Cairo, 26 September 2022 – African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has commended the Governments of Niger and Burkina Faso for adopting a factoring law to support the business activities of SMEs. The enactment of the factoring law by these two countries will support the emergence and growth of factoring, which in turn will support SMEs in

Cairo, 15 September 2022 – African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is delighted to announce that Samallie Kiyingi, the Bank’s Director Legal Services, has won General Counsel of the Year at the African Legal Awards, held in Johannesburg. The African Legal Awards celebrate exceptional achievement among Africa’s legal elite, and this year the awards marked their ninth

Abidjan, 15 September 2022 – The next Creative Africa Nexus Weekend (CANEX WKND) will be hosted in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from 25 to 27 November 2022, the Government of Côte d’Ivoire and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) have announced. The announcement released today in Abidjan stated that Côte d’Ivoire had agreed to host CANEX WKND

Bridgetown, Barbados, 13 Sept. 2022: The three-day AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum 2022 (ACTIF2022) hosted in Bridgetown, Barbados, ended on a high note with the signing of a total of 14 agreements and memorandums of understanding (MoUs) aimed at deepening economic ties between Africa and the Caribbean. The agreements, expected to form the foundation for

Bridgetown, Barbados, 03 September 2022: The AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum 2022 (ACTIF2022) successfully concluded in Bridgetown, Barbados, with a commitment by participants to remove the scars of the past and build a commercial bridge towards forging a prosperous future for Africa and the Caribbean. In the communique presented at the end of the Forum,

Bridgetown, Barbados, 01 Sept. 2022: Africa and the Caribbean have it within their capacity “forever to remove the scars of the middle passage” by cooperating on the great issues confronting the two regions, Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barabados said today at the opening of the first-ever AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2022) in Bridgetown,

Bridgetown, Barbados, 1 September 2022 – The first-ever AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2022) opened today in Bridgetown, Barbados, with African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) announcing that it would work with governments of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to set up a Caribbean Exim Bank and that it envisaged committing an investment of US$700 million in the

Lake Kivu, Rwanda, 31 August 2022 – African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) was delighted to attend the ground-breaking ceremony marking an historical milestone in the GasMeth Compressed Natural Gas project. The project, being developed by Gasmeth Energy Limited, has the capacity to rapidly transform the industrial and trade landscape of Rwanda and the broader East African sub-region. Afreximbank’s

Over 1,500 delegates from 93 countries already registered for ACTIF2022 Bridgetown/Cairo, 30 August 2022 – The first-ever AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2022), being held at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre in Bridgetown, Barbados, from 1 to 3 September, will hear addresses from Barbados’ Prime Minister Hon. Mia Amor Mottley; President Chandrikapersad Santokhi of Suriname,

Cairo, 23 August 2022 – African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced that Japan Credit Rating Agency (JCR) has affirmed its long-term issuer rating of A- and maintained the “Stable” outlook. The affirmation of Afreximbank’s issuer rating is testament of the Bank’s ever strengthening credit profile and positions to continue to expand and escalate its interventions

Lomé, August 16, 2022 – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) as Lead Manager, the Togolese subsidiary of the Ecobank Group and BIA Togo, Attijariwafa Bank Group, have signed a credit agreement with Plateform Industrial Adétikopé SAS (PIA) for the construction of the infrastructure of the Adétikopé Industrial Platform which covers a total area of 400

11 August 2022, Bridgetown, Barbados – African participants in the first-ever AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2022) taking place in Bridgetown, Barbados, from 1 to 3 September will benefit from a decision by the Government to waive visa requirements for passport holders from 24 African countries who would have needed visas to enter the country.