Minister of Industry and Trade, Joseph Mwanamvekha and Malawi Investment Trade Centre (MITC) Chief Executive Officer Clement Kumbemba, have flown to London, United Kingdom to meet prospective investors ahead of a Global African Investment Summit to take place in December this year.<\/p>\n
The forum, to take place in London, will bring together African leaders from Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania to meet investors from around the globe.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, bilateral meetings with the prospective investors have started taking place ahead of the summit and are being coordinated by the Global African Investment Summit.<\/p>\n
Global African Investment Summit director, Paul Sinclair, told The Daily Times <\/em>on Tuesday that the meetings are meant to prepare the investors on what projects they can invest in the various countries, including Malawi.<\/p>\n \u201cThe ultimate objective of the bilateral meetings is to forge a working relationship with investors which will culminate into signing Memoranda of Understanding on the projects relevant to each company and fund,\u201d said Sinclair.<\/p>\n Companies to meet the Malawi delegation include Well and Able who are interested in pre-financing housing projects, Louis Berger, Geneterc, Old Mutual- Minolka, Taleveras, PW International, Dawnus, UK Export Finance, Globeleg and Ardour Capital Investments.<\/p>\n Mwanamvekha is also expected to meet Baronness Lynda Chalker who heads a consultancy company called Africa Matters Limited which provides advice and assistance to companies initiating, developing or growing their activities in Africa.<\/p>\n Africa Matters Limited, according to Sinclair, has already partnered with governments, multinationals, local companies and NGOs to ensure that the private sector investments play a constructive role in driving African Development.<\/p>\n The meetings will cover infrastructure development including rail, roads and aviation while other meetings will focus on import and export, power infrastructure, water and sanitation and housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minister of Industry and Trade, Joseph Mwanamvekha and Malawi Investment Trade Centre (MITC) Chief Executive Officer Clement Kumbemba, have flown to London, United Kingdom to meet prospective investors ahead of a Global African Investment Summit to take place in December this year. The forum, to take place in London, will bring together African leaders from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6388,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions\/6388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}