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<p>Africa Investment Forum has turned out not to be just another talk shop, as we have seen major billion dollars’ worth of deal being signed says Toyin Sanni, Group CEO, Emerging Africa Capital. She spoke to CNBC Africa at the Africa Investment Forum 2018</p>
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Investment forum no talk shop as billion dollars’ worth of deals have been signed – Toyin Sanni

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<p>AEnergy a leading independent power producer (IPP) in Angola is set to expand Angola’s generation capacity, starting with the Soyo II Combined Cycle Power Plant. This will add up to 750MW, which is the equivalent power needed to supply more than three million Angolan households; for more CNBC Africa spoke to Ricardo Machado, CEO AEnergy at the Africa Investment Forum 2018.  </p>
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AEnergy set to expand generation capacity in Angola with first IPP

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<p>Africa Investment Forum is the right platform for many business models in Africa, as it will link lenders with entrepreneurs seeking finance says Kunle Elebute, Chairman, KPMG Africa.</p>
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Investment forum ideal platform to link lenders with entrepreneurs seeking finance – KPMG

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<p>At the Africa Investment Forum 2018 held in South Africa CNBC Africa had a conversation with Africa’s heads of states and captains of private sector to discuss governments’ role in facilitating private investments to the continent; the panellist included Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; President Akufo-Addo of Ghana; President Alpha Condé of Guinea and Patrice Motsepe South African billionaire &#038; businessman.<br />
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AIF Debate: Presidential investment chats with Osinbajo, Akufo-Addo, Condé, Motsepe

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<p>At the Africa Investment Forum 2018 held in South Africa CNBC Africa had a conversation with Africa’s heads of states and captains of private sector to discuss governments’ role in facilitating private investments to the continent; the panellist included Philémon Yang, Prime Minister of Cameroon; Édouard Ngirente, Prime Minister of Rwanda; Sahle-Work Zewde, President of Ethiopia and Macky Sall, President of Senegal.<br />
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AIF Debate: Presidential investment chats with P. Yang, É. Ngirente, Sahle-Work Zewde, M. Sall

<p>Africa can look forward to a $28 billion investment bonanza by Friday night, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa promised delegates at the Africa Investment Forum Thursday as he made a rallying call to the economies of the continent. He also admitted that the state coffers of the continent are running short of cash.</p>
<p>Former mining millionaire Ramaphosa &#8211; who took the top job in South Africa in February with a pledge to be the country&#8217;s business president &#8211; spoke as the Africa Investment Forum, the biggest investment gathering the continent has ever seen. It is being led by the African Development Bank with an effort to meld private and state money to de-risk and increase investment.</p>
<p>Ramaphosa told delegates the Africa Investment Forum was expected to raise $28 billion by the end of the week outstripping his own South African conference that raised around $20 billion in investment last month.</p>
<p>&#8220;That figure is phenomenal,&#8221; says Ramaphosa, but he also cautioned: &#8220;We need to resolve problems that keep investors away must deal with policy uncertainty and regulatory uncertainty and strengthen financial institutions.”</p>
<p>Ramaphosa told the gathering that the state coffers of Africa could no longer foot the massive infrastructure bill that the continent faces and runs into &#8211; a shortfall in infrastructure that runs into tens of billions.</p>
<p>&#8220;African governments cannot do this on their own. They need to harness their partners in the private sector.&#8221;</p>
<p>Akinwumi Adesina, the ebullient head of the AfDB, was characteristically upbeat in his address to the conference that was his brainchild.</p>
<p>&#8220;People talk about who will be the next China&#8230;Africa is the next China,&#8221; says Adesina, &#8220;Äfrica is open for business.&#8221;</p>
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A $28 billion bonanza for Africa – SA’s President Ramaphosa

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<p>Just how much does Gauteng stand to gain from the partnerships forged at this year&#8217;s Africa Investment Forum? The MEC of Economic Development, Lebogang Maile, talks tourism and job creation.<br />
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Lebogang Maile on what the Africa Investment Forum brings to Gauteng

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<p>CNBC Africa is joined by a team of expert panellists to discuss Investing in Women for Accelerated Growth at the inaugural Africa Investment Forum 2018 underway in South Africa.<br />
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AIF Debate: Investing in women for accelerated growth

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<p>AfDB and Gauteng government played host to the continents’ first-ever investment market platform -Africa Investment Forum, CNBC Africa brings you some of the highlights from this investment forum.</p>
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Africa Investment Forum 2018: Highlights

<p><strong>JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 7 November, 2018</strong> – The African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina on Tuesday made an impassioned call for investors to join the partnership platform offered by the Africa Investment Forum and “grab the chance to fast track the continent’s investment and development agenda&#8221;.</p>
<p>His message was a clarion call to regional and global investors, financial sector leaders and prominent government officials who filled the Africa Room auditorium of the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, for a plenary session entitled “Delivering As One for Africa,” on the first day of the Forum.</p>
<p>“We must fast track Agenda 2063,” Adesina urged. “To deliver as one. We are impatient to get there,” he added.</p>
<p>The opening plenary featured heads of leading Development Finance Institutions and Forum partners, including Patrick Dlamini, CEO, Development Bank of Southern Africa; Professor Benedict Oramah, President, the Africa Export-Import Bank; Dr. Bandar M. H. Hajjar, President, Islamic Development Bank; Admassu Tadesse, President, Trade and Development Bank; Alain Ebobisse, CEO, Africa 50; Mallam Samaila Zubairu, CEO, Africa Finance Corporation.</p>
<p>The Bank’s partners acknowledged that with all the multilateral institutions in the room they had the capital needed to tilt the investment balance and channel much needed investments into Africa.</p>
<p>Officially kicking off the Forum, Manemolla David Makhura, Premier of Gauteng referred to the Africa Investment Forum as ‘historic and the ‘first of its kind.’  He further indicated that Africa needs to move from poverty to prosperity. ‘We want the 21st to be the African century,’ he told delegates.</p>
<p>The Africa Investment Forum is the first ever transaction-based Forum, “This is not an event. It is a platform where governments, private sector, investors, and project promotors come together. We develop quality bankable projects, de-risk them and actually make sure it happens,” Adesina said.</p>
<p>‘We are committed to fast track development. We know countries do not develop from aid but by the discipline of investment. We require broad-based partnerships and collective effort with the private sector and institutional investors,” Adesina further noted, before commending the leadership of Ghana’s President Nana Akuffo-Addo, also present at the opening ceremony.</p>
<p>Panel  members  shared  their  vision and perspectives  on  investments  in  Africa and stressed the urgent need to transition to a new way of working together. This will take scaling up, speeding up and synergizing.</p>
<p>Panelists acknowledged the critical role of African leaders who set the tone in terms of policy and creating conducive environments for businesses to thrive.</p>
<p>The Africa Investment Forum is part of a much bigger drive by the African Development Bank to tap into the vast pool of global capital to fund its ambitious plan to transform Africa. The Bank estimates the continent needs between US$130 billion and US$170 billion a year to fund its critical development needs. Due to tightening budgets, traditional funding sources such as national governments and development institutions like the African Development Bank alone are unable to meet Africa&#8217;s capital needs.</p>
<p>Global institutional investors and asset owners control US$ 131 trillion Asset Under Management, of which Adesina said, even one percent would be sufficient to close the infrastructure financing gap, estimated at between US$68-US$108 billion.</p>
<p>The Africa Investment Forum runs from 7-9 November, 2018.</p>
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It is time for the continent to ‘Deliver As One For Africa’ when it comes to investment: Adesina

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<p>Wolfgang Schmidt, Federal State Secretary, Germany Ministry of Finance spoke to CNBC Africa about finding investment opportunities on the African continent on the sidelines of the Africa Investment Forum.</p>


Germany reaffirms commitment to Africa’s growth

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<p>Rwanda Development Board has partnered with Africa 50 to develop a special technology hub. For more at the ongoing Africa Investment Forum CNBC Africa spoke to Steve Mutabazi, Chief Investment Strategist, Rwanda Development Board.</p>


Rwanda, Africa 50 enter into agreement to develop a special technology hub

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<p>South Africa’s minister of finance Tito Mboweni spoke to CNBC Africa about the importance of the Africa Investment Forum as driver for channelling infrastructure investment on the continent as well as the need to change the funding models to encourage inclusive growth.</p>


SA finmin Mboweni on infrastructure investment, achieving inclusive growth in Africa

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<p>At the ongoing Africa Investment Forum CNBC Africa spoke with Daphne Mahile Nkosi, chair of Kalagadi Manganese Mine on the challenges of mining in Africa and future plans.</p>


Kalagadi Manganese mine plans to become the largest manganese exporter

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<p>The Chairman of Qala Holdings, Dr. Ahmed Heikal one of Egypt&#8217;s biggest power distributors and generators, spoke to CNBC Africa on the sidelines of the Africa Investment Forum about the need for the right kind of African leaders to stimulate and attract investors in the continent.<br />
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Africa needs the right entrepreneurs to deploy capital – Qala Holdings Chairman

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<p>Samuel Dossou-Aworet, Founder, Petrolin Group spoke to CNBC Africa on the sidelines of the Africa Investment Forum about the need for greater support from African governments in developing entrepreneurs.</p>


Petrolin Group’s Samuel Dossou-Aworet urges African govts to promote entrepreneurship

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<p>At the ongoing Africa Investment Forum underway in South Africa CNBC Africa spoke to Dave Uduanu, CEO, Sigma Pensions about mobilising pension funds for development.</p>


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Investment forum no talk shop as billion dollars’ worth of deals have been signed – Toyin Sanni

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A $28 billion bonanza for Africa – SA’s President Ramaphosa

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Africa Investment Forum 2018: Highlights

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Rwanda, Africa 50 enter into agreement to develop a special technology hub

SA finmin Mboweni on infrastructure investment, achieving inclusive growth in Africa

Kalagadi Manganese mine plans to become the largest manganese exporter

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Africa Investment Forum

Investment forum no talk shop as billion dollars’ worth of deals have been signed – Toyin Sanni

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Investment forum ideal platform to link lenders with entrepreneurs seeking finance – KPMG

AIF Debate: Presidential investment chats with Osinbajo, Akufo-Addo, Condé, Motsepe

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Lebogang Maile on what the Africa Investment Forum brings to Gauteng

AIF Debate: Investing in women for accelerated growth

Africa Investment Forum 2018: Highlights

It is time for the continent to ‘Deliver As One For Africa’ when it comes to investment: Adesina

Germany reaffirms commitment to Africa’s growth

Rwanda, Africa 50 enter into agreement to develop a special technology hub

SA finmin Mboweni on infrastructure investment, achieving inclusive growth in Africa

Kalagadi Manganese mine plans to become the largest manganese exporter

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