peter Kukielski and financial services industry veteran Richard Nesbitt, according to a letter to shareholders Wednesday. Waterton, which owns about 12 percent of Hudbay, will propose that Kukielski be named…

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