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2. What's
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now holds in Payment24?
3. How much is A.P. Moller planning to invest in Kenyan power assets?
4. Who will represent SPE Capital on Saham Pharma's board?
5. What amounts are FMO and AfDB committing to the funds they're backing?
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Private Equity
SPE Capital buys pharma business from Saham Group
SPE Capital Partners is buying Saham Group's Morocco-based pharmaceutical business in a deal alongside Proparco, the French development finance institution...
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SPE Capital's deal for Saham Pharma is the fourth for its $200 million Africa-focused PE fund
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Private Equity Infrastructure
A.P. Moller Capital's deal for IberAfrica completes
A.P. Moller Capital's first deal in Kenya has now reached completion, adding IberAfrica Power, a thermal power operator in Nairobi to the portfolio of A.P. Moller's...
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Growth Capital
Payment24 sells significant stake to Standard Bank
South Africa's Payment24 has sold a significant stake to one of its business partners, Standard Bank. The deal gives Africa's largest banking group a...
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Venture Capital
GreenTec invests in Kenyan logistics startup
GreenTec Capital Partners announced its latest investment last week, backing a Kenyan mobile and web-based trucking logistics platform.
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Fund & Fundraising News...
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Private Equity
DPI adds FMO to LP roster for Fund III
Development Partners International is adding another European development finance institution to the roster of LPs to the private equity firm's third fund....
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Private Equity
AfDB backs planned $100mln healthcare fund
The African Development Bank announced last week that it had signed off on a commitment to a planned $100 million healthcare fund at the end of February...
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Projects & Portfolio Company News...
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ICT Infrastructure
Convergence rolls up and rebrands SynCom businesses
Convergence Partners has bundled up the portfolio companies held by Synergy Communications, its investment platform of enterprise-facing broadband businesses...
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ESG
ESG and Africa's Unlisted Companies: Human Rights Reporting insights
In the fourth of several excerpts from the just-published Impact Africa report, a look at a framework companies can adopt to more successfully operationalise the UN Guiding Principles into their business operations
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Written by Richard Karmel, managing partner of Mazars' London office and the co-author of the UNGP Reporting Framework and Assurance Guidance
Read more...
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Companies, People & Profiles...
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People
TPG Growth taps Rise Fund CIO as co-managing partner
TPG has promoted the Chief Investment Officer of the alternative investment firm's impact fund to be the Co-Managing Partner of TPG Growth..
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People
Arav tapped to lead LHGP-managed FEI
Orli Arav has joined Lions Head Global Partners to lead the Facility for Energy Inclusion, a debt fund focused on backing Independent Power Producers developing...
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People
Eskom executive to head DBSA's IPP Office
The Development Bank of Southern Africa has announced the appointment of a senior Eskom executive as the Head of the institution's Independent Power Producers Office...
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Senior Investment Associate at Centum
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Based in Nairobi, Kenya
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Senior Investment Officer at IFC
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Based in Nairobi, Kenya
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Investment Officer at IFC
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Based in Nairobi, Kenya
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Investment Associate, Catalyst Funds at CDC
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Based in London, UK
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Investment Funds Attorney at Development Finance Corporation
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Based in Washington, DC, United States
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Funds Portfolio Analyst at Development Finance Corporation
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Based in Washington, DC, United States
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Nairobi, Kenya, August 27th to August 28th, 2020
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Nairobi, Kenya, June 24th to June 25th, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain, June 30th to July 3rd, 2020
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Johannesburg, South Africa, September 7th to September 11th, 2020
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Paris, France, September 22nd to September 23rd, 2020
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