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• CONNECTIVITY
• TRANSPORT
• Railway: Saudi Arabian Railways and Italian State Railways sign cooperation agreement
• Railway: Saudi Arabia and Türkiye sign railway cooperation MoU
• Railway: Egypt to upgrade main railway lines to value of EUR690 million
• Railway: IsDB loan of EUR650 million agreed for Ugandan Standard Gauge Railway
• Road: EIB Global supports Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor with EUR150 million for road rehabilitation in Kazakhstan
• Road: EBRD supports road modernization in western Kazakhstan with EUR230 million loan
• Road: IDB Invest supports the modernization of São Borja–Santo Tomé International Bridge between Brazil and Argentina with USD35 million financing
• Road: Standard Chartered supports EUR200 million UKEF-backed financing for Cameroon’s Kribi–Ebolowa road upgrade
• Airport: Uzbekistan signs PPP agreement for international airport development
• Airport: Kenya signs USD1.2 billion agreement with China Road and Bridge Corporation to expand Nairobi airport to be financed by TDB and AFC
• Airport: AfDB approves EUR156 million to upgrade Uganda’s Arua Airport to boost regional trade and tourism
• Airport: DFC signs USD100 million financing plan for Cambodia airport
• Multimodal: IDB supports modernization of Les Cayes Airport and NR2 road in Haiti with USD70 million
• ENERGY
• Power pool: CDB launches USD1.5 million technical assistance project to assess Caribbean grid interconnection and renewable energy scaling
• Storage: ADB supports Cambodia’s renewable energy transition’s battery storage project with USD63 million finance package
• Power pool: World Bank approved USD1.6 billion financing for Regional Energy Transmission,Trade and Decarbonization program for Eastern Africa
• Distributed renewable energy: World Bank supports expansion of Türkiye’s distributed renewable energy market with EUR400 million financing to two Turkish banks
• Grid: EIB, Egypt, and EU join forces on EUR690 million clean-energy grid investment
• IEA-IRENA-UN-World Bank-WHO report: Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report
• DIGITAL
• ADB issues USD100 million inaugural digital solutions bond to open new digital connectivity pathways in Asia and the Pacific
• Data center: IFC partners with Indian Sify to support expansion of data centers and strengthen digital economy through USD371 million sustainability-linked package
• Data center: Selangor Industrial and DC Union partner on data center in Malaysia
• Data center: Malaysian property developer Malton inks MoU with American Ricloud AI to build AI compute centers in Malaysia
• Data center: CAF II Invests in Racks Central to advance Southeast Asia Data Center Corridor
• TRADE AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION
• Corridor: World Bank adds USD45 million new financing to strengthen Djibouti’s Regional Economic Corridor
• Corridor: World Bank approves USD200 million for Togo’s logistics competitiveness by modernizing its transport infrastructure
• Corridor: World Bank approves USD1.12 billion program to modernize the Douala–Bangui Economic Corridor in Central Africa
• Afreximbank report: Leveraging Geopolitics for Trade and Industrialization in Global Africa
• Afreximbank report: African Trade Heatmaps 2026
• ODI Global report: Implementation of the AfCFTA Protocol on Investment: a stocktake of promotion and facilitation provisions and potential effects on textiles and garments value chains
• ODI Global report: Undertaking AfCFTA gap analyses: what are we learning?

• QUALITY
• CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT
• GEF approves USD4 million grant for AfDB to accelerate the Great Green Wall initiative in Southern Africa
• Vulnerability to Viability: New compact will unlock affordable finance for climate-vulnerable countries
• IFC-AXA Climate-Scientific Climate Ratings report: Low Cost, High Yield: The Adaptation and Resilience Investment Opportunity for Infrastructure
• o PROCUREMENT, ANTICORRUPTION, TRANSPARENCY, AND DISCLOSURE
• CMI U4 Anticorruption Resource Center article: Re-centering anticorruption in resource frontiers

• PARTNERSHIP
• MCDF NEWS AND ACTIVITIES
• 2026 MCDF PPP Hot Topics Workshop Series Session 2 focuses on innovative transaction designs
• INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES, FUNDS, AND INITIATIVES
• Zafiri announces USD176 million commercial launch to accelerate energy access via the private sector across sub-Saharan Africa
• IFIS TOGETHER
• EBRD, EIB, and EU support Tunisia’s energy transition and resilience with EUR67 million package
• IFIS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRY FINANCIERS
• ADB supports Converse Bank with USD15 million financing in Armenia and İLBANK with USD175 million loan in Türkiye
• EBRD is providing USD170 million package to Khan Bank in Mongolia and USD50 million to SQB in Uzbekistan
• EIB Global signs EUR50 million investment agreement with Wema Bank in Nigeria and USD200 million loan agreement with Development Bank of Nigeria
• AfDB approves USD100 million to support EBID’s activities in West Africa region
• Afreximbank signs USD500 million term loan facility with the Central Bank of Tunisia to support the realization of strategic goals
• IDB Invest supports Banco Macro with up to USD200 million financing line to expand financing for SMEs in Argentina
• DEVELOPING COUNTRY FINANCIERS
• Development Bank of Kazakhstan signs USD922 million international financing to develop Kazakhstan’s transport and logistics potential
• OTHER NEWS AND ANALYSES ON PARTNER IFIS
• Uzbekistan joins NDB
• AFC and leading Italian institutions sign strategic cooperation agreements at AFC-Italy forum to mobilize capital and accelerate industrial development across Africa
• HARNESSING PRIVATE FINANCE
• Blue Dot Network interview: Building Trust in Global Infrastructure: A Conversation with Christopher Reeves
• GFANZ-BII-BCG report: Scaling Blended Finance II: Optimizing Catalytic Capital in Blended Finance Funds

• UPCOMING EVENTS
• MCDF
• 2026 Workshop Series on Public-Private Partnership Hot Topics - Workshop 3: Data Center PPPs
• OTHERS
• Public Debt Management Conference 2026
• 8th World Bank/ ODI Global / IFS Public Finance Conference
• Africa PPP Infrastructure Finance, Investment, & Partnerships Summit (Africa PPP) 2026: Building Africa’s Prosperity: Transformative Infrastructure, Investment and Partnerships to Accelerate Economic Development
• World Bank Group Land Conference 2027