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Savannah Cement which is the newest entrant into the cement market in Kenya is set to launch a special kind of cement technically known as Hydraulic Road Binder (HRB) to be used for stabilization of soils during road construction.   This new technology came after a request from the Kenyan Min . . .

African pension fund capital has reached $340 billion and is growing rapidly. In addition, increasing adoption of insurance around the continent is causing insurance company investment portfolios to grow, and they are now estimated to be around $270 billion. These figures come from the Bright Africa . . .

 The head of the Dutch business delegation on a one-day visit to Africa, has told a Africa-Netherlands business dialogue that her investors have come to Africa to invest in the country's economy.   Netherlands Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Minister Lilianne Ploumen disclosed . . .

 The Africa Investment Promotion Commission has said not less than forty intending investors have besieged the Commission for guide about investing in the African economy in the last one month.   The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Mrs Uju Aisha Hassan Baba disclosed this while re . . .

 Over the past two decades the average investment in infrastructure as a percentage of GDP has hovered around 5 per cent, a much lower ration when compared to growing economies such as China that invest about 9 per cent of their GDP in infrastructure development. This lower ratio is an indicati . . .