8 Miles, the $200m private equity fund backed by rock star activist Bob Geldof (pictured), has invested $5m in a start-up company that plans to build commodity exchanges across Africa and improve food security. Eleni, a newly-formed company based in Nairobi, Kenya, was co-founded by Eleni Gabre-Madhin, the former head of the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange.…
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