Financing

Pan-African multilateral investor and lead developer of the Zambia–Lobito rail project; signed concession agreements with Angola and Zambia in September 2024.

Continental development finance institution; joined partners to raise financing for the $1.6bn multinational Lobito corridor programme with a planned ~$500m contribution.

South African DFI; provided $200m of the $753m Lobito Atlantic Railway financing package.

U.S. development finance agency; signed a direct loan of up to $553m for Lobito Atlantic Railway port and rail rehabilitation in December 2025.

French development agency; €150m for corridor water supply co-financing.

Italy's development finance institution; reported adding ~€300m ($320m) to Zambia–Lobito rail financing (April 2026).

EU strategic infrastructure programme mobilising more than €2bn along the Lobito Corridor across transport, agriculture, skills and water.

EU bank; €100m for corridor water supply co-financing and $52.5m into AFC's $750m Infrastructure Climate Resilient Fund.

U.S. export credit agency; $872.2m loan facility for two Sun Africa solar plants in Angola within the corridor package.

Private-sector arm of the World Bank Group; reported planning a $40m financing for Angolan food group Carrinho (May 2026).

$2m grant to AFC for Zambia–Lobito environmental and social studies (September 2024).

$300m for water supply systems in three corridor provinces, per the European Commission's corridor programme page.