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Cameroon: Nearly $6 billion needed to rebuild English-speaking regions

Cameroon needs more than $5.9 billion to rebuild the English-speaking regions devastated by a separatist conflict. The announcement was made by Jacques Fame Ndongo, the country’s Minister of Higher Education. The International Crisis Group estimates that at least 3,000 people have been killed and 530,000 were displaced or forced to flee to neighboring Nigeria and […]

IsDB & EIB commit $1billion each to co-finance green projects

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the European Investment Bank pledged to commit $1b each in co-financing green projects, during the 2019 Sukuk Summit, hosted in Luxembourg. Together with the European Investment Bank (EIB), IsDB signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen cooperation and committed $1 billion each in co-financing green projects through to […]

Guinea: Hydropower plant could kill up to 1,500 chimpanzees

Sinohydro, the world’s biggest hydroelectric power plant construction company, and the Organization for the Promotion of the Senegal River (OMVS) have been awarded the construction of a hydropower plant in Koukoutamba, Republic of Guinea. The 294 MW Koukoutamba dam will be built in the middle of a newly declared protected area called the Moyen-Bafing National […]