We find, structure, and oversee investments in Africa for Gulf institutional capital. The opportunity is real. The intermediaries who understand both sides are scarce.
Get in touchSaudi Arabia committed over forty billion dollars to sub-Saharan Africa at the 2024 FII New Africa Summit. SALIC bought 80% of Olam Agri for $1.8 billion. ACWA Power is building $7 billion worth of renewables on the continent. The money is moving.
But the infrastructure between Gulf capital and African opportunity is thin. Most Saudi and Emirati investors have no networks on the continent, no way to distinguish a serious project from a government wish list, no local partners they can trust with their money and their name. We sit between the two sides, do the work neither can do alone, and put together the deals that would not otherwise exist.
We produce proprietary research on African markets. Who controls what, which regulations actually apply, where the bankable projects are. The kind of information you cannot get from a desk in Riyadh.
We find investment opportunities across Africa, vet the local partners, run initial feasibility, and bring the deal to Gulf capital already structured. By the time an investor sees it, the groundwork is done.
Market entry strategy, partner identification, due diligence coordination, regulatory navigation. We advise Gulf institutional investors through every stage of deploying into African frontier markets.
Frontier investments run over years. We monitor performance, manage local partner relationships, and maintain the government access that keeps deals on track after the cheque clears.
Forty-one billion dollars committed at a single summit. SALIC buying Olam. ACWA building power plants from Senegal to South Africa. This is a structural shift in where Saudi money goes, and Africa sits at the centre of it.
Five million head of livestock cross from the Horn to Gulf ports each year. The trade works. The cold chain, veterinary certification, and processing infrastructure behind it barely exists. That is where the money should go.
Somaliland has had peaceful democratic transitions for thirty years while being written off as too risky. Ethiopia has more consumers than Saudi Arabia. The standard risk frameworks do not fit this region. Here is what does.
Abdirahman grew up between the Gulf and the Horn of Africa. He has lived and worked in Saudi Arabia and Oman, and has spent years on the ground across the Horn, East Africa, and Nigeria. He founded African Corridor Advisory because he kept seeing the same problem from both sides: Gulf investors with capital and mandate but no trusted route into African markets, and African opportunities that never reached the right desks in Riyadh, Dubai, or Doha. He knows who to call in Hargeisa and who to call in Riyadh.
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We work with a small number of institutional investors and development finance institutions looking at Africa. If that describes you, we would like to hear from you.
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