INVESTMENT: China No.5 largest foreign investor

 On May 28th at 17:30 BST, as part of the Homestrings Webinars Investor Series, we’re pleased to invite you to the webinar on “Homestrings Product: Innovare Agriculture Leasing Bond”.

The Innovare Agriculture Leasing Bond is designed to increase the availability of capital for African agriculture value chain companies to grow their businesses and increase food and feed production. It has been created to provide attractive, risk-mitigated market-rate returns which include a 50% credit...

Managing Director of DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Charles Brewer.

Although the number of foreign direct investments (FDI) fell by 8.4% in 2014, capital investment into Africa surged to US$128b, a year-on-year increase of 136%, according to the recently released EY 2015 Africa Attractiveness Survey and the average investment increased to US$174.5m per project, up from US$67.8m in 2013.

Charles Brewer, Managing Director of DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), says that this is...

China’s total direct investment in Tanzania soared from $700 million in 2011 to $2.1 billion last year, turning the world’s second biggest economy into the biggest foreign investor in the east African country, it has emerged.

China yesterday fined seven foreign shippers including three Japanese firms a combined 407 million yuan ($63 million) for price-fixing in the latest case involving government scrutiny of overseas companies.

The former Apple CEO and founder of Obi Mobiles Mr. John Sculley discusses a point during their visit of Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) to explore investment opportunities. This company is now eying the East African market. The former Apple CEO and Obi Mobiles co-founder Mr. John Sculley explains something during the visit of Tanzania Investment Centre offices today, 20 March 2015. On his left is Mrs. Diane Sculley. The meeting between Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology,...

>The government has ordered an investor in Arumeru District to hand over 2,000 hectares of land to local residents.

>Police has confirmed reports that six people were injured after being shot at by a French investor (name withheld) in Paje area in South Unguja Region.

Investor sentiment in Germany slumped in October as the Volkswagen pollution cheating scandal and slowing emerging markets growth dampen the outlook for Europe’s top economy, a leading survey said yesterday.

>Obtala Resources continues to expand its agricultural operations in Morogoro - revealing it had taken a lease on a chunk of agricultural land there, aiming to plant orchards that could save it $1mln a year.