IMF Executive Board Concludes Review of Colombia’s Performance Under the Flexible Credit Line Arrangement

The current two-year FCL arrangement for Colombia was approved by the IMF’s Executive Board on April 29, 2022 (see Press Release No. 22/135) in an amount equivalent to SDR 7.1557 billion (about US$9.8 billion). The Colombian authorities stated their intention to continue treating the FCL arrangement as precautionary.

African Development Bank, European Union, and France invest $300 million in Tanzania’s Hydropower Project

The government of Tanzania, the African Development Bank, and the French Development Agency (AFD) have signed agreements for two development project loans worth $300 million. The funds will finance the construction of the 87.8-megawatt Kakono Hydropower Plant located in Kagera region in the northern part of...

Africa Knowledge Exchange shares perspectives on protecting forests, fostering climate resilience and empowering communities

In March 2023, the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, and the African Development Bank Group held a four-day event to share knowledge from 15 years of the Fund’s interventions in Africa. The event focused on experiences from the Forest Investment Program and the Pilot Program for...

Côte d'Ivoire: Singrobo-Ahouaty, West Africa’s first private sector-financed hydropower plant to supply electricity to 100,000 households and...

Three years after construction began, the Singrobo-Ahouaty hydropower plant project, located some 150 km north of Abidjan, achieved a completion rate of 78.93% as of end-March 2023. This project, which is symbolic of private sector mobilization for climate and green growth, is the first private sector-funded...