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12 September 2024
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Mining

And debt shall have no dominion

ECAs, DFIs and banks to Madagascar’s Ambatovy nickel mine project financing are facing a wipeout of $1.66 billion loans under a new shareholder restructuring proposal....

06 September 2024
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Social infrastructure

Lobito Corridor: Spreading the benefit?

The Lobito Corridor Railway project is progressing, with more than enough funding raised for its initial needs. But questions still remain over whether DFIs should be...

03 September 2024
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Finance and other

Funding African development: Could it be faster, more impactful and cheaper?

Cost of debt and mobilisation of private capital for Africa – could both be done better and cheaper? It’s a $170 billion per year question according to estimates from the...

02 September 2024

Too high a price

Africa pays a premium for its debt that in many instances it should not. Why the onerous debt costs? And what can be done about it without major systemic change?

23 August 2024
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Climate finance

COP29: Will the ‘finance’ COP deliver?

At COP28 countries for the first time addressed the massive elephant in the climate room – fossil fuels, albeit in less than fierce wording. This year, in Azerbaijan,...

16 August 2024
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Climate finance

PIDG’s Valahu on CLEAR fund’s first close

Helios Investment Partners’ Climate, Energy Access, and Resilience (CLEAR) private equity fund has raised $200 million in its first close, leaving the Africa-focused fund...

12 August 2024
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IT and telecoms

Africa data centres: dynamics of demand

Africa accounts for 17% of the global population, but holds less than 1% of the world's data centre capacity. For developers, navigating the grids, energy sources, and,...

08 August 2024
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Agriculture/food chain

Africa agri trade: Are lenders’ risk perceptions misplaced?

Trade financiers are taking a more conservative approach to lending to the increasingly volatile agri sector in Africa. But is the heightened African risk perception...

05 August 2024

Strategic insight: SocGen’s Camilli on navigating the overlap of export, project and development finance for sustainability

Uxolo looks at the way different financial institutions are approaching the crossovers between export, project and development finance in their stated efforts to finance...

02 August 2024

Uxolo Athens: H2 Green Steel's Zinsser on overcoming project complexities

With fairly minimal DFI support from the EIB and NIB, H2 Green Steel (H2GS) pulled off one of the most significant pathfinder project financings of 2023 - the world’s...

26 July 2024
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IT and telecoms

Sonatel’s securitisation: Connecting local investors and telecoms

The importance of digital infrastructure cannot be underestimated: a community connected to the internet generates jobs, security, and economic growth. Telecoms providers...

19 July 2024
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Finance and other

Guarantees: Are MDBs going to get their ducks in a row?

Guarantees demonstrably catalyse private capital mobilisation in emerging markets. So why do MDBs use them so sparingly? The problem is institutional incompatibility.

09 July 2024
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Renewable energy

Uxolo Athens: DEG's DeWit on upping DFI support

Uxolo spoke with Natalie DeWit, DEG Invest's head of strategy to outline how the German DFI is backing small-scale projects and gender-based SME lending to its first...

08 July 2024

Uxolo Athens: ADB’s abundant green horizons

Bart Raemaekers, head of guarantees and syndications at ADB, discusses how the bank’s $13 billion pipeline is leveraging de-risking elements to meet a strong commercial...

05 July 2024
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Climate finance, Renewable energy

Tanzania: How to grow a green capital market

Tanzania tapped its first ever green bond in 2023 and laid a seedbed for this year's even bigger green issue, and its first municipal bond. The notes are viable routes to...

28 June 2024

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28 June 2024
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Renewable energy, Social projects

Uxolo Athens: ILX Fund's broader church of investors

Uxolo spoke with Guillaume Le Bris, head of infrastructure and energy at ILX Fund to discuss how the Amsterdam-based fund is working with DFIs and governments to attract...

28 June 2024
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Climate finance

Financing adaptation: Finding the right fit

Despite the urgent, growing need for climate adaptation and resilience financing, volumes sit at just a tenth of climate mitigation flows. The private sector is...

25 June 2024
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Climate finance, Social infrastructure, Social projects

Uxolo Athens: BII bullish on Africa despite pricing volatility

Colin Buckley, managing director and general counsel at British International Investment (BII) outlines the UK development bank’s new commitments, including its bullish...

21 June 2024

Mobilisation: A reality check

The billions to trillions narrative which the development finance network has based its private capital mobilisation aspirations on since 2015 is on shaky ground because,...