Ethiopia plans more bonds for $4.7bn hydropower dam
Ethiopia has raised Birr 7 billion ($408 million) of debt to finance the $4.8 bn Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River, and ...
Ethiopia has raised Birr 7 billion ($408 million) of debt to finance the $4.8 bn Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River, and ...
FT Tilt highlights a swift move by state-backed Chinese company Minmetals Resources (MMR) to acquire upstream mining assets, offering $1.25bn for Toronto-listed Anvil Mining. It ...
Mark Voss of fund manager Silk Invest foresees a turning point for the Egyptian market in a recent note. He also notes growth in Tunisia, ...
Competitive African bank leaders are seizing opportunities of new technology to reach 250m unbanked families. Conference on emerging markets technology innovation and banking coming up ...
Interest in share offers is high on the Rwanda Stock Exchange, after shares of Bank of Kigali (BK) rose 52% to RWF190 in their first ...
A company has been engaged to switch the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange to electronic trading and Cabinet has discussed this and setting up a Central Securities ...
Fund-raising for sub-Saharan African private equity funds was $1.056 billion in January to June 2011, down 5% from $1.11 bn in the first half of ...
Kenyan financial services firm British-American Investments Company Ltd. said on 23 August that its initial public offering (IPO) had only attracted 60.09% of the targeted ...
Morocco’s Casablanca Stock Exchange is offering grants to small and medium enterprises to encourage them to raise capital. The first listing of 2011 was 8.7x ...
Tiny, small and medium businesses in Egypt and Tunisia, later Algeria and Morocco, are set to benefit from a new €30 million ($43.2 mn) SANAD ...
The Bourse des Valeurs Mobilières de Tunis (BVMT - Tunis Stock Exchange), aims to support role in faster economic growth and has a 5-point development ...
The Dar Es Salaam Stock Exchange aims to increase to 18 listed companies and is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) for Precision Air ...
South Africa's E. Oppenheimer family and Singapore’s sovereign fund Temasek Holdings have set up a $300 million private equity fund called Tana Africa Capital to ...
South Africa’s JSE Ltd reported a 22% increase in net profit after tax to R253.8 million for the 6 months to June, driven by a ...
Leading emerging markets investment bank Renaissance Capital has appointed Yvonne Ike as its Chief Executive Officer, West Africa. She will be based in Lagos.
Somaliland media sources and other rumours have suggested (12 Aug) that a deal on Somaliland’s Berbera port is imminent with China and Ethiopia.
Ethiopia’s Privatization and Public Enterprises Supervising Agency (PPESA) has privatised 287 enterprises since 1995, and plans to sell 18 companies in direct sales and 5 ...
South Africa’s Government has released the Financial Markets Bill for public comment, with comments due by 5 September. The new law would replace the Securities ...
South Africa’s Johannesburg Stock Exchange says that a record number of trades were executed on the exchange today (10 August). The new record is 230,797 ...
Nigerian regulator, the Securities & Exchange Commission, is travelling the country to build education and awareness. SEC Director General Arunma Oteh, SEC Commissioners and senior ...