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December 2026 / CICB / Bamako

Mali’s national investment forum

Convened by API-Mali, Forum Mali Kura brings together investors, project owners, institutions and experts around more than 50 investment projects across six priority sectors. Two days of plenaries, panels and qualified business meetings.

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Aerial view of a multi-level interchange in Bamako, with cars, buses and motorcycles on the ramps, a large beige administrative campus nearby, and the Niger river and city skyline on the horizon. — API-Mali
Two days, December 2026 · Opening

Exact dates will be announced by API-Mali.

Partners

Supporting the forum

Public institutions, companies and technical and financial partners support the organisation of Forum Mali Kura. Three partnership tiers are open to organisations wishing to be associated with it.

Gold partner slot
Silver partner slot
Bronze partner slot
Partnership tier

No partner is published at this stage. The official list will be supplied by API-Mali.

Supporting the forum

Key figures

The forum in figures

1 000Expected participants
400International delegates
50+Investment projects
6Priority sectors
400Business meetings
2Days of programme

Planning figures taken from the forum’s terms of reference.

Priority sectors

Six sectors, one standard

The programme, the project portfolio and the matchmaking recommendations are all organised around six priority sectors. Every participant declares their sectors of interest at registration.

Six sectors, one standard

Rice harvest in a paddy field: seven men and women feed sheaves into a motorised thresher, straw flying in the air, with tarpaulins and baskets of grain on the ground. — API-Mali

Agriculture

Cereals, cotton, livestock and fisheries: irrigation, mechanisation, local processing and the structuring of agro-industrial value chains.

Priority sectors
A loaded haul truck climbing a graded ramp between the pale pink banded benches of an open-pit mine in Guinea, raising a cloud of dust. — Photo: darrylkeith, "Truck hauling ore from Karta Pit, SMD Crew Gold", via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

Mining

Exploration, extraction and downstream processing of mineral resources: operating partnerships, mining services, refining and local content.

Open-pit gold mine, Guinea.

Priority sectors
Overhead view of three long rows of blue photovoltaic panels on red laterite soil, with a technician cleaning a panel between two rows. — Mohamed Dayfour / API-Mali

Energy

Power generation, transmission and distribution: solar, hybridisation of isolated grids, energy efficiency and rural access.

Priority sectors
A technician in a white T-shirt dressing white Ethernet cables into a blue network switch mounted in a black rack, green link lights on the ports. — Photo: Field Engineer, "Electronics engineer fixing cables on server", via Pexels, Pexels License (https://www.pexels.com/license/)

Technology

Digital and telecommunications: mobile financial services, software platforms, connectivity, data centres and skills.

Priority sectors
Aerial view of Bamako’s ACI 2000 business district, centred on a modern bronze-glass building surrounded by low-rise office blocks. — API-Mali

Finance

Banking, insurance, private equity and development finance institutions: debt instruments, equity and guarantees.

Priority sectors
Close-up of a welder in dark blue overalls, mask and leather gloves striking an arc on a steel workpiece in a workshop, with sparks and smoke around him. — API-Mali

Industry

Manufacturing, textiles, engineering and construction materials: industrial zones, subcontracting and moving up the value chain.

Priority sectors

Why attend

What the forum delivers

Forum Mali Kura is built as a working instrument: prepare your meetings before the event, hold them on site, and follow them through afterwards.

What the forum delivers

01

Meet the right counterparts

A B2B and B2G matchmaking algorithm scores the compatibility between profiles and gives every participant their ten most relevant matches, together with an explanation of what they have in common.

02

Access the project portfolio

More than 50 sector project files set out location, funding sought, stage of development and project owner. Multi-criteria search isolates the opportunities that match your mandate.

03

Engage with institutions

B2G meetings open direct access to ministries and public agencies on public-private partnerships, concessions and public contracts.

04

Follow a structured programme

Plenaries, panels and masterclasses over two days, filterable by theme, session type and language, each with a detail page and downloadable documents.

05

Take part remotely

Plenary sessions are streamed live with online questions. Replay is available 24 hours after each session.

06

Prepare and navigate your visit

The official mobile app carries the digital badge, the personal agenda and the CICB floor plan. Badge and agenda remain available without a network connection.

Matchmaking

Prepared meetings, not chance encounters

At registration, every participant completes a structured profile: target sectors, investment range, geographies and financing type. The algorithm cross-references these profiles and ranks matches by score.

Four men in suits seated around a wooden meeting table in discussion, a wall screen showing a welcome slide behind them. — API-Mali
Two men shake hands while jointly holding a white envelope in a wood-panelled official meeting room, with flags and a framed official portrait on the wall. — API-Mali

How the score is calculated

  • 40 %

    Sector match

    Project sectors compared with the sectors targeted by the investor.

  • 25 %

    Financial fit

    Funding sought compared with the declared investment range.

  • 20 %

    Profile complementarity

    Project owner with investor, institution with expert.

  • 10 %

    Shared geography

    Countries of operation compared with target markets.

  • 5 %

    Common availability

    Agenda compatibility across the two days of the forum.

From request to meeting

  • 01

    Request

    You select a profile, propose three time slots and attach a message.

  • 02

    Acceptance

    Your counterpart reviews your profile and compatibility score, then selects a slot.

  • 03

    Room allocated

    The system automatically books a B2B room at the CICB and blocks the slot in both agendas.

  • 04

    Reminders

    A reminder 24 hours before, then 15 minutes before, by notification and SMS.

  • 05

    Follow-up

    After the meeting, both parties record the investment intent and the agreed next step.

System capacity

400Meetings over 2 days
15Dedicated rooms
30Minutes per slot
5Minutes of turnaround
Understand matchmaking

Previous editions

An annual API-Mali convening

Forum Mali Kura is part of the cycle of convenings run by API-Mali with investors, the diaspora and Mali’s private sector.

Large auditorium stage: a speaker at the lectern in front of a very wide LED screen, three panellists seated in white armchairs at left and press cameras in the foreground. — API-Mali
2nd International Diaspora Forum, Bamako, July 2026.
Stage of a large wood-panelled auditorium with a giant LED screen framed in the colours of the Malian flag, two panellists in white armchairs and a speaker at the lectern. — API-Mali
Malian Diaspora International Forum, Bamako.
Audience seated in a red-carpeted conference hall, delegates wearing lanyards, a speaker at the lectern and a photographer at the back of the room. — API-Mali
A convening organised by API-Mali.

The images shown are from earlier institutional convenings and are identified as such.

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