How London impact fund Infraco is adapting to the crisis
The London-based fund, which has invested more than $170m in African projects, has just agreed a contract in Liberia for the construction of a warehouse, signed off electronically – a step it also recently took to agree another project in Ethiopia. In light of the crisis, the fund intends to increase its capital interventions in order to get things moving.
14/04/2020 at 16h35, by Pierre-Olivier Rouaud
“In the midst of Covid-19-induced isolation, the final conclusion of the shareholders’ agreement was signed off electronically”, a source at Infraco Africa told Jeune Afrique Business+, adding: “This shows that we can find innovative solutions to continue and adapt our work in these very strange times”.
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