Private equity

Coffee beans being inspected in rural ugandaA man inspects coffee beans on a drying bed in a rural area Uganda; next to him are three other men

Enimiro gets One Acre Ventures investment

One Acre Ventures said it will invest in Enimiro Uganda, an agribusiness company that works with smallholder farmers, to finance its expansion into coffee processing

Overhead photo of Cold Solutions Kiambu SEZ Limited's storage facility in Kenya

Africa Go Green provides $18m debt facility to finance Cold Solutions Kazi’s cold storage facility

The loan will finance the construction of a cold storage facility with capacity for up to 8,000 pallets in Namanve Industrial Park

A group of men on a guided tour, directed by another man, in a pharmaceuticals factory

Africa Capitalworks SSA 3

Quality Chemical Industries gets new owner as Cipla exits

Africa Capitalworks SSA 3, an investment vehicle based in Mauritius, is the new majority shareholder of the pharmaceutical company

A woman harvests coffee berries in Yangambi, DR Congo

Coffee firm that pays farmers ‘competitive prices’ gets Sh3.2bn in investment funding

JKCC General Supplies says it buys coffee from rural farmers at fair prices and pays them on time, freeing them from extortionate middlemen

Bitature, South African lender fight over $30m property loan

A long-running fight between Ugandan businessman Patrick Bitature and Vantage Capital has gone a notch higher with the lender seeking to auction the jewels of Bitature’s real estate empire in Kampala

International investment funds biggest winners in Umeme dividend payments

International investment funds – with the exception of the National Social Security Fund - will be the biggest earners from the Umeme Ltd dividend payout

Nine PE exits in Uganda in the last decade

The most publicly reported exit in Uganda was the 2016 Actis exit of Umeme. Actis invested in the power distributor in March 2005.