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Written on February 21st, 2012
Swiss-based energy group Addax & Oryx Group said on Monday it had entered exclusive negotiations with U.S. private equity firm Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) for the possible sale of its African downstream operations. The assets are valued at between $250 million to $500 million.
In 2009, China's Sinopec Group bought the upstream African assets of Addax Petroleum in a $7.2 billion deal, but the trading and downstream assets were not part of the deal.
Written on February 20th, 2012
Abraaj Capital, a leading private equity manager investing in the rapidly growing economies of the Middle East, Turkey, Asia and Africa, today announced the acquisition of Aureos Capital (“Aur ..
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Written on February 10th, 2012
The latest AVCA newsletter highlighting why you should attend the conference, and recent developments at AVCA.
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Written on February 10th, 2012
9th Annual Conference of the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) in Accra, Ghana
Founded in 2002, AVCA is a nonprofit organization founded to promote, develop and stimulate private equity and ..
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Written on February 3rd, 2012
DEG Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbh and CDC group plc, would like to invite interested parties to submit a proposal to manage a mezzanine fund in Sub Saharan Africa. The ..
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Written on December 23rd, 2011
Dear AVCA Members and Friends,
2011 has been a year of tremendous political and economic change particularly across the African continent. Whilst Europe is undergoing an eco ..
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Written on November 23rd, 2011
Published: 17 November 2011 | Close Date: 19 December 2011
Background
infoDev (www.infodev.org), a Global Partnership Program hosted by the World Bank, with support from DANIDA and UKAid is launching ..
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Written on October 24th, 2011
OCTOBER 20, 2011 (Boston, MA and Nairobi, Kenya) – The African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) and Cambridge Associates have agreed to a strategic collaboration to provide extensive, indepe ..
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Written on September 20th, 2011
Nairobi, Kenya (20th September 2011) --The Board of Directors of the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) proudly announce the appointment of Michelle Kathryn Essomé as CEO of AVCA.
Priv ..
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Written on September 8th, 2011
Nouakchott and Dakar (September 7, 2011) -- Deep Drilling Company ("DDC"), the holding company of Drill Corp Sahara S.A. ("DCS"), a Mauritania-based drilling services contractor fo ..
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