Meridiam

The New Guard
Burkina Faso, Kenya, DRCongo

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Burkina Faso Roland Yago, the financier ranking West African banks

Kenya Shikoh Kihika, an 'artivist' fighting tribalism

DRC Eric Mukuma, afterlife and environmental entrepreneur

Gabon
Meridiam, Eramet and Veja among Macron's business delegation in Libreville

French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Gabon on 2 March to take part in the One Forest Summit. He will be accompanied by a large business delegation that includes Meridiam, Veja and Eramet

Senegal
Reed Smith and Hogan Lovells level-pegging on bus rapid transit advisory contract

Funders of Dakar's Bus Rapid Transit have approached a handful of British law firms for legal support on the project financing.

Tunisia
SCET and Suez clean up in privatisation of wastewater management

Segor, co-owned by the Tunisian engineering firm SCET and the French utility giant Suez, has emerged as the big winner after the state decided to outsource the management of its sanitation facilities.

Morocco
Nareva and Suez soon united for Casablanca desalination plant bid

An alliance between Mohammed VI's Nareva and French water specialist the "new Suez" could help the Moroccan electricity producer add 'national water and irrigation leader' to its name.

Madagascar
After World Bank sanctions, Meridiam increases its stake in Ravinala Airports

Following World Bank sanctions on three of the four shareholders of Ravinala Airports (ADP International, Colas and Bouygues), the capital of this consortium, which manages the new Ivato airport and Nosy Be airport, has been being shaken up in favour of the only shareholder to have escaped sanctions, namely the Meridiam fund.

Morocco
CDG and RMA Watanya tempted to bail out amid Lydec takeover

Casablanca's water and electricity supplier is the subject of a tender offer within the framework of the Suez-Veolia merger, which will result in it becoming part of the new Suez entity controlled by Meridiam and GIP.

Madagascar
Will Meridiam run Ivato airport's new terminal alone?

The restructuring of the capital of the consortium Ravinala Airports, which manages Ivato's airport new terminal, should speed up following a 4 January move by the World Bank, anticipated by Africa Intelligence, to sanction the French construction companies Bouygues and Colas as well as Groupe ADP, all three of which are shareholders in the consortium.

Madagascar
World Bank wraps up corruption investigation into Ivato airport

The first few months of the new terminal at Ivato, built and managed by a consortium of Aéroports de Paris, the Meridiam fund and the Bouygues and Colas construction groups, are expected to be disrupted by the findings of an investigation by the World Bank's anti-corruption unit, a branch of which was involved in financing the project.

Madagascar
Ivato airport inauguration carefully crafted to reconcile president's office with Meridiam and ADP

Great care is being taken over the organisation of Ivato airport terminal's inauguration ceremony, which should end two years of hostilities between Madagascar's president and Ravinala consortium, a joint venture between France's Meridiam infrastructure fund and Groupe ADP.