15 July 2024
Africa Opportunity Fund Limited ("AOF" or the "Company")
Result of Extraordinary General Meeting
The Board of Africa Opportunity Fund Limited (the "Company") is pleased to announce that the resolution proposed by the Company in its notice of extraordinary general meeting, dated 24 June 2024, was today approved by its shareholders at the Company's Extraordinary General Meeting.
Details of the votes validly cast are set out below:
| · Ordinary resolution that the New Investment Policy and other changes to its governance arrangements described in Part III of the circular dated 24 June 2024 (the 'Circular'), of which this Notice forms part, is approved and adopted in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, the Company's existing investment policy; and
· The continuation of the Company be and is hereby approved.
| In favour | Against | Withheld** 0 | Total 7203005
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| Votes 6996203 | %* 97 | Votes 206802 | %* 3 | |||
* Percentage of votes cast excludes withheld votes.
** "Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes "For" and "Against" a resolution and is not reflected in the total figures set out above.
For further information please contact:
Africa Opportunity Fund Limited
Francis Daniels
Tel: +2711 684 1528
Shore Capital (Corporate Broker)
Gillian Martin / Anita Ghanekar/Sophie Collins
Tel: +44 20 7408 4050
About Africa Opportunity Fund Limited:
Africa Opportunity Fund Limited ("AOF") is a closed-end investment company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and traded on the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange. For more information about AOF, see www.africaopportunityfund.com
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