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)](/images/cement__EDV_Media_Director.jpg)
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)](/images/cement__laser2k.jpg)
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)](/images/ppc.jpg)
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