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The Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) closed on June 30 at $58 million. This first-of-its-kind equity fund provides critical capital to support African agribusinesses that help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change.

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By most measures, medical oxygen in sub-Saharan Africa isn’t an investable market. Indeed, when Oxygen CoLab set out to map Nigeria’s oxygen supplier landscape, the prevailing view was that funded demand for oxygen services barely existed, and that the companies in the space — outside of the big multinational gas firms — were too informal and too few to take seriously as inve...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has invested $332m (about R5.4bn) in a capital markets security issued by Standard Bank Group to expand financing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa.

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Short-term catalytic financing will help Koolboks fulfill a 500-unit order

Miller Center Capital, the impact investing arm of Miller Center for Global Impact at Santa Clara University, has provided shor...

The ongoing aid recession is not a temporary dip but a fundamental restructuring of how global development will be financed. Recent data shows that funds provided by governments of the 33