Your Majesty King Mohamed VI (May God Help and Bless Him),
Your Excellency President Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana,
Your Excellency, Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States of America—thank you for joining us by video,
Your Excellency Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Morocco,
Your Excellencies, Honourable ministers, ladies, and gentlemen,

African Development Bank Group President and Chairman of the Africa50 Board of Directors, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has highlighted the crucial role that Africa50 is playing to help bridge Africa’s infrastructure financing gap.
Adesina was speaking at the opening session of Africa50’s general shareholders meeting in Marrakech on Tuesday. He told delegates that Africa50 had invested $5 billion in 16 private-sector focused investments in six years.

At the start of the year, the German economy was showing signs of overcoming the problems that had capped growth in 2021. Supply bottlenecks that had hampered manufacturing were easing and services were opening up again as the country emerged from a severe winter wave of the Delta variant.

D20 Long-term Investors Club (D20-LTIC) and EIB continue cooperation on leveraging private sector participation in sustainable infrastructure investment

The Comoros Energy Sector Support Project has helped improve the country’s power grid.
Approved in 2013, the project aims to respond to a twofold challenge in the energy sector in the Comoros. At the time, electricity access was around 50% of the population, and unevenly split between the three islands (10% in Moheli, 50% in Anjouan and 60% in Grande Comore).