Africa50 Sets New Benchmark in Infrastructure Financing, Surpasses $1.4B in Managed Assets

By APO Group On Aug 13, 2025

Eight-Year Journey from Single Employee to 100-Strong Team Managing $8 Billion Portfolio Value Demonstrates Africa’s Infrastructure Investment Potential.
Africa50 symbolises the new Africa; an Africa that depends on itself, promotes cooperation between Africans, and builds shared prosperity, says President of Mozambique

Africa50 (www.Africa50.com), the investment platform established by African governments and the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org), said on Wednesday it has surpassed $1.4 billion in managed assets, marking an extraordinary transformation from one staff member to a continental powerhouse driving Africa’s infrastructure revolution.

The disclosure was made at the General Shareholders Meeting of the platform in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, attended by the country’s President, Daniel Chapo, President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, and numerous dignitaries and representatives of development partners.

President Chapo highlighted the shared vision that led the country to join Africa50 in 2024. “Africa50 is a key partner to help us implement this vision [to become a reference country in logistics and power,” he said. “We are transforming ideas into projects to provide employment for the youth and more revenues for the government to invest in economic, social, and sustainable development.”

He commended the leadership of Dr Adesina, who is also Chairman of the Board of Africa50, and said: “Africa50 symbolises the new Africa; an Africa that depends on itself, promotes cooperation between Africans and builds shared prosperity.”

From humble beginnings to continental clout

Dr Adesina told the gathering that the total value of Africa50’s portfolio companies now exceeds $8 billion, underscoring the platform’s pivotal role in addressing Africa’s $170 billion annual infrastructure financing gap.

“Within eight years, Africa50 has become a leader on infrastructure financing in Africa, demonstrating creativity and innovation that transforms how we approach continental development,” the Bank President said. “From just one staff member when we started, Africa50 now employs 100 exceptional professionals and serves 37 shareholders across 33 countries and four institutions.”

The platform’s remarkable growth is reflected in its Africa Infrastructure Acceleration Fund, which successfully mobilized $275 million from over 20 African institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and insurance companies. This, the Africa50 Chairman said, represents the most substantial institutional investor confidence ever in Africa’s infrastructure opportunities.

Alain Ebobissé, CEO of Africa50, said, “The truth is this: the solutions to Africa’s infrastructure gap are already before us. Africa can and must lead the efforts to close the infrastructure gap in our continent, working with our non-African partners. Africa50 was built for moments like these: We are agile. We are responsive. We are focused on achieving results with speed and at scale.”

The 2025 General Shareholders Meeting also provided Africa50 an opportunity to formalize its growing influence through two strategic Memorandums of Understanding:

MOU with Electricidade de Mozambique for the development of three transmission lines under an Independent Power Transmission (IPT) framework. This will help support the government’s ambition to achieve universal electricity access by 2030 and become a significant exporter of power across the Southern African Development Community.
MOU with the Ministry of Communications and Digital Transformation, to build a new data centre facility in Maputo and modernize the existing one.

Africa50 also sealed two significant pan-African deals, including the first close of the Alliance for Green Infrastructure in Africa (AGIA), an initiative envisioned by Dr. Akinwumi Adesina. The AGIA deal anchors the first close of $115 million for Africa’s leading green infrastructure initiative.