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Airtel Africa, the UK telecommunication company providing services across Africa, has raised $500m from a range of international lenders. It becomes one of the latest Africa-based issuers to inject activity into the syndicated loan market. -
Amid a broader downturn in emerging market syndicated loans, several African issuers — including sovereigns — are seeking debt facilities from international lenders.
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An uneven economic recovery is expected across emerging and developed markets over the next year, the IMF said this week during its spring meetings. Meanwhile, a proposed boost to special drawing rights has split market opinion.
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The announcement this week that the IMF is on its way to issuing a further $650bn of special drawing rights, providing central banks with extra foreign currency liquidity, should not be criticised for being too little, too late. It marks a much needed return to multilateralism, something that the developing world will benefit from.
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Development banks across the world — and especially those in Africa — have proven to be indispensable sources of relief during the last year. Though Africa has a wealth of challenges to economic recovery, the West African Development Bank, also known as Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement (BOAD), has high ambitions for the year ahead. The bank’s president Serge Ekué spoke to GlobalCapital about these ambitions, including an imminent capital raise.
