Announcement of Dividend

RNS Number : 4258D

Africa Opportunity Fund Limited

24 March 2011

 



24 March 2011

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$0.0018 per share will be paid on 11 April 2011. The shares will be marked ex-dividend on 30 March 2011 and the record date will be 1 April 2011. This is the first instalment of an aggregate annual dividend of an amount equal to the product of Net Asset Value on 31 December 2010 multiplied by the one year LIBOR rate (as derived from Bloomberg) on the 3 January 2011. 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 2011 and January of 2012.

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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