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Africa faces a structural development financing gap exceeding $400 billion per year. This gap does not primarily reflect a lack of capital \u2014 the continent holds approximately $4 trillion in domestic long-term savings \u2014 but\u202frather deep\u202fstructural constraints: institutional fragmentation, inefficient risk allocation, limited balance-sheet leverage, and insufficient coordination between public and private capital.\u202f The New African Financial Architecture for Development (NAFAD), led by the African Development Bank Group, aims to respond to this diagnosis with a system-level framework that reorganises how capital and risk are deployed across Africa\u2019s financial ecosystem. 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