{"id":231213,"date":"2026-04-24T03:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-british-international-investment-targets-9bn-new-capital-for-africa-economic-growth\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:18:07","slug":"africa-british-international-investment-targets-9bn-new-capital-for-africa-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-british-international-investment-targets-9bn-new-capital-for-africa-economic-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: British International Investment Targets \u00a39bn New Capital for Africa Economic Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">British International Investment (BII), has launched its new five-year strategy, with the aim to drive \u00a39 billion of new capital into Africa to support economic growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"73\">A central pillar of the strategy is a focus on accelerating the flow of private capital into African countries. Of the \u00a39 billion, BII will contribute nearly \u00a35 billion, with the balance expected to come from private institutions in Africa and globally. Drawing on nearly eight decades of investing experience in Africa, BII will&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604230601.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British International Investment (BII), has launched its new five-year strategy, with the aim to drive \u00a39 billion of new capital into Africa to support economic growth. A central pillar of the strategy is a focus on accelerating the flow of private capital into African countries. Of the \u00a39 billion, BII will contribute nearly \u00a35 billion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231214,"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":[249],"tags":[48895,258,256,409,6959,3576,6641,4337,6018,257,393,254,7317],"class_list":["post-231213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-9bn","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-british","tag-capital","tag-growth","tag-international","tag-investment","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-targets"],"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\/231213","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}