Africa Finance Corporation receives 13 awards for energy, transport and financing transactions

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) announced on 22 June 2026 that it had received 13 honours at the EMEA Finance Awards for transactions spanning energy, transport, industry and capital markets. The recognition covered individual projects as well as funding structures used by the institution to mobilise long-term capital.

The project-finance awards included transactions involving Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals, Nigeria’s Kano–Maradi railway, a 540-kilometre road programme in Côte d’Ivoire and the Cabeolica wind and battery storage expansion in Cape Verde. Other recognised projects were Nigeria LNG financing, the Baomahun gold mine in Sierra Leone and a 250-megawatt combined-cycle gas power plant in Senegal.

AFC said the awards also recognised its own financing and market-access arrangements. These included a US$1.5 billion syndicated loan, an AED937.5 million sustainability-linked loan, a US$400 million Commodity Murabaha facility and a US$500 million perpetual hybrid bond. A guarantee connected to Angola’s ¥40 billion Samurai bond was also recognised, while AFC was named Best Borrower in the EMEA region.

Those transactions illustrate how infrastructure development in Africa depends on several types of capital: project loans that support specific assets, trade and working-capital facilities, bonds issued to investors and instruments that help allocate risk between borrowers and funders.

AFC President and Chief Executive Samaila Zubairu linked the awards to the corporation’s work in connecting infrastructure, industrial activity and access to markets. The award tally is evidence of external industry recognition; it does not by itself establish the construction status, returns or economic impact of every named project.

The announcement is part of the June 2026 awards record. Any later project completion, revised financing terms or operational performance would require separate verification.

Source: Africa Finance Corporation, announcement dated 22 June 2026. Featured photograph: official AFC image from the awards event.