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400M€ to support Cambodia in 2023-2024, an unprecedented amount of commitments for AFD in the country
Cambodia, represented by H.E. Mr. Vongsey Vissoth, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister and Permanent Secretary of State of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), and his delegation were welcom...
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France Supports Effective Air Quality Monitoring and Reporting in Sri Lanka
The Minister of Environment of the Government of Sri Lanka, Hon. Naseer AHAMED, the Ambassador of France to Sri Lanka, H.E Jean-François PACTET and Agence Française de Développement Country Director...
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40 million euros loan from AFD to enhance urban mobility and accessibility in Indonesia with the Mass Transit ...
The Government of Indonesia and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed a Credit Facility Agreement for the financing of the MASTRAN project, amounting USD 40 M. This support is part of a c...
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AFD Issues its First Ever Turkish Lira (TRY) Denominated Bond
On March 31, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) priced its first ever Turkish lira (TRY) denominated bond. After a first issuance in Dominican Peso (DOP) last year, this new transaction confi...
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Mozambican Electricity Company EDM Signs Contract With EDF to Reduce Non-technical Losses
Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) has signed a service contract with the EDF group for the implementation of a plan to reduce non-technical losses on its distribution network.
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The Gambia and France Partner to Support the Water Public Utility in the Greater Banjul Area and the Macroec...
On 20th March 2023, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs and Agence française de développement (AFD) will sign two funding agreements ; one additional grant to finance the phase 2 of the ongoi...
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The Clean Oceans Initiative doubles its commitment to provide €4 billion by 2025 to protect the Oceans and wel...
11 February 2022 – Today at the One Ocean Summit in Brest, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and KfW acting on behalf of the German Federal Government com...
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France and Tanzania strengthen their cooperation for more inclusion and sustainability in the agricultural and...
On the sidelines of this year's One Ocean Summit in Brest, H.E. Ms Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, H.E. Mr Franck Riester, Minister Delegate in charge of Foreign Tra...
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Investing Together, For a New Alliance Between Africa and Europe
European development and finance institutions have published a new joint statement to reinforce their commitment for an improved European offer on the eve of the EU-AU Summit.
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AFD Group and Rwanda to improve the teaching and learning of French across the educational system
On Friday 18th February, Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana, Minister of Economic Planning and Finance, Dr. Valentine Uwamariya, Minister of Education, Ambassador of France to Rwanda Antoine Anfré and Mr. Arthur...
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France and Rwanda’s Public Development Banks to Partner for Sustainable Growth
On Friday February 18th, Ms. Kampeta Sayinzoga, CEO of the Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) and Mr. Arthur Germond, country Director of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in Rwanda, signed tw...
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Sustainable Finance in the Indopacific: Final Communiqué
AFD and the India Exim Bank (EXIM) have co-organized in Paris on February 21st, 2022, on the eve of the EU ministerial Forum for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, an important gathering of public devel...
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Artificial intelligence in support of marine biodiversity: introducing an unprecedented international scient...
Even as the One Ocean Summit has drawn fresh attention to the urgent need to protect oceans, the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche–ANR), with joint funding from Agence...
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AFD successfully launches its first euro-denominated benchmark issuance in 2022 : € 750 million 1.125% due 2 M...
On Wednesday February 23rd, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), rated AA /AA (S&P / Fitch), issued its first euro benchmark for the funding year of 2022 with a new € 750 million 15-year transacti...
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Global Africa, a multidisciplinary and multilingual journal addressing the future of the African continent in ...
The members of the Global Africa consortium – University Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis (UGB, Senegal), National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD, France), the Laboratoire d'études et...
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AFD Issues Its First Ever Off-Shore Chinese Renminbi (CNH) Bond
On March, 10th Agence Française de Développement (AFD) priced its first ever Offshore Chinese Renminbi linked bond.
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Researchers Warn Vietnam Could Warm Up to 6°C by Century’s End
A new report warns that if nothing is done to fight climate change, temperatures could rise by as much as 6° in Vietnam in the worst case scenario, with disastrous consequences for people and the envi...
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A Stronger Partnership for Sustainable Finance Between Indonesia and France: PT SMI, AFD and CDC Deepen Their...
Edwin Syahruzad, President Director of PT SMI, and Rémy Rioux, Director General of Agence Française de Développement, signed a new partnership agreement to continue and strengthen cooperation between...
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Voltalia sells a minority stake in its largest solar plant, SSM1&2, located in the Serra Branca cluster in Bra...
STOA, an investment fund specialized in infrastructure projects in developing and emerging countries and Voltalia (Euronext Paris, ISIN code: FR0011995588), an international player in renewable energi...
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TNFD Releases First Beta Version of Nature-related Risk Management Framework for Market Consultation
The first beta version of framework marks an important step by the market to tackle the risk of nature loss and incorporate nature-related risk and opportunity analysis into the heart of corporate and...
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