Stenn International, a UK-based trade finance provider, has closed on an upsizing of its asset-backed financing programme with M&G Investments

The African Development Bank has approved a €48.82 million loan for the €136.69 million Desert to Power Yeleen solar programme in Burkina Faso

The Islamic Development Bank has listed a €1 billion green sukuk on the Nasdaq Dubai – the proceeds of which will be funnelled into climate change and green projects in the bank's 57 member states

The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development has signed a $97.1 million loan with the government of Bahrain for its 400kV transmission development project

Egypt's El Sewedy Electric has signed the EPC contract with South Sudan’s Ministry of Energy and Dams for a $45 million, 20MW solar PV and energy storage project

The Africa Finance Corporation has agreed to make a $50 million equity investment in Danakali, the Australian mining company developing the Colluli potash mine in Eritrea alongside state-owned Eritrean Mining Company

The Macquarie-led VEENIX consortium has reached financial close on the €850 million A9 Badhoevedorp-Holendrecht road PPP in the Netherlands

Kacific Broadband Satellites International has reached financial close on a $50 million project to provide affordable satellite-based, high-speed broadband internet access to Asia Pacific markets

Infrastructure investment platform Africa50 has completed an equity investment into US-based power developer Genser Energy's Ghanaian independent power producer

ADNOC has signed with K-Sure a memorandum of understanding to cover a $3 billion debt package to support its overseas energy and infrastructure projects over the next three years

Africa-focused power and water developer Eranove is nearing financial close on the $138 million, 65MW Kékéli combined-cycle gas turbine project in Togo – with a significant portion of the debt signed in local currency, a rarity for the region

The Africa Finance Corporation has issued a Swfr200 million Reg S Only bond on the Swiss Stock Exchange – its second Swiss franc bond

Nordic Investment Bank has agreed to provide a €30 million loan to Norwegian power company Sogn og Fjordane Energi for the construction of a new 47MW hydropower plant in Østerbø, Norway

Africa-focused power grid developer and investor Gridworks has completed its first transaction – a R106.7 million equity investment in South African renewables company Mettle Solar Investments

The African Development Bank has approved a $210 million loan package for the government of Nigeria to fund the Nigeria Transmission Expansion Project – part of the $1.6 billion Transmission Rehabilitation and Expansion Programme

The Asian Development Bank’s board of governors has elected Masatsugu Asakawa as the new president of the Manila-based multilateral bank

The Japanese government is pledging $3 billion to fund infrastructure in ASEAN member countries

Singapore-based InfraCo Asia, French utility EDF and local microgrids developer SolaRiseSys have launched construction for a pilot rural electrification project in Myanmar – the Kha Laing Microgrid

The European Investment Bank has approved of a $12 million loan for Fenix International’s $25 million roll-out of off-grid solar home systems in Uganda