London-based Scipion Capital, an Africa dedicated fund firm, has reported that all its three Scipion African Opportunities funds posted positive gains in January.

More than one in two institutional investors see Africa as the most attractive region to invest in the next decade, with one in three expecting to put at least 5 percent of their portfolios into the continent by 2016, a survey showed on Tuesday.

Scipion Capital CIO Nicolas Clavel meets a community of Silverback Gorilla's on his recent trip to Rwanda.

Bloomberg News reports that European banks, led by those from France and Belgium, seek to sell Persian Gulf loan books to Arab banks to help raise cash as the sovereign-debt crisis drags on.