Both the AfDB and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) also acted as Mandated Lead Arrangers (MLA) for the conventional senior loans of over €220m.
The new airport will have a 3 million annual passenger capacity and 80,000 aircraft movements, which will relieve the air and road congestion at the existing Dakar airport.
The project is the second Public-Private Partnership project in Senegal financed by AfDB after the Dakar Toll Road during the second quarter of 2010.