{"id":223904,"date":"2026-02-16T00:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-meya-mining-secures-n400m-ecobank-funding-to-boost-diamond-production-says-trustco-ceo\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:37:15","slug":"namibia-meya-mining-secures-n400m-ecobank-funding-to-boost-diamond-production-says-trustco-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-meya-mining-secures-n400m-ecobank-funding-to-boost-diamond-production-says-trustco-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Meya Mining Secures N$400m Ecobank Funding to Boost Diamond Production, Says Trustco CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>Trustco Group Holdings has confirmed that Meya Mining Limited, in which Trustco holds a minority interest, has secured a N$400-million financing facility from Ecobank Sierra Leone Limited.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">The bank is supported by Ecobank Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In a statement issued on Wednesday, Trustco says the funding will support Meya&#8217;s move towards full commercial diamond production under a 25-year exclusive mining licence in Sierra Leone&#8217;s Kono District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">According to Trustco, the facility will be used for advanced diamond&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602120629.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trustco Group Holdings has confirmed that Meya Mining Limited, in which Trustco holds a minority interest, has secured a N$400-million financing facility from Ecobank Sierra Leone Limited. The bank is supported by Ecobank Ghana. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Trustco says the funding will support Meya&#8217;s move towards full commercial diamond production under a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6557,7213,7465,14221,6141,53662,6477,31289,4706,724,257,7544,10429,254,36103],"class_list":["post-223904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boost","tag-ceo","tag-diamond","tag-ecobank","tag-funding","tag-meya","tag-mining","tag-n400m","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-production","tag-secures","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trustco"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}