Phoenix Africa: A boxer, a grandee and an ex-soldier seek $27m for rice-producing business in Sierra Leone | Business News | News | The Independent

Phoenix Africa: A boxer, a grandee and an ex-soldier seek $27m for rice-producing business in Sierra Leone | Business News | News | The Independent: "An Oxford University boxing blue, a former Shell chairman, and an ex-SAS commanding officer are looking to raise $26.6m (£17.8m) to build the biggest food company in Ebola-scarred Sierra Leone.

Phoenix Africa focuses on African countries that are recovering from conflicts, such as Sierra Leone’s long civil war, and are therefore neglected by many investors. With just $250,000, it launched a rice-producing business, Lion Mountains, in the Bo District to the south of Sierra Leone at the height of the Ebola crisis last year."



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