Mission 300: Follow the Connections, Not the Commitments

On 16 June 2026, the World Bank Group and the African Development Bank reported that Mission 300, their joint push to connect 300 million Africans to electricity by 2030, had connected more than 50 million people across 40 countries, with access expanding at nearly double the pace recorded at the initiative's launch (World Bank). This is the most recent joint figure we could confirm; we have not found a newer official count.

The banks reported roughly $15 billion committed, about $4.5 billion in co-financing attracted, and more than $7 billion pledged by additional partners. The connections themselves are the headline: 7.5 million people in Tanzania, 4.6 million in Ethiopia, and more than 4.5 million in Nigeria through private-sector-led initiatives. Thirty countries had launched National Energy Compacts (World Bank). Counting is contested: a later AfDB briefing reported 8.4 million people connected through AfDB-approved operations by June 2026, against an AfDB-specific target of 50 million (African Development Bank), and the think tank ODI has argued that the headline number is best read as an accounting of outcomes across World Bank-financed projects rather than connections the programme can take full credit for (ODI).

The June 2026 snapshot is a milestone, not a finish line: one-sixth of the 300 million target, with the clock running to 2030. The release itself frames it as a "launchpad," and the AfDB president called for the effort to double down (World Bank).

Additional people gaining access each year, how those gains are counted, and whether the service is reliable and affordable. For FedAfrica, the question is whether shared planning of this kind can sustain measurable improvements in access. The method, not just the milestone, is the story.