Announcement of Dividend

RNS Number : 8125Z

Africa Opportunity Fund Limited

22 March 2012

 



22 March 2012

Africa Opportunity Fund Limited ("AOF" or "the Company")

Announcement of Dividend

Africa Opportunity Fund Limited is pleased to announce that a quarterly dividend of US$0.0026 per share will be paid on 10 April 2012. The shares will be marked ex-dividend on 28 March 2012 and the record date will be 30 March 2012. This is the first instalment of an aggregate annual dividend of an amount equal to the product of Net Asset Value on 31 December 2011 multiplied by the one year LIBOR rate (as derived from Bloomberg) on the 3 January 2012. This is payable in four equal quarterly instalments of which this is the first, with the following payments expected to be made in July, October of 2012 and January of 2013.

For further information please contact:

Africa Opportunity Fund Limited

Francis Daniels                                     Tel: [phone]

Grant Thornton Corporate Finance (Nominated Adviser)

Philip Secrett                                        Tel:  [phone]

LCF Edmond de Rothschild Securities Limited (Nominated Broker)

Claire Heathfield/Hiroshi Funaki            Tel: [phone]

 

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