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Africa News

Kiira Motors of Uganda is developing a solar-powered bus and a range of solar and hybrid cars.

Africa News

The East African Community has created some of the institutions that it needs to build a full monetary union, which offers substantial benefits, but many pitfalls, for the region.

CEE & CIS news

Slovenia printed €1.3bn of paper on January 17, with the country’s ministry of finance telling EMEA Finance that the deal was part of a year-long focus to ensure secondary market liquidity in its bonds.

Europe news

Seven major European banks are building a Blockchain platform specifically for SMEs that will help simplify, secure and boost their trade transactions across the continent.

Project finance news

DONG Energy pushes forward with plans to add a further 5GW of offshore wind capacity to its portfolio by 2025 with major project awards in Germany.

Multilaterals news

World Bank president Jim Yong Kim sets out a radical agenda for his second term that will move it away from direct funding towards de-risking projects in Africa to make them more attractive to private capital.

Africa news

Nigeria made a barn-storming return to the US dollar bond market when it defied expectations and shaky fundamentals to print below 8% yield on a book that almost hit US$8bn.

CEE & CIS news

Romania placed its lowest yielding 10-year bond ever in early April, and the sovereign was rewarded for holding off from printing immediately after its mid-February budget.