Every transaction we track

The largest single urban programme in Africa; fiscal sustainability is contested.

Negotiated for over a decade; the HGA remains unsigned.

Announced scale exceeds Mauritania's entire economy many times over. Treat as an option, not a pipeline.

If financed, the longest subsea HVDC cable in the world and a template for exporting African solar.

The single most consequential infrastructure programme in Southern Africa. Without it, no new generation connects.

The largest greenfield integrated mine-rail-port programme in the world.

Force majeure since 2021. The largest single FDI commitment in African history sits on a security judgement.

The densest economic corridor in West Africa: roughly 75% of regional trade.

The largest unbuilt hydro proposition on earth. Repeatedly reconfigured; offtake from South Africa remains the pivot.

A phosphate producer building its own grid, desalination and ammonia — the largest corporate capex programme in Africa.

Announced totals across SCZone MoUs exceed $80bn; only a fraction has reached FEED.

Land allocation under the Offre Maroc is the fastest hydrogen permitting regime on the continent.

Sole-sourced and financed through an infrastructure tax-credit scheme. The governance questions are the story.

Electrified SGR to Mwanza — the most technically ambitious rail programme in East Africa.

The largest single announced investment in Namibian history, at roughly 5x national GDP.

Africa's largest planned airport, underwritten by the only consistently profitable flag carrier on the continent.

Third-party access on the coal and iron-ore lines is the largest open-access experiment on the continent.

Offshore floating liquefaction sidesteps the onshore security problem entirely — the workaround as strategy.

Segment-by-segment delivery; financing has repeatedly outrun disbursement.

The World Cup 2030 deadline is doing what a decade of appraisal could not.

Two distressed sovereign offtakers sharing one asset. GE/PowerChina consortium terminated in 2022.

Adds a third to Nigerian liquefaction capacity; upstream feedgas security is the open question.

Self-financed to a remarkable degree. Converts Ethiopia into a structural regional power exporter.

The southern African transmission spine depends on this and the associated 1,300km line to Maputo.

Angola's largest single infrastructure contract, executed by CGGC.

The longest driverless monorail in the world, connecting the New Capital to Giza.

One of the largest onshore wind farms under construction anywhere.

Grid stability, not capital, is the first constraint on a 1 GW unit in a 3 GW system.

Built inside a World Heritage site; doubles national capacity in a single asset.

The unfinished half of the SGR. Without Malaba, the Ugandan traffic case never materialises.

Japan's single largest infrastructure exposure in Africa.

Transit times published monthly by the corridor authority — the best freight data in East Africa.

Refining mandates now attach to bauxite licences; power supply is the unresolved variable.

The most ambitious regional solar programme and the most politically exposed.

Oil-collateralised housing at scale; occupancy and affordability have lagged completion throughout.

Tied French sovereign finance; the largest single transport commitment in Francophone West Africa.

Contract moved from CHEC to Yapı Merkezi in 2024 after eight years of financing failure.

Signed with fanfare in 2019, never financed. A useful reminder of how much announced pipeline is not real.

The project that proved concentrated solar at scale in Africa — and its cost.

Twenty million people served by a utility with fewer than 500,000 metered connections.

Africa's largest transboundary water asset and one of its few reliably bankable ones.

Sub-sovereign delivery outperforming the federal programme it connects to.

The flagship Western counter-offer to Chinese resource-corridor finance. Copper and cobalt to the Atlantic.

Nigeria generates far more than it delivers; this is the wires-and-metering fix, six years behind schedule.

The cheapest incremental megawatts in Southern Africa, gated on the Mozambique-South Africa line.

Proof that a feed-in tariff plus a single land bank can mobilise 40+ sponsors in one location.

A hub bet rather than a demand response; the Qatari stake is the substance.

Anchored by the TER commuter line — the rare new-city project with credible transport-led demand.

Hydrocarbon-funded, procured without external finance — invisible to most PPI datasets.

AI-led exploration validated by drilling; the first serious Western greenfield copper bet in Zambia in decades.

The Africa50 flagship: infrastructure as a platform for services exports rather than commodities.

Peak-shifting across time zones; the largest cross-continental interconnector in the region.

Largest private participation transaction in Malawi's history.

The Congolese leg is where the Lobito thesis is actually tested.

Hydromet refining in-country is the state's condition; it is also the project's largest technical risk.

The reference African hydro PPP: 15 lenders, local-currency tranche, delivered close to schedule.

Among the last large new coal units financed on the continent.

Nigeria's first deepwater container port; hinterland road access remains the constraint.

Fast, visible and contested: tens of thousands displaced with limited resettlement provision.

Fifty years after construction, the original Chinese railway diplomacy asset is being recapitalised.

The busiest container port in Africa and the Mediterranean. The benchmark for African port productivity.

Cotton-to-textile integration; the clearest African example of export-processing infrastructure working.

Renewables-powered and the largest in Africa when commissioned.

Suspended following the 2023 political rupture — a live case study in political-risk crystallisation.

The IDA guarantee that made it bankable is now the template for gas-to-power in West Africa.

A mining company rebuilding national hydro assets to power itself is the DRC energy market in miniature.

Emergency procurement litigated to a standstill; a case study in speed versus process.

Access programmes rarely appear in pipeline databases yet absorb a growing share of concessional flows.

Africa's geothermal core. Kenya remains the only country converting Rift resource at scale.

Anchors the Atlantic Initiative offering Sahel states an ocean outlet.

The anchor of Africa's densest interconnection ecosystem at NAPAfrica.

Ridership beat forecasts — a rarity that makes phase II financeable.

Sector-wide approach pooling nine donors — administratively the most integrated WASH programme in Africa.

Social infrastructure is chronically under-tracked; it barely registers in continental pipeline datasets.

The longest subsea cable ever built; encircles the continent with 46 landings.

Privately master-planned urbanism, with all the governance questions that implies.

Africa's only operating nuclear station, extended to 2044-45. Cheaper than any replacement.

The best-run West African gateway after Tanger Med, and the model for Vridi canal deepening.

Built for volumes that Red Sea security has since removed; transit revenue fell by more than half in 2024.

Chinese vertical integration moved from concept to concentrate in under three years.

Africa's longest-running successful toll-road concession.

Ownership litigation has frozen one of the world's largest hard-rock lithium deposits.

Phase I remains the reference Nigerian IPP; unpaid invoices froze the expansion.

The first Africa-Europe electricity link financed to close. A precedent with more strategic weight than size.

Morocco is building desalination faster than any country outside the Gulf, under sustained drought.

The largest agricultural drainage reuse facility in the world.

Dispatchable solar with a sovereign-guaranteed PPA — the REIPPPP structure at its most durable.

The largest distributed-energy programme in the world by beneficiary count.

Manganese volumes fund the line; passenger service is the political condition attached.

The transmission line arrived two years after the turbines — the canonical evacuation-risk case study.

A commercially credible alternative gateway to landlocked Ethiopia, entangled in recognition politics.

The first serious attempt at sovereign African AI compute capacity.

The highest-ridership BRT in sub-Saharan Africa.

Three-country offtake makes the credit stronger on paper and slower in practice.

Underused capacity looking for cargo; the corridor's problem is demand, not concrete.

Namibia is the world's third uranium producer and the least discussed nuclear supply chain node.

Regional trade is the cheapest capacity in West Africa and the least visible in the data.

Non-revenue water reduction is worth more than new supply, and is far harder to finance.

Africa's first cross-border electrified railway; debt restructured in 2018 and again under the G20 framework.

Post-DP World arbitration, Djibouti's gateway status now rests on Chinese operating capital.

West Africa's deepest berth; transhipment competition with Lomé is now the pricing driver.

The first intercontinental route to run overland through the African interior rather than around it.

A city of seventeen million with intermittent supply in most communes; utility reform precedes any capex.

Classroom construction under CBC reform; per-unit cost data is among the most transparent in the region.

Edge capacity in markets that global operators still treat as too small.

Capacity is no longer the East African bottleneck; dwell time and inland clearance are.

The DFC's largest digital commitment in Africa; power reliability is priced into every megawatt.

Japanese concessional finance quietly dominates West African bulk water.

Drove double-digit price declines in West African transit within eighteen months.

The beneficiation test case: whether battery value-add can be retained at source.

The Gulf of Guinea transhipment hub by default, on the back of a single carrier relationship.

The Mediterranean rim's first open-access cable independent of the big carrier consortia.

Cable landings plus cheap land make Egypt the natural North African interconnection point.

The only non-Chinese natural graphite supply chain of consequence, financed by US strategic lending.

The middle-mile problem in its purest form: cheap bandwidth at the coast, none inland.