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Arm-Harith Secures $76 Million First Close for Climate Transition Fund
The fund, which targets a final close of $200 million, is designed to mobilise African institutional capital and accelerate investments in energy transition and climate-resilient infrastructure projects across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN Leads Bid to Share African Digital Infrastructure Costs
The GSMA, the industry’s main lobby group, has reinforced the message, calling for “urgent, coordinated action” between governments, regulators and companies to treat telecoms as infrastructure and adopt a “shared responsibility.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: India Is Drowning in Its Own Wastewater. These Two Engineers Decided to Turn It Back Into a Resource.
India generates 72,000 million litres of wastewater every day. It treats 28 percent of it. The other 72 percent flows, untreated, into rivers, lakes, and land. Amrit Nayak and Krunal Patel think the problem is not the water — it is the architecture of how treatment gets built.
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- WASH
- Region
- Global
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OPEC Fund Provides $150 Million Loan to South Africa
The loan forms part of a wider international financing package co-financed by the World Bank, the African Development Bank, KfW and the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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British International Investment Commits $20 Million to Anzana Electric Group to Scale Distributed Renewable Energy Access Across Africa
This will support Anzana to accelerate the development of small and medium-scale hydropower projects in East, Central and Southern Africa, with the first project expected to be in Zambia.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Spiro Raises $215 Million as Race for Africa’s EV Market Heats Up
The round, backed by investors including Impact Fund Denmark and Equitane, comes four months after Spiro secured $50 million in debt financing and less than a year after a separate $100 million equity raise led by Afreximbank’s Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA).
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- Energy, Transportation
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Development Bank and Government of Rwanda Launch $300 Million Energy Sector Results-Based Financing II Program Co-Financed With Aiib to Accelerate Universal Energy Access
The performance-based financing approach links disbursements to independently verified results to strengthen electricity transmission and distribution networks, improve grid reliability, and expand on-grid and off-grid connections among other targets.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: IFC and Banco de Bogotá Announce Financing Package to Create Jobs and Boost Sustainable Growth in Colombia
The investment aims to mobilize private capital into key sectors such as construction, transport, energy, and manufacturing—critical drivers of productivity, competitiveness, and job creation in the country.
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- Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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