VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 29, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX-V:EAM) (“East Africa” or the “Company”) announces the closing of a $2M private placement with Luck Sky Resources Investment Limited (“LS”), under which the Company issued 7,700,000 units at a price of $0.26 per unit, for gross proceeds of $2,002,000.  Each unit consists of one common share and one-half of one share purchase warrant.  Each whole warrant entitles the holder to purchase one common share at an exercise price of $0.45 for a period of 24 months from the date of closing.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 15, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX-V:EAM) (“East Africa” or the “Company”) reports that as announced in its news release dated March 24, 2016, the Company’s Board of Directors has approved of the grant of up to 2,750,000 bonus common shares to certain officers of the Company, subject to certain conditions including the issue of mining license for the Company’s Harvest project, shareholder approval, and approval of TSX Venture Exchange. Shareholders voted 99.28% in favour (see news release dated June 24, 2016) and in 2016 the TSX Venture Exchange approved of the issuance of the shares. 

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 14, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX-V:EAM) (“East Africa” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide the following update on the financing announced November 10, 2017.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX-V:EAM) (“East Africa” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce, subsequent to the recently acquired Mining License for the Terakimti Oxide Gold Project (See news release dated December 7, 2017), the Company has submitted two additional Mining Licence applications  for the Company’s Da Tambuk and Mato Bula Gold deposits at the Company’s 100% owned Adyabo Project located in the Tigray National Regional State of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (“Ethiopia”).

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 07, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX-V:EAM) (“East Africa” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the Company has received government approval of East Africa’s Mining Licence Agreement for the Terakimti Oxide Gold Project (the “Terakimti Project”) at the Company’s 70% owned Harvest Project located in the Tigray National Regional State of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (“Ethiopia”).

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 10, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX-V:EAM) (“East Africa” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide the following update on the financing announced October 2, 2017.

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - October 02, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: EAM) ("East Africa" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the signing of a binding memorandum of understanding ("MOU") with Luck Winner Investment Limited ("LW") providing for project development financing of up to US$250 million and a private placement of 52,100,000 units at a price of $0.26 per unit for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately C$13,550,000. LW has also agreed to provide an unsecured loan to the Company in the amount of C$2,000,000.

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - September 01, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: EAM) ("East Africa" or the "Company") East Africa announces that SinoTech (Hong Kong) Corporation Limited, an insider of the Company, has agreed to provide an unsecured loan to the Company in the amount of $600,000.

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - August 14, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc.(TSX VENTURE: EAM) ("East Africa" or the "Company") is pleased to announce final diamond drill hole results from the most recent infill diamond drilling program at the Mato Bula deposit, part of the Company's Adyabo Project in Ethiopia.

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - June 23, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: EAM) ("East Africa" or the "Company") announces voting results from its Annual Meeting of Shareholders held today in Vancouver, BC.

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - May 29, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc.(TSX VENTURE: EAM) ("East Africa" or the "Company") is pleased to announce newly received results from recently completed infill diamond drilling at the Adyabo Project, Mato Bula deposit in Ethiopia.

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - May 11, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc.(TSX VENTURE: EAM) ("East Africa Metals" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has been informed the Ministry of Mines, Petroleum and Natural Gas (the "Ministry") has completed its review of the Company's Mine Permit Application and has issued a draft Model Agreement for the Company's Terakimti Oxide Gold Project located in the Tigray National Regional State of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - April 27, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: EAM) (the "Company" or "East Africa") has granted an aggregate of 1 million stock options to certain directors pursuant to the Company's Stock Option Plan. The options have an exercise price of $0.285 per share and an expiry date of April 25, 2022.

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - April 24, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: EAM) ("East Africa" or the "Company") is pleased to announce newly received results from on-going diamond drilling at the Adyabo Project in Ethiopia. Four holes have been completed at Da Tambuk, as part of a detailed infill program in the central area of the resource, and results for a total of eleven holes have been received from the Mato Bula south 40m x40m infill drill program.

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - March 27, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: EAM) (or the "Company") is pleased to announce results from a multi targeted drill program at the Harvest and Adyabo Projects in the Arabian Nubian Shield of Ethiopia. The Company has conducted additional drill testing of the Harvest Project Mayshehagne and VTEM09 VMS prospects to potentially upgrade targets, confirm interpretation of mineralization, and assess targets for inclusion as potential satellite resource zones. Both prospects are located near the EAM's Terakimti resource deposit. Drill intercepts continue to reflect very strong metal grades seen in previous drilling, and identifies the need for further delineation work on the VMS prospects.

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - March 07, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc.(TSX VENTURE: EAM) (or the "Company") announces today the closing of a $5.2M private placement with Shandong Tyan Home Co., Ltd. ("STH"), a Chinese listed public company. The private placement will finance ongoing exploration and project development activities at the Company's Harvest and Adyabo projects, located in the Tigray region of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia.

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - February 22, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: EAM) ("East Africa" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update for on-going exploration and resource definition on the Adyabo and Harvest Projects in Ethiopia.

VANCOUVER, BC --(Marketwired - January 23, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: EAM) ("East Africa" or the "Company") is pleased to report the final results of a comprehensive metallurgical test program completed for the Terakimti Oxide Gold Project in the Federal Republic of Ethiopia. Column leach testwork achieved gold extractions up to 74.8% with rapid leach rates.

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - January 17, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: EAM) ("East Africa" or the "Company") East Africa announces that SinoTech (Hong Kong) Corporation Limited, an insider of the Company, has agreed to provide an unsecured loan to the Company in the amount of $500,000 at an interest rate of 12% per annum. The loan and all accrued and unpaid interest (non-compounding) is payable upon the earlier of (a) 10 business days after the Company's closing of the $5,200,000 financing with Shandong Tyan Home Co., Ltd. (see news release dated January 9, 2017); or (b) 90 days from the Company's receipt of the loan proceeds. East Africa understands that the Shandong Tyan Home Co., Ltd financing is in its final regulatory approval process.

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - January 09, 2017) - East Africa Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: EAM) ("East Africa" or the "Company") is pleased to provide the following updates on the Company's activities: