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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.orgThis report is based on India-Africa trade data, analyzing the competitive landscape of major trading partners such as China, the United States, and the UAE, and exploring investment opportunities and growth drivers in key sectors like construction machinery, petroleum products, and pharmaceuticals.
This paper deeply analyzes how sustainable development policies promote the industrial structure upgrading of resource-based cities through mechanisms such as green technological innovation, human capital, and foreign direct investment (FDI), based on case studies of China's Sustainable Development Planning for Resource-Based Cities (SDPRC). It analyzes how capital is driven to transform through policy.
Analyze how Middle Eastern and Gulf investment funds can fill the infrastructure financing gap in Africa, focusing on investment flows and capital logic in the energy, logistics, and critical minerals sectors.
Analyze the flow of China's FDI in Africa, its energy investment structure, and its impact on African development and the global energy transition, focusing on the capital logic of resource extraction, green energy, and infrastructure financing.
Analyzing how Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds (GCC SWFs) are shifting from traditional Western investments to Asia and seeking strategic investment opportunities in Africa, exploring long-term trends in global capital flows.
This paper analyzes the integration of the African region not as a linear, pyramid-shaped structure from the perspective of function-space integration, but as a network composed of modular connections such as transport corridors, trade networks, and digital platforms. It explores how capital can invest in these multi-dimensional connection opportunities.
Analyze how risk points from physical completion to actual operation in the construction of AI data centers affect private capital's credit decisions, and explore the fundamental changes in financing structure and investment logic amid the surge in AI infrastructure.
Analyze 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.