Africa Opportunity Fund Limited Result of AGM (1223H)

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RNS Number : 1223H

Africa Opportunity Fund Limited

05 June 2017

5 June 2017

Africa Opportunity Fund Limited

Result of 2017 Annual General Meeting

The Board of Africa Opportunity Fund Limited (the "Company") is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions proposed by the Company in its notice of annual general meeting, dated 10 May 2017, were today approved by its shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting.

Details of the votes validly cast are set out below:

 
                               In favour          Against      Withheld**     Total 
----------------------------  -----------------  -----------  -----------  ----------- 
                               Votes        %*    Votes   %* 
----------------------------  -----------  ----  ------  ---  -----------  ----------- 
 Ordinary resolution 
  that the financial 
  statements for 
  the year ended 
  31 December 2016, 
  with the reports 
  of the Directors 
  and Auditors thereon, 
  be received.                 28,191,370   100                             28,191,370 
----------------------------  -----------  ----  ------  ---  -----------  ----------- 
 Ordinary resolution 
  that Mr. Robert 
  Knapp be re-elected 
  as director of 
  the Company.                 13,324,086   100                14,867,284   28,191,370 
----------------------------  -----------  ----  ------  ---  -----------  ----------- 
 Ordinary resolution 
  that Ernst & Young 
  Mauritius be re-appointed 
  as auditors of 
  the Company.                 28,191,370   100                             28,191,370 
----------------------------  -----------  ----  ------  ---  -----------  ----------- 
 Ordinary resolution 
  that the directors 
  be authorised to 
  fixed the auditors' 
  remuneration.                28,191,370   100                             28,191,370 
----------------------------  -----------  ----  ------  ---  -----------  ----------- 
 

* 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: [phone]

About Africa Opportunity Fund Limited:

Africa Opportunity Fund Limited is a closed-end investment company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and traded on the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange.

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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