Announcement of Dividend

RNS Number : 5451A

Africa Opportunity Fund Limited

21 March 2013

 

21 March 2013

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$0.0020 per share will be paid on 12 April 2013. The shares will be marked ex-dividend on 27 March 2013 and the record date will be 02 April 2013. This is the first instalment of an aggregate annual dividend of an amount equal to the product of Net Asset Value on 31 December 2012 multiplied by the one year LIBOR rate (as derived from Bloomberg) on the 2 January 2013. 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 2013 and January of 2014.

For further information please contact:

Africa Opportunity Fund Limited

Francis Daniels                                     Tel: [phone]

Grant Thornton Corporate Finance (Nominated Adviser)

Philip Secrett/David Hignell                   Tel:  [phone]

LCF Edmond de Rothschild Securities Limited (Nominated Broker)

Hiroshi Funaki                                       Tel: [phone]

 

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