Director's Interests and Total Voting Rights

Mwana Africa PLC

(the "Company")

Director's Interests and Total Voting Rights

London, 20 April 2012  - Mwana Africa PLC announces that following the placing and subscription of 383,042,447 new ordinary shares (the "Placing and Subscription Shares") announced by the Company on 3 and 19 April 2012, the interests of Kalaa Mpinga (CEO of Mwana Africa) and his immediate family and persons connected to him (within the meaning of section 252 of the Companies Act 2006) in the issued share capital of the Company remained at 39,208,675 ordinary shares of 1p each ("Ordinary Shares"), but reduced as a percentage of the issued share capital from 5.46 percent to 3.56 percent.

The Placing and Subscription Shares were admitted to trading on AIM today, 20 April 2012.

In accordance with the Financial Services Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules ("DTR"), the total issued share capital of the Company with voting rights is 1,100,943,155 Ordinary Shares. 2,666,600 Ordinary Shares are currently held in treasury.

The above figure of 1,100,943,155 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the DTR.

For more information, please visit www.mwanafrica.com or contact:

Enquiries:

Mwana Africa PLC Tel: +44 (0)20 7654 5580

Donald McAlister

Nominated Adviser and Broker

Liberum Capital Limited Tel: +44 (0) 20 3100 2000

Michael Rawlinson / Tom Fyson / Chris Kololian

PR

Tavistock Communications Tel: +44 (0)20 7920 3150

Ed Portman / Simon Hudson / Mike Bartlett