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AME Trade 2025: A Year of Impactful Connections – Investment, Energy, Minerals, and Infrastructure for Africa’s Next Chapter

From Kitwe to Maputo, Marrakech to Dakar and Mauritius to Windhoek, 2025 showed what’s possible when Africa’s public and private sector leaders meet with one aim: turning opportunity into execution.

In 2025, AME Trade’s portfolio of platforms – powered by the passion of a truly pan African and multilingual  team – brought together ministers, investors, developers and industry leaders across mining, energy, infrastructure, and capital markets, not only to discuss the next wave of growth, but to shape the partnerships and frameworks needed to deliver it.

Across the year, conversations consistently converged around a key set of defining realities: Africa’s strategic minerals are rising in geopolitical importance; the energy transition is accelerating investment and reshaping supply chains; infrastructure delivery is the practical bottleneck; and domestic capital mobilisation is becoming as important as external funding. The strongest message of all? Value must be created locally and at scale through regional collaboration.

2025 by the Numbers

The breadth of participation across AME Trade’s network in 2025 speaks for itself:

Taken together across these platforms and others, AME Trade convened over 9900 participants and 450+ speakers while showcasing more than 400 exhibitors — a practical demonstration of the convening power required to move markets forward, and most critically engaging over 100 local suppliers creating direct and indirect jobs and opportunities for local SMEs, under scoring the importance of MICE for economic development across the continent.

Mining and Energy: Industrialisation, Local Value and Regional Integration

In Zambia, ZIMEC 2025 was officially opened by the Minister of Mines and Minerals Development on behalf of the President and showcased Zambia’s resurgence as a top global mining and energy investment destination. Beyond strong attendance and exhibition participation, the event demonstrated its deal-enabling role by hosting the signing of key energy sector agreements between the governments of Zambia and Mozambique. ZIMEC also extended learning beyond the conference room through an exclusive mine site visit to Mopani Copper Mines.

In Mozambique, MMEC 2025 was officially opened under the high patronage of the President and highlighted practical momentum through the signing of a public-private collaboration agreement between Petromoc and Aiteo to construct a petroleum refinery, alongside regional cooperation accords including a Mozambique–Zambia cross-border petroleum pipeline and Mozambique–Zimbabwe energy collaboration. The programme also reinforced the enabling environment for investment, including an expert roundtable to inform Mozambique’s ongoing revamp of sector laws and an ESG-focused technical workshop in partnership with industry institutions.

In Morocco, IMC 2025 positioned strategic and critical metals within a wider industrial and geopolitical context, with the event emphasising local value creation and continental integration. Notably, the programme highlighted the Marrakech Declaration, the OTC Corridor (Origination, Transit, Certification) and the emergence of an African ESG framework, underlining the push towards traceability, competitiveness, and shared standards.

Officially opened by the President of the Republic, SIM Senegal 2025, reinforced the growing continental focus on sovereignty, transparency, good governance, and local processing. Its scale and the diversity of participants, speakers and exhibitors underline the increasing regional importance of West Africa’s extractives dialogue and dealmaking.

Mining on Top Africa 2025 held its 8th edition in Paris and reinforced a clear shift in Africa’s mining agenda: sustainability, sovereignty and local transformation are now central to how investment, governance and partnerships are being shaped. Speakers framed ESG as a market-access and investment-security requirement with stronger community inclusion, water protection and long-term benefit-sharing emerging as part of “what good looks like” for responsible mining. It also spotlighted the enabling systems that unlock deal flow: modern geodata and cadastre infrastructure, and deliberate capacity-building to move from extraction into value-adding and processing.

Infrastructure and Investment: Bankable Projects and Capital Mobilisation

If 2025 proved anything, it is that infrastructure delivery remains the hinge on which growth turns. Africa PPP 2025 framed the challenge directly, noting that Africa faces an estimated US$100bn annual infrastructure gap, and positioning the event as a space focused on “execution over dialogue”. A central objective was improving the quality and pipeline of bankable projects including through an expert led technical workshop, while aligning the public and private sectors on feasible delivery models with 30+ projects profiled at the event.

PIAfrica 2025, hosted in Mauritius, continued to deepen the conversation around pension funds, alternative investments, and private-market strategies for long-term African growth, convening delegates from 20 countries and delivering a programme of expert-led sessions and panels. In short: Africa’s investment agenda increasingly looks inward as well as outward — how domestic institutional capital is structured, deployed, and governed is becoming central to unlocking real-economy outcomes.

SENHABITAT 2025 held in Senegal positioned housing and urban development as a core infrastructure priority, not just “building”, but a question of inclusion, mobility, territorial cohesion, and long-term sustainability. The event created a practical platform for public and private actors to align on delivery. Discussions highlighted the need to speed up and coordinate land and housing delivery through clearer legal frameworks for urban renewal and preferential financing. Other actionable priorities that surfaced included land reform, scaling cooperative housing, expanding rental mechanisms, digitising cadastral plans, and creating a “one-stop shop” for diaspora real-estate investment.

Looking Ahead: 2026 Momentum

The AME Trade story builds on the remarkably successful 2025, carrying forward into 2026 with confirmed dates already in place for flagship platforms including:

Whether you are seeking market entry, partnership development, project financing, policy alignment, supplier opportunities or investment visibility, AME Trade’s platforms remain built for one thing: turning strategic conversations into measurable progress.

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