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Uganda's Soroti Solar Facility is celebrated as a successful way to quickly develop renewables in Africa, but investors wonder whether it can be replicated.

We get a brief on the UK’s possible relationships with the lender and the European Fund for Strategic Investments once the country is now longer an EU member.

Following its $28bn merger with Spectra Energy last autumn, the Canadian energy company bought out all outstanding public shares of Midcoast Energy Partners.

The firm’s agreement with the French government comes just a few days after it received a €491m investment from majority shareholder Abertis.

Along with making its fourth infrastructure investment, Chicago Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund has increased its target allocation to the sector from 2% to 4%.

The Swiss bank has laid out ambitious AUM targets for infrastructure and private equity after combining the asset classes with its bigger real estate business to form the Real Estate and Private Markets platform.

Europe’s busiest port has also received financing from Lloyds and RBS just over four years after its privatisation was blocked by the government.

The German firm has committed $1.5bn to toll roads in the past year and a half.

The US fund manager’s third global infrastructure vehicle attracted 191 LPs, about half of which were new investors.

The private-equity firm says it has so far deployed close to $6bn of equity in the asset class, with its president boasting returns ‘into the 40% IRR range’.

The emerging markets firm is targeting returns of up to 23% for the vehicle, which is poised to invest in an Ivorian hydro project in Q1.

Teaming up with French company Ideol, the developer will seek funding for the scheme and lead the selection of sites in the UK.

The country is showing goodwill after scrapping a tie-up with Singapore’s Changi Airport last year, which led it to relax foreign takeover rules.