{"id":42401,"date":"2021-12-01T05:02:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T05:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdas.org\/?p=42401"},"modified":"2021-12-01T05:04:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T05:04:28","slug":"dp-world-has-tied-up-with-uks-cdc-group-to-invest-1-72-bn-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/2021\/12\/01\/dp-world-has-tied-up-with-uks-cdc-group-to-invest-1-72-bn-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"DP World has tied up with UK&#8217;s CDC Group to invest $1.72 bn  in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33222\" src=\"http:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DPWorld.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In CDC, we have found a long-term partner with whom we share a same goal of investing in Africa&#8217;s long-term infrastructure, which is vital to unlocking the continent&#8217;s commerce potential,&#8221; In a statement, DP World Chairman Sultan Ahmed bin Saeed remarked.<\/p>\n<p>DP World and CDC have announced that investments in ports, container depots, business parks, and other logistics infrastructure will be undertaken through a newly formed platform.<\/p>\n<p>DP World said it aimed to invest $1 billion in the platform over the next five years, and it had already given minority holdings in three African ports to the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The ports are in Egypt&#8217;s Sokhna, Senegal&#8217;s Dakar, and Somaliland&#8217;s breakaway region of Berbera.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC of the United Kingdom has pledged to invest 320 million dollars on the platform initially, with an extra 400 million over the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In CDC, we have found a long-term partner with whom we share a same goal of investing in Africa&#8217;s long-term infrastructure, which is vital to unlocking the continent&#8217;s commerce potential,&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54237,"featured_media":42402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[509],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42405,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42401\/revisions\/42405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}