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By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone-  The African Development Bank (AfDB) was appointed in a survey of bond market performers as the best issuer in 2020 of a COVID-19 bond for its $3 billion dollar denominated Fight of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) social bond published on March 27, 2020. The winners of the Global Capital Bond Awards 2020, were declared openly on September 30th, 2020 at a liturgy kept virtually for the first...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Supposedly, Celestin Rwabukumba – Chief Executive Officer of the Rwanda Stock Exchange (RSE), endorsed according to media sources. In furtherance to this, in order to attain single market trading, the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE), the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE), and the RSE will integrate their trading systems and adjoin to the information technology platform, EAC Capital Markets...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- World Business Angels Investment Forum announced the African Development Bank as its newest board member. In this capacity the bank will represent Africa’s early-stage equity markets, entrepreneurship and startup ecosystems, small and medium enterprises and high growth businesses, angel investors, and private equity funds. Abdu Mukhtar, the Bank’s Director of Industrial and Trade Development, will occupy the...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Zimbabwe’s Lafarge Cement (Lafarge), is fixed to finalize the installation of a $2.2 million Dry Mortar Mix (DMX) plant during next slice of 2020 as the cement-maker bent on in bolstering its production capacity, 263 Chat Business has ascertained. Thus, the project is fraction of Lafarge Holcim Group’s $25 million recapitalization of its Zimbabwean subsidiary that was disclosed in 201...