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Nialé Kaba, Côte d'Ivoire's Minister of Economy, Planning and Development, has described Africa's women entrepreneurs as untapped "gold mines" at the 2025 Africa Investment Forum Market Days, stressing that with the right financial instruments and political will, women-led ventures can be transformed into collective victories for the entire continent.

The African Development Bank Group  convened over fifty  global insurers, brokers, export credit agencies, and other risk mitigation stakeholders in Rabat, Morocco for its fourth annual Insurer and ECA Day. The event was held on 25 November on the side lines of the 2025 Africa Investment Forum Market Days.

The Insurer & ECA Day is a strategic platform to strengthen risk sharing and credit enhancement mechanisms to more effectively  mobilise private capital at scale for Africa's development.

  • Agreement signed by CDP, AfDB and CDG Invest aims to foster joint investments, promote international cooperation, and channel capital toward key sectors of the African economy under the Mattei Plan

 

Boosting trade through investments by export credit agencies and harnessing African capital for infrastructure development were key topics on the agenda during two “fireside chat” panel discussions held on the opening day, November 26, of the Africa Investment Forum Market Days. The frank and constructive exchanges highlighted emerging challenges around financing projects that will shape the future of Africa’s economies.

Bankers, heads of development finance institutions, policymakers, civil society organizations and women entrepreneurs convened at a strategic breakfast forum on November 27 during the Africa Investment Forum Market Days to advance gender-lens financing across North Africa.

  • AIF reflects an Africa that no longer defines itself by its constraints but by its solutions, Morocco’s Economy and Finance Minister Nadia Fettah
  • The AIF will introduce an annual dashboard to monitor project progress, AfDB President Ould Tah

 

The 2025 Africa Investment Forum (AIF) Market Days wrapped up on Friday in Rabat, Morocco, with $15.3 billion in investment interest covering 39 bankable projects, underscoring a growing global appetite for African opportunities.

Senior policymakers, investors, and development finance leaders converged at the 2025 Africa Investment Forum Market Days on Thursday to tackle one of the continent's most pressing challenges: unlocking the capital required to meet surging infrastructure and climate demands.

The high-level panel, titled "Innovative Finance Instruments Powering Africa’s Sustainable Transformation,” served as a clear call to action for adopting new approaches beyond conventional funding models and into a new era of investment.

The African Development Bank Group has appointed Societe Generale as Lead Advisor for the structuring and execution of its Multi-Originator Synthetic Securitization Platform (SST Platform).

The two entities signed a contract on November 26 during the Africa Investment Forum Market Days 2025 in Rabat (Morocco).

  • US$ 150 million from the African Development Bank and US$ 125 million from EIB Global, guaranteed by the European Union, to modernise Mauritania’s main railway corridor
  • The landmark project will expand and rehabilitate the Zouerate–Nouadhibou line, strengthen Mauritania’s competitiveness, support green growth, and boost regional integration
  • A joint operation aligned with the European Union’s Global Gateway strategy and Mauritania’s industrial development priorities

 

African finance ministers convening at the 2025 Africa Investment Forum (AIF) have urged a decisive shift from showcasing potential to delivering bankable projects, stressing that private capital --not aid -- must drive the continent’s economic transformation.

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