The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) is holding its annual meetings in Algeria for the first time in 24 years from Monday to Thursday, with a focus on expanding investment in Africa. The Saudi-based bank's annual meeting brought to the Algerian capital Algiers investors from across the Muslim world looking for business opportunities in the region. Pursuing its sustainable development goals, Algeria announced dedicating one million hectares of land in its south to foreign investment in agriculture. The IsDB and Algeria together are eying to boost intra-African trade through investing in infrastructure required to enhance continental connectivity. The Islamic Development Bank is made up of the 57 member states forming the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, 20 countries of which are African, thus making the continent's development essential for the bank's mission. One billion U.S. dollars-worth of agreements were signed during the meeting, which involve a wide scope of developmental projects from agriculture projects in the Gambia to flood dams in Oman. Shotlist: Algiers, Algeria - May 21, 2025: 1. Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) logo; 2. Meeting venue; 3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic, dubbed in English) Omar Rekkache, director general, Algerian Investment Promotion Agency (starting with shot 2/partially overlaid with shots 4-5): "Food processing and food industries are also within our priorities. Another sector that has shown great demand for is renewable energy. We are proceeding to give major investment opportunities in this field. Tourism is an industry that is very promising. It's a foreign currency generator with a massive added value to our economy."; [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] FILE: Algiers, Algeria - March 26, 2018 4. Technologies for renewable energy on display; FILE: Algiers, Algeria - May 15, 2016 5. Cultural performance at tourism fair; [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] FILE: Algeria - Date Unknown 6. Various of landscape, highway; Algiers, Algeria - May 21, 2025 7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic, dubbed in English) Soufiane Mazari, head, Islamic Finance Division, Algerian Popular Loan (starting with shot 6/partially overlaid with shot 8): "We are working on logistics to intensify all that is related to aviation and maritime transportation. We even have major projects underway to expand the local Algeria rail network and also possibly connect it to rail networks in neighboring countries. Another major project is a road that will connect the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Guinea, going through Niger and Nigeria."; [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] 8. Various of attendees at meeting venue; [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Khalid Khalafallah, CEO, Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) (partially overlaid with shot 10): "Africa has been one of the largest beneficiaries of our services both on the insurance side and the financing side. We see still huge potential to support this area because the demand in Africa is huge, especially for infrastructure that connects intra African countries, which is still a big challenge and this is key for any investment to come to any African country."; [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] 10. Various of attendees talking; [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] FILE: Algeria - Date Unknown 11. Algerian national flags; 12. Algerian national flag on building. [Restriction - No access Chinese mainland]