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Kefi progresses funding for Ethiopian project

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Tulu Kapi road construction

8th December 2025

By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Deputy Editor Online

     

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Aim-listed Kefi Gold and Copper has made progress in finalising project funding for its high-grade, high-recovery Tulu Kapi gold project, in Ethiopia.

In October, Kefi indicated that, of the total project funding requirement of $340-million, debt offering had been formally accepted for $240-million, and the remaining requirement of $100-million needed to be in the form of equity-risk capital, of which $40-million had already been arranged and $60-million was yet to be filled.

Since then, the detailed debt documentation for $240-million has been assembled for execution.

Meanwhile, for the $60-million which has yet to be finalised, Kefi has signed terms sheets for $40-million in the form of equity-ranking gold streams, which give it the right to draw up to an aggregate of $20-million, together with the conditional right to an additional $20-million subject to due diligence.

Moreover, the company is processing proposals of $43-million for its Ethiopian birr-denominated preference shares with specific qualified local investors, $23-million of which has progressed into the detailed documentation stage.

Also, a $50-million in-country-level investment by a specialist African fund remains in advanced discussions, together with consideration of other proposals to optimise the equity-risk component of the project financing should they be preferred.

Kefi says it intends to finalise the entire project finance package this month as targeted, enabling full launch. 

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online

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