Sephaku Cement, a subsidiary of Dangote Cement, has secured US$222mn of domestic debt funding for its $390mn cement and clinker plant projects in South Africa
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Dangote Cement to enter Tanzania
Nigeria-based Dangote Cement has announced it plans to set up a manufacturing plant in Tanzania
Nigeria registers low cement consumption rate

Nigeria’s main cement producers are Ashaka Cement, Lafarge WAPCO, Unicem and Dangote Cement. (Image source: EDV Media Director/Flickr)
The Nigerian cement industry has fallen behind its peers in the continent due to a low per capita consumption rate
Kuwait-based company opens cement factory in Uganda

The DAO cement factory will be expected to produce 750 mt of cement per day initially and increase it to 5,000 mt in the long term. (Image source: laser2k/Flickr)
Kuwait-based construction firm, DAO group, has set up a new cement factory in the Budaka district of eastern Uganda
PPC invests in Rwandan cement firm

The Cimerwa transaction is expected to increase PPC revenue outside South Africa to more than 30 per cent by 2015-16. (Image source: PPC)
South African cement maker Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) will buy a stake in Rwandas only cement maker, Cimerwa, for US$69.4mn