尼日利亚富豪托尼·埃卢梅卢是考虑在西非推出150亿美元投资项目管道的团队成员之一，以帮助缓解该地区的基础设施赤字。
Nigerian tycoon Tony Elumelu is part of a team considering a $15 billion pipeline of investment projects across West Africa to help curb the region’s infrastructure deficit.
埃卢梅卢是继承者控股有限公司董事长、西非一体化与投资峰会联席主席，他与团队合作，在塞拉利昂11月举行的首届地区峰会之前，识别出可向贷款方提出的项目。
Elumelu, chairman of Heirs Holdings Ltd. and co-chair of the West Africa Integration and Investment Summit, worked with the team to identify projects that can be put in front of lenders ahead of an inaugural regional summit in Sierra Leone in November.
埃卢梅卢在回复电子邮件提问时表示，资金优先领域包括能源、贸易和工业化、战略矿产、农业企业和数字化转型。他还说，非洲联合银行、非洲进出口银行、非洲金融公司和非洲50基金等机构已被安排审查这些交易。
The funding priorities are energy, trade and industrialization, strategic minerals, agribusiness and digital transformation, Elumelu said in response to questions by email. United Bank for Africa, African Export-Import Bank, Africa Finance Corporation and Africa50 were among those lined up to review the deals, he said.
“我们收到了170个项目提案，并从十多个国家中挑选出价值超过100亿美元的26个真实项目，”西非一体化与投资峰会特别代表坎德赫·科勒赫·尤姆克拉在峰会组织者发送的单独声明中表示。“我们预计该项目组合在下个月峰会期间将达到150亿美元或更多。”
“We received 170 project submissions and have selected 26 real projects worth more than $10 billion from over ten countries,” Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, special envoy for WAIIS, said in a separate statement emailed by the summit organizers. “We expect that portfolio to reach $15 billion or more,” at the time of summit next month, he said.
该峰会由塞拉利昂总统朱利叶斯·马阿达·比奥发起和召集，埃卢梅卢表示，峰会将加速该地区优选领域项目的资本动员。
The summit, initiated and convened by Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio, will accelerate capital mobilization for projects, in the region’s choice sectors, Elumelu said.