Africa Investment Forum

Mariem Zein, CEO of @mafcimr, shares her journey of leading a firm in #Mauritania's challenging industrial landscape. Her story in cement manufacturing highlights the importance of female leadership. Watch ⬇️ — then catch the full interview: bit.ly/4sJ7ybO #AIF2025

At #AIF2025: According to Yuichiro Akita, President of the @BerneUnion, the @AfDB_Group is the first multilateral development bank to join the Union – the world's leading export credit & investment insurance industry association. Read more: bit.ly/48CqTlT

In partnership with the @AfDB_Group, the initiative aims to mobilise capital and accelerate transformative projects on the continent.

#AIF2025 | CDG Invest has joined the Growth and Resilience Platform for Africa (GRAf) Platform, marking a significant step towards strengthening private-sector investment across Africa. ➡️ bit.ly/445n47y

At #AIF2025 the @AfDB_Group appointed @SocieteGenerale as Lead Advisor for its new synthetic securitisation platform, designed to unlock capital and expand lending capacity for African financial institutions. ➡️ bit.ly/3XXyEOi

At #AIF2025, Colin Hu, President of Huawei North Africa, shared insights into major projects across the continent. Watch ⤵️

Highlights of Africa50’s week at Africa Investment Forum Market Days 2025, where we joined leaders shaping the future of Africa’s development. The AIF continues to be a key convening space for advancing projects to bankability, raising capital, and accelerating deal closure across the continent. Our delegation was active on the ground, where we: 🔹 Hosted a roundtable on Powering Africa Together by Scaling Distributed Renewable Energy 🔹 Co-curated a panel on Leapfrogging through Regional Integration: Air Connectivity, Trade and Economic Growth in Africa 🔹 Met with key stakeholders, including: ▪️Hon. Nialé Kaba, Minister of Economy, Planning and Development, Côte d’Ivoire ▪️Hon. Situmbeko Musokotwane, Minister of Finance and National Planning, Zambia #Africa50 #AIF2025 #InfrastructureInvestment #PrivateCapital #SustainableGrowth #AfricaInvestmentForum @AfDB_Group @AIFMarketPlace @nsia_nigeria @SunFunder @InfraCredit @isolaralliance

The #AIF2025 generated $ 15.3 billion in investor interest across 39 bankable projects during the 2025 Market Days in Rabat — reinforcing the platform’s role as Africa’s premier marketplace for investment-ready opportunities. ➡️ bit.ly/4rC7WIX

At #AIF2025, @flyethiopian CEO Mesfin Tasew Bekele announced a bold US$12.5 billion expansion – set to deliver Africa's largest aviation hub. The project will be financed primarily through debt, with 70% secured from external lenders and no private equity required. WATCH ⬇️

RECAP: Quotable quote from the panel "From Risk to Opportunity: Investing in Resilient Energy Solutions" at #AIF2025 Kevin Kariuki, @AfDB_Group VP: "Africa must mitigate the impacts of future global shocks on our energy systems by investing in resilient infrastructure."

Reinforcing partnerships across Africa: Africa remains the largest region of OPEC Fund operations, representing more than half of our portfolio. At the Africa Investment Forum @AIFMarketPlace, our Vice President, Private Sector, Tareq Alnassar, and Senior Investment Manager, Malik Faraoun, held a series of bilateral meetings to explore new opportunities across natural resources, transport infrastructure, renewable energy and financial services. Their engagement focused on strengthening our collaboration with African development finance institutions and aligning shared priorities for private sector development.

Closing remarks delivered by @FettahNadia Alaoui, Minister of Economy and Finance of the Kingdom of Morocco, at the #AfricaInvestmentForum 2025.

#AIF2025 | RECAP Video from Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa Session.

Photo highlights from the #AIF2025 closing ceremony.

“Twenty years ago, I started with nothing — just farmers, conviction, and a refusal to give up. No power. No roads. No investors. But persistence opened doors that doubt tried to close.”

#AIF2025 | At the Crossed Perspectives of Women Entrepreneurs panel, agripreneur Yemisi Iranloye shared her journey.

LIVE at #AIF2025: Official Closing Ceremony. ▶️ bit.ly/4ipEJwk

Africa’s investment landscape is changing, and with it, the role of African finance and project execution. At the 2025 African Investment Forum @AIFMarketPlace in Rabat, Mrs. Kanayo Awani, Executive Vice President, Intra-African Trade & Export Development at Afreximbank, joined development leaders, including Daniel M. Best, President of the Caribbean Development Bank; Abdallah Almusaibeeh, President of BADEA - Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa; Samaila Zubairu, President & CEO of Africa Finance Corporation @africa_finance; Admassu Tadesse, Group President of Trade and Development Bank Group - @TdbGroup; Alain Ebobissé, CEO of Africa50 Group; and Mpho Mokwele, Group Executive at Development Bank of Southern Africa (@DBSA_Bank), for a high-level conversation at the Africa Investment Forum on scaling investment through PPPs and development finance. She underlined how African DFIs are now driving major continental projects - citing the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project in Tanzania, operationalised in 2025 after being conceptualised in 1973, and delivered end-to-end by African governments, African EPC contractors, and African capital, with Afreximbank leading financing and providing US$700 million in contracting guarantees. Today’s constraints, she noted, are no longer a lack of capacity but fragmented markets, border inefficiencies that inflate logistics costs, supply-side weaknesses, and differing financing frameworks that slow scale. Unlocking investment at continental levels will require full implementation of the AfCFTA, alignment across DFIs, and deeper project preparation to move ideas to closure faster. She pointed to Afreximbank’s responsiveness in trade finance and its commitment to staying with projects from concept through execution, as demonstrated by transactions emerging from the Africa Investment Forum platform, such as Nyanza Light Metals. Africa has the institutions, capital and technical depth to deliver its own infrastructure future - the task now is to clear bottlenecks, integrate markets and finance at scale. #Afreximbank #AIF2025 #Infrastructure #Investment #AfCFTA

"Going forward, to unleash more of the continent's potential, the African MDB community must step-up its commitment to being catalytic, coherent and credible." - Admassu Tadesse, TDB Group President and Managing Director.

"As is the tradition, this AIF has been conducive to accelerating transactional engagements and showcasing Africa's opportunities from an African perspective." - Admassu Tadesse, TDB Group President and Managing Director.