The African Economic Conference (AEC) has urged the African countries to use the time in the run-up to March 2019, the deadline for ratification, to strengthen their capacity in the legislative and tariff instruments required for the process and other “low hanging fruit” measures
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Pétro Ivoire secures US$22mn mezzanine funding
Vantage Capital, Africa’s mezzanine fund manager, has announced that it has provided US$22mn of mezzanine funding to Pétro Ivoire, a distributor of oil and gas products in Côte d’Ivoire
ECA invites private sector investors to invest in Africa’s transboundary infrastructure projects
Adeyinka Adeyemi, a senior advisor on regional integration and trade at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), has invited private sector investors to invest in transboundary projects throughout Africa
Mozambique invites South Africa to invest in Cabo Delgado Province
The provincial permanent secretary of Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Province, Antonio Domingos Mapure, has extended an invite to the South African businesses to invest and do business in the province
Response Architects launches Nigeria’s first international teleshopping platform
Response Architects, a multichannel retail business, has announced the launch of Nigeria’s first international teleshopping platform, Shopex TV