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Société Générale Guinée – Guinean Gold: a Private Bank That Has Won Trust of Public
Société Générale Guinée has a century-and-a-half of history — and a go-ahead CEO who has overseen impressive growth. Société Générale Guinée was created in 1985 and is today the West African country’s leading private bank in terms of equity, credits,
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Swiss Precision, African Spirit with CEO Daouda Fall: Brahms Group has Found the Perfect Balance
Switzerland-based and Africa-led, the Brahms Group was born as a consultancy in 2009 — and has grown into an established player in project development and impact investment. In the firm’s consultancy days, founder and CEO Daouda Fall raised some $50m
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World Bank’s Vice President for Infrastructure: Now is the Time to Rethink Transport and Logistics
Covid-19 has had a huge impact on transport. The response to the pandemic, from social distancing to lockdown policies for affected areas, has disrupted mobility and connectivity everywhere. It has had cumulative impacts on the basic infrastructure and systems that
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African Governments Invest in Skills in Sciences, Engineering, and Technology
President Macky Sall of Senegal launches a new Regional Scholarship and Innovative Fund in Johannesburg, South Africa, in June 2015. $5 million committed by African governments and African Business Champions for Science to award 10,000 PhDs scholarships over ten years.
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World Bank: Infrastructure Financing Options – Bankable Projects for Private Investors
Strategic investment funds have emerged as a way of addressing gaps in the infrastructure investment lifecycle. These funds are wholly or partially owned by governments or other public institutions, and are designed to mobilise private investment to key economic sectors.
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CFI.co Meets the Director General of Senelec: Mouhamadou Makhtar Cissé
Mouhamadou Makhtar Cissé has served as director general of Senegalese power company Senelec since June 2015. Mr Cissé previously served for five years as the director general of Customs of Senegal, during which time he also served for a time
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African Risk Capacity (ARC): Towards Resilience – Africa Takes Disaster Management Into Its Own Hands
African Risk Capacity (ARC) has been named by CFI.co, for the second year running, as the most innovative environmental, social, and governance risk protection provider in Africa, in recognition of its dedication to technological and financial innovation, and its contribution
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World Bank Group: Development Finance Frontline – Strategic Investment Funds
This is the first of a series of occasional interviews with senior strategic investment fund (SIF) professionals. Tasked with attracting private investors to priority economic sectors and projects, SIFs combine developmental aims with commercial financial return objectives. “The only way
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African Risk Capacity: Africa Takes the Lead in Managing Climate Risk
Climate negotiations in Paris last year focused the world’s attention on the fact that Africa’s vulnerable populations will be shouldering most of the burden of rising temperatures despite having barely contributed to global greenhouse gas emissions. Greater rainfall extremes and
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Keiko Honda, CEO MIGA: Crucial Role for Investment Guarantees
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), part of the World Bank Group, is a financial institution exclusively dedicated to political risk insurance and credit guarantees that offer investors a hedge against risk in developing countries. The agency was established in
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