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November 21, 2019:  The Pan-African investment fund Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) announces the signing of an agreement to partially sell its shares in Oragroup to the Social Welfare Institute [...]

November 12, 2019: Pan-African investor Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) announces a strategic partnership with three leading Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), Proparco (France), Finnfund [...]

November 8, 2019: Artcaffé, the Kenyan fast-casual restaurant, and coffeehouse group in which Emerging Capital Partners holds a substantial majority stake opened its largest establishment, the [...]

August 23, 2019: Artcaffé Group has announced the opening of its 29th outlet, Artcaffé Coffee & Bakery at the Kitengela Mall in Kitengela. The 130-seat establishment marks yet another opening for [...]

June 13, 2019: Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) announces an investment to acquire a substantial stake in Mauritius-based Inter Africa Transport Forex (IATF). IATF operates a financial technology [...]

April 16, 2019: Pan-African banking group Oragroup was listed on the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM) during a listing ceremony in Lomé. The listing - the largest since the creation [...]

December 20, 2018: Carolyn Campbell is a founding partner of Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), a pan-African private equity firm which has raised more than US$3bn in growth capital through funds [...]

December 19, 2018: Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) announces an investment to acquire a substantial majority in Artcaffé Group (Artcaffé), a restaurant and coffeehouse chain that operates [...]

November 15, 2018: ECP announces the final close of its fourth Pan-African fund, ECP Africa Fund IV (AFIV). Domiciled in Mauritius, AFIV and its related co-investments received commitments of [...]

October 19, 2018: Pan-African banking group Oragroup, one of ECP’s portfolio companies, announces its plan to raise 56.92 billion CFA francs ($101 million) via the largest ever initial public [...]