Abidjan, 27 July 2015 – Ivorian Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan today in Abidjan called on the African Export- Import Bank (Afreximbank) to strengthen its trade finance support to the country to enable it raise its trade volume with other African countries to 50 per cent of its total external trade volume by 2020. Speaking

Cairo, 22 July 2015 – Moody’s Investors Service announced today that it has changed the outlook on the Baa2 long-term issuer rating of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) from negative to stable. Concurrently, the rating agency also affirmed Afreximbank’s Baa2/P-2 long and short-term ratings. In a statement issued in New York, Moody’s said that the

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Cairo, 9 July 2015 – Guinea-based construction company Guicopres is the beneficiary of a 50-million Euro dual tranche credit facility from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) for the execution of public works across the country. Afreximbank announced in Cairo that the facility, which is guaranteed by the Central Bank of Guinea, consists of a first

Cairo, 8 July 2015 – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)  today signed on to provide a 15-million Euro financing facility to Afriland First Bank’s Côte d’Ivoire subsidiary for the financing of  transactions by SME’s in that country’s key growth sectors. The signing of the term sheet for the facility was held as part of activities

Cairo, 8 July 2015 – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) today announced the closing of the general syndication stage of the largest ever term loan facility in the Bank’s history, with the conclusion of a $458 million and EUR406.5 million two-year, dual tranche facility. Afreximbank reported that the facility, which closed on 6 July, attracted

Accra, 03 July 2015 – Ghanaian President John Mahama today in Accra urged the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to further strengthen its trade finance support to the Ghanaian business sector, particularly in the areas of agro-processing and pharmaceuticals. support from Afreximbank Speaking when Dr. Benedict Oramah, President Designate of the Bank, paid him courtesy call,

Cairo, 29 June 2015 – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) today signed on to an agreement to provide a 57 million-Euro credit facility for the construction of a five-star hotel and spa by Cape Verde-based Decameron New Horizon group along the island nation’s main Santa Maria beach. The approval of the dual tranche facility was

Bamako, 25 June 2015 – With a $1 billion pipeline of tourism-related projects across Africa, the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is making a big difference in helping its Member States to more easily deliver on their tourism strategies while creating jobs, the Bank announced today in Bamako. Obi Emekekwue, Head of External Communications at Afreximbank,

Lusaka, 13 June 2015 – Shareholders of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) today appointed Dr. Benedict Oramah to be the next President of the continental multilateral trade finance institution, making him the third President to serve the Bank since its establishment in 1993. Dr. Oramah’s appointments was one of the key decisions taken during the

Lusaka, 13 June 2015 – The total assets of  the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) grew more than ten-fold from about half a billion dollars in 2004 to over $5 billion in 2014, “despite challenges at the early part of my Presidency and episodic macroeconomic shocks thereafter”, Jean-Louis Ekra, outgoing President of the Bank, said today

Lusaka, 12 June 2015 – Africa should pursue economic integration on the basis of regional economic communities rather than trying to do so with the more than 54 countries on the continent, Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria, has said in Lusaka. In a wide-ranging discussion held in the run-up to the 22nd Annual General