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 State woos international investors to finance Sh790 trillion big-ticket projects It has not escaped the attention of many that enthusiastic foreign investors made a beeline for Nairobi last week eager to clinch deals in Kenya, which is considered the financial and business hub of the East Afri . . .

 Basikwa Trading (Pty) Ltd was established in 2007, and has since taken advantage of the opportunities opening up in South Africa with regards to diamond benefication. The company trades in rough and polished diamonds on the local market and export to the international diamond trade, and value . . .

 E K Farms has acquired over 100 hectares of land, and is now seeking investors to set up a biogas plant on the land. As Africa faces rising energy tariffs and becomes more aware of the dangers of traditional fuel and the greenhouse effect, the demand for more cost efficient biogas is increasi . . .

 The US consul general to Nigeria, Jeffry Hawkins, revealed this recently during a meeting with the state governor Adams Oshiomhole. Hawkins said the US$250mn fertiliser plant was being planned by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation of the US government. Hawkins revealed, “We ar . . .

 Baobab Equity Management (Pty) Ltd is a Namibian owned company that was awarded an Exploration Prospecting Licence (EPL) to explore for phosphorites off the shores of Namibia in 2010. The company appointed a South African based geological expert to perform a preliminary desktop review of the d . . .