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The government of Senegal has acquired a 10 percent stake in the local subsidiary of Dangote Cement. Following the transaction, Dangote Cement’s ownership in the Senegalese unit decreased from 99.99 percent to 89.99 percent. The state has become a minority shareholder.

Nigeria's Dangote Cement has announced plans to expand its production capacity to more than 66 million tons of cement per year by 2028.

The Amsons Goup, a main industrial conglomerate in East Africa, will inject via Kalahari Cement the amount of US$ 201.7m into Kenya’s East Africa Portland Cement PLC (EAPC) to quadruple its cement output.

West China Cement has proposed the acquisition of South Africa’s AfriSam, via its subsidiary West International Building Materials.

After completing the acquisition of Lafarge Africa Plc with a cement production capacity of 10.6 Mta, Huaxin Cement has become the largest overseas cement producer from China.

The inauguration of the Central Africa Cement SA (CAC) cement plant in in the Edéa 1st represents a major step forward in the strategy of industrialization and local transformation of the country's mineral resources

Dangote Cement Plc  is launching a US$336 million blending plant in Botswana to expand its footprint to 12 African nations and reduce dependence on struggling South African operations