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PIDG company The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund backs 40MW Kesses solar project in Kenya with US$35 million loan

EAIF has now supported green electricity generation in nine countries

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), which is part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) (www.PIDG.org), confirmed its leading position as a provider of debt funding to Africa’s alternative energy generation sector. EAIF has provided a US$35 million loan over a 15-year term to the 40MW Kesses solar generation…

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PIDG company, Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund, lending €25 million to Côte d’Ivoire clean energy hydro-electricity project

The new plant will be an important strategic economic asset for Côte d’Ivoire

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) (www.PIDG.org) company, is lending €25 million over 18 years to Ivoire Hydro Energy (IHE) which will build a 44MW hydro electricity generation plant on the Bandama River near the village of Singrobo in Côte d’Ivoire. Financial close is expected in…

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Private Infrastructure Development Group’s (PIDG) company Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund’s 2020 review shows loan book topped US$1 billion for the first time

19% year-on-year committed loan portfolio growth

8 projects with an EAIF loan commitment value of USD 243m; 19% year-on-year committed loan portfolio growth; Local capital markets strengthened with EAIF anchor support for two local currency bond issues; Zimbabwe becomes 18th African country in current portfolio. The Private Infrastructure Development Group’s (PIDG) (www.PIDG.org) long-term infrastructure debt business, the Emerging Africa…

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First green energy project in Burkina Faso for Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund

Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) lends €29 million to support construction of 30MW solar plant to supply national grid; 20th clean energy project for EAIF

The West African country of Burkina Faso is to get a new large-scale renewable energy plant, it was announced today, 15th March. Located some 250km south east of the nation’s capital city of Ouagadougou, near the town of Pâ, the new solar energy plant will supply all the electricity it…

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Liquid Telecommunications bond offering is fourth recent digital and telecommunications financing by PIDG company Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund

“Growing Africa’s digital infrastructure is a key foundation stone in recovering the continent from the global economic devastation of Covid,” says EAIF Investment Director

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) (www.PIDG.org) company, has committed to buy up to US$50,000,000 of a bond issue by Liquid Telecommunications, that is being launched on Monday 22nd February 2021. The bond (“The New Note Offering”) aims to raise US$600 million which will be used…

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PIDG company the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund supports local currency bond issue as Senegal’s national port of Dakar begins move to new enterprise zone location

The bond raised over XOF60 billion (US$107million)

2nd Senegal bond this year for EAIF; New deep water port to increase efficiency and reduce city centre congestion; “Green port” strategy includes large scale tree planting programme. Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company (www.PIDG.org), the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) invested XOF* 8.3 billion (cUS$15 million) in a local…