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Senior Editor, Infrastructure Finance
Amara Okafor monitors the funding structures of large-scale infrastructure projects and Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). She reports on rail, port, and energy capital developments.
amara.okafor@africafdi.orgAnalyze China's leading major investment projects in Africa in 2025 (oil and gas, metals, etc.), explore how Chinese capital is reshaping the investment landscape for key minerals, energy, and industry in Africa, and the trends in global capital flows.
Analyze the driving forces behind the return of global capital to Africa, focusing on the role of sovereign wealth funds in long-term stable investment, as well as the key industries and regional impacts of capital flows.
This paper analyzes the bilateral partnership between EU member states and African countries in the critical minerals sector, exploring the impact of this cooperation on the diversification of the European supply chain, green transition, and industrialization, and revealing capital flows and investment logic.
In 2025, global solid mineral exploration spending totaled US$12.401 billion, falling for the fourth consecutive year, but the capital has not left—it is shifting from grassroots exploration to mine development, from lithium, cobalt, and nickel to copper and gold, and creating marginal growth in Africa and Asia-Pacific.
Global capital is reassessing the underlying logic of Africa's retail market. Traditional trade is no longer just a marginal topic, but a gateway to the consumer population.
Looking at the progress of AfCFTA implementation through the first shipment of salt from Namibia to Nigeria, intra-African trade still accounts for less than 21% of the total. Is capital ready to enter an African market that has yet to be integrated?
Based on the UNCTAD *World Investment Report 2025*, this analysis examines the capital logic behind global FDI declining for the second consecutive year while Africa bucked the trend with a 75% increase, exploring whether Africa can become a new hotspot for global capital.
The Deloitte 2026 Trends Report lists critical minerals as the top issue, with national security replacing pure commercial logic and driving global capital reallocation. What does this mean for Africa's resource markets?
UNCTAD data shows that among Africa's top ten newly announced foreign investment projects in 2025, China ranks first as the source country with nearly $4.7 billion in investment. This article analyzes the strategic intentions, regional impacts, and long-term trends behind these investments from the perspective of capital flows.
As Chinese policy banks scale back their non-loan activities, Gulf sovereign wealth funds and commercial banks are filling Africa's infrastructure financing gap with multi-billion-dollar investments. This article examines the driving logic, regional impact, and long-term trends of this capital shift.
The report shows that the MENA retail market is expected to reach $601.5 billion by 2035. This article analyzes the investment appeal of the North African consumer market and its impact on Africa's investment landscape from the perspective of capital flows.
Africa's used car market is projected to reach $112.58 billion by 2025, with a massive influx of used cars from Japan and South Korea, while digital platforms and fintech are gaining favor with capital. AfricaFDI provides in-depth analysis of capital flows, investment logic, and regional landscape.
From Namibia's first AfCFTA export to the long-term downturn in intra-African trade, this analysis examines the real role of the African Continental Free Trade Area in capital flows and investment patterns.
The African Energy Chamber has released the "2026 Outlook Report," revealing that capital is accelerating its flow into Africa's upstream oil and gas, gas monetization, power gap, and critical minerals sectors. This article interprets the report from the perspective of capital flows, analyzing investment logic and the new landscape of regional competition.
Canada's mining industry in 2026 is experiencing trends such as permit acceleration, industry consolidation, and stricter foreign investment reviews. These changes are reshaping the global critical mineral investment landscape and may direct more capital toward the African mining market.
Dutch development finance institution FMO has committed $12.5 million to the Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund II, which focuses on investing in agricultural value chains in Africa to help smallholder farmers access markets and financing. This article analyzes why development capital continues to flow into African agriculture and the long-term impact of this deal on the regional investment landscape.
Fidra Energy achieved the financial close of £231 million for the West Burton C project in the UK, supported by EIG and the UK National Wealth Fund. This financing event reflects strong global capital interest in large-scale battery energy storage and provides an investment logic reference for the African energy storage market.
The intensification of the US-Iran conflict has driven energy prices to soar, and heightened inflation expectations have strengthened the outlook for interest rate hikes, putting downward pressure on gold prices. This trend is reshaping global capital's investment assessment of African gold-producing countries, particularly economies dependent on gold FDI such as Mali, Ghana, and Burkina Faso.
Analyze how global sustainable investment trends affect capital flows in African mining, focusing on critical minerals, ESG standards, and long-term investment logic.
Analyze the capital logic of India's aluminum industry shifting from import dependence to net export, and explore the cost advantages, market demand, and reshaping of the global aluminum trade pattern.