At the end of June 2025, Luanda was the place to be for investors, entrepreneurs, industrialists, and businessmen and women, including Porteo Group, which continues to expand its presence. And for good reason: the Angolan capital hosted the 17th edition of the U.S-Africa Business Summit from June 22 to 25, 2025.
At this Africa Business Summit, Angola highlighted investment opportunities in the energy, infrastructure, agriculture and technology sectors, while strengthening economic ties between Africa and the United States.
This major event was held on the sidelines of the country’s 50th anniversary of independence. Furthermore, the U.S.-Africa Business Summit takes place in the symbolic context of Angola’s assumption of the presidency of the African Union.
Porteo, a construction group, whose CEO is Hassan Dakhlallah, made a positive contribution to this event, which brought together more than 1,500 decision-makers from the political, economic, and financial spheres of the United States and Africa.
By travelling to Luanda, the group’s delegation, including Antoine Sarkis, Director of the Industrial Division, and Ibrahim Kerim, Chief of Staff to the Group’s President, prepared to assert the group’s leadership in the strategic infrastructure sector in Africa.
Hassan Dakhlallah’s team was also tasked with strengthening partnerships with institutions such as DFC, USTDA, AfDB, and Exim Bank. In these areas, the group intends to contribute its expertise through projects on the continent.
Another key focus, which consisted of promoting the diversification of its activities into agribusiness, data centers, and logistics corridors, was also successfully implemented: a partnership between Porteo Group and Omatapalo, an Angolan construction and agribusiness giant, is also in the pipeline.
Hassan Dakhlallah emphasised the importance of including African developers in financing schemes.
According to him, “as long as local developers are not part of the equation, there will always be a gap between political vision, available financing, and concrete impact.”
This summit ostensibly enabled a strategic meeting that confirmed the new direction taken by this rapidly expanding pan-African player’s investments on the continent, all of which strengthens African integration.
With over 3,000km of infrastructure delivered, a project pipeline worth USD 5.8 billion, and a presence in six African countries, the group embodies this new generation of African economic players: integrated, reliable, and sovereign.
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