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AfDB, EIB lend Mauritania $275m for railway upgrade

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28th November 2025

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The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) signed a financing package worth $275-million to help Mauritania upgrade its main railway corridor.

Under the agreement, the AfDB will contribute $150-million and the EIB $125-million to modernise the railway linking iron ore mines in Zouerate, in northeastern Mauritania, to the Atlantic port of Nouadhibou, the lenders said in a statement.

The deal, guaranteed by the European Union, was signed on the sidelines of the Africa Investment Forum in Rabat, the statement added.

The financing will enable Mauritania's national industrial and mining company (SNIM) to rehabilitate the existing railway and build 42 km of new track to connect future mining sites at El Aouj and Atomai, it said.

It will also allow SNIM, the country's largest employer, to acquire locomotives, wagons and maintenance equipment, it added.

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