“We invest more in Africa than our peers” – Jeune Afrique

With nearly £7.5 billion (€8.5 billion) in assets, largely invested on the continent, British International Investment (formerly CDC Group) is one of the most powerful and oldest private sector development finance institutions on the continent.

Three years after our last major interview with its managing director, Nick O’Donohoe, in the first weeks of the Covid-19 crisis, the international and African financial and economic environment remains in turmoil. The anticipated recovery on the continent after the health crisis has been deeply compromised by geopolitical, inflationary, budgetary crises and tensions on the main devises African.