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LAFARGE TO MERGE AFRICAN UNITS IN $1.35 BLN DEAL

French cement maker Lafarge will combine its South Africa business with publicly traded Nigerian unit Lafarge Wapco, its country CEO said. Guillaume Roux said the deal, worth 1.35 billion dollars, will see the Lafarge group get 200 million dollars in cash and 1.4 billion new shares in Lafarge Wapco to effect the merger. The new company, Lafarge Africa Plc, will have a market capitalisation of more than three billion dollars and will be.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 29th December 2014

Ghana devises plan to curb power crisis

GHANA is making frantic efforts to finance a plan aimed at paying for gas supplied to the Volta River Authority (VRA) and the power producers in the event of a cash fall, local daily newspaper reported. This is part of plans to avert rising power crisis. According to the publication, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) is working on a fall-back financing plan widely believed to boost the production of gas in the country. GNPC.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 29th December 2014

Uganda s oil refinery project good for East Africa

UGANDA'S progress in transforming the oil assets and the plan to build refinery project has attracted criticism, skepticism and resistance, a challenge that will test government’s stamina to make independent decision for the benefit of its citizens.This is after protracted efforts to search for oil and gas in the Lake Albert basin confirmed 2.5 billion barrel of crude oil in reserves meaning that at least one billion barrels oil.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 29th December 2014

Somalia exploration positions East Africa as the new oil and gas frontier

East Africa has been emerging as a major new frontier in the oil and gas industry for some time, and the latest news that Somalia has opened itself up to exploration is a further sign that the region is aware of the limitless potential that its oil and gas reserves present. The world's oil and gas industry has been keeping increasingly close tabs on East Africa as a slew of new projects have sprung up, with gas reserves being.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 29th December 2014

INDIAN EXPORTERS -NEW STRATEGY TO TAP THE EAST AFRICAN MARKET

It is high time Indian exporters and investors turned their attention to the five countries in the East African Community, which is surging ahead with reforms and has become the second fastest economic bloc in the world The realisation of a large regional economic bloc with a combined population of more than 141.1 million people, land area of 1.82 million sq.km and a combined Gross Domestic Product of $99.8 billion, bears great strategic.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 29th December 2014

Africa To Be A Major Market To Help Achieve the 2 Billion Target

The company aims to add 1 billion new customers by 2020, so as to double its existing user base. The majority of the growth is expected to come from emerging nations like Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We believe Africa will play a pivotal role in L’Oreal’s expansion plan. The Middle East and Africa segment is the fastest growing geographical segment for L’Oreal (approximately 15% year on year). In 2013,.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 29th December 2014

DUBAI'S COMPANY BUYING $300 MLN STAKE IN AFRICAN INDUSTRY

Investment Corp of Dubai has agreed to buy a 300 million dollar stake in Dangote Cement. The state fund, Investment Corp of Dubai (ICD), which holds stakes in some of the emirate's top firms, has agreed to buy the stake in top Nigerian cement producer, a spokesman for Dangote said on Monday. Carl Franklin, Dangote's head of investor relations, did not give further details. Dangote's current market capitalisation is about 23.7 billion US.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 29th December 2014

East Africa speeds up energy projects

East African governments have doubled their efforts to increase energy output, with several multi-million dollar projects on the cards. The aim is to meet rising demand as well as attract more investments, after the 2014 World Bank Ease of Doing Business report noted that low energy output remains a hurdle for investors. In the past two months, Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya have announced a number of power upgrade projects. Rwanda recently.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 29th December 2014

Kenya: Africa s largest wind power project achieves full financial close

Following the financial close of Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (LTWP), the first disbursement of funds pursuant to the financing agreements signed in March 2014 has been received. The Sh70 billion project is the largest single wind power project to be constructed in Africa and is to date, the largest private investment in the history of Kenya and the most complex and challenging project financing undertaken in the renewable energy space in.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 29th December 2014

NEW SOLAR POWER PLANT TO COME UP IN UGANDA

Uganda announced that our foreign and domestic firms would build two solar power plants, with a total capacity of 20 megawatts (MW) as it seeks to develop its renewable energy potential. Keen on expanding its capacity to support an industrialization drive, the east African country is currently pursuing several multi-billion-dollar projects. Officials previously said the government was also looking for investors to develop solar energy and.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 29th December 2014

SolarCity invests US$16 million for off-grid solar power plant in Africa

US installer SolarCity is among the investors in a US$16 million funding round closed this week by Off Grid Electric, a company offering pre-paid solar systems in Africa. Apart from SolarCity, infrastructure fund manager, Zouk Capital and Vulcan Capital, the private investment firm of Microsoft co-Founder Paul Allen, led this second round of investment funding for Off Grid Electric. The first round last year, raised US$7 million..... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 29th December 2014

AFRICA STRENGTHENS TIES WITH CHINA

Africa’s Transnet and Chinese manufacturer CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive (CSR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This was part of South African president Jacob Zuma’s state visit to assist trade between the two countries. “Today’s MoU paves the way for Transnet to conclude agreements with CSR to set up manufacturing facilities in South Africa to exploit opportunities for the production and maintenance.... Read more »

Posted on : Saturday , 27th December 2014

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