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Projects

National programmes in Africa, with partners across the world

Our engagements

Carousel Finance Africa structures and leads national development programmes: urban extensions and new cities, transport corridors, special economic zones and bilateral sovereign investment funds. The programmes described here are those our principals have chosen to make public.

Many of our engagements are confidential. We do not publish the value of a programme, the names of counterparties or the terms of our mandates.

Where we work

Five programmes, and the partners behind them

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Partner geographies
United States · European Union and United Kingdom · France · Benelux · Japan · Gulf states
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Countries of experience

Public programmes

Sectors

25+

Years of experience

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

Nine strategic cities, led by Kinshasa and Lubumbashi

Flagship programme

National Urbanisation Programme

Urban Development · Mandated

A national programme to plan, finance and build the next generation of Congolese cities, from a planned extension of Kinshasa to new economic districts for Lubumbashi, on the foundation of a national urban digital twin.

A planned extension of Kinshasa
New economic districts for Lubumbashi and the strategic cities
A national urban digital twin of nine cities
Modernisation of the existing cities

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Further programmes

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Structuring

Democratic Republic of the Congo · Transport and Logistics

Banana-Kinshasa Atlantic Corridor

A road and rail corridor of some 700 kilometres from the deep-water port of Banana on the Atlantic to Kinshasa by way of Matadi, with special economic zones along its length.

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Pre-development

Democratic Republic of the Congo · Special Economic Zones

Banana Atlantic City

A new industrial city and special economic zone on the Atlantic coast, beside the country's only deep-water port, powered by hydroelectricity from Inga and built to process the region's minerals at home. A programme of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the United States.

In preparation

Angola · Sovereign Investment

UAE-Angola Sectoral Funds

Five investment vehicles, one for each of oil and gas, mining, digital infrastructure, agro-industry, and water and energy, structured under the framework for investment agreed between the United Arab Emirates and Angola.

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In preparation

Madagascar · Sovereign Investment

Oman-Madagascar Sovereign Fund

A bilateral sovereign investment programme between the Sultanate of Oman and the Republic of Madagascar in mining, agribusiness, energy, fisheries and urban development.

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