Africa: How AfrexInsure is Strengthening the Risk Mitigation Foundations of African Trade

Africa: How AfrexInsure is Strengthening the Risk Mitigation Foundations of African Trade

Africa’s trade ambitions hinge on a simple truth often obscured by headlines about ports, power and tariffs. Trade expands rapidly when exporters, financiers and insurers have frameworks to identify, price and transfer the underlying risks. Specialty insurance – the bespoke, technically sophisticated cover that protects complex, high-value and high-frequency commercial activity – is not a…

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Africa: World Bank Approves New Financing to Enhance Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Sierra Leone

Africa: World Bank Approves New Financing to Enhance Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Sierra Leone

Washington — The World Bank today approved an additional grant of $18.34 million to support Sierra Leone in enhancing biodiversity protection, environmental sustainability, and climate change resilience. This funding, provided through the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) under the Global Environment Facility (GEF), will scale up ongoing activities under Phase 2 of the West Africa…

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