Thirty African Heads of State and governments today committed to concrete reforms and actions to expand access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity to power economic growth, improve ...

African heads of state, business leaders, and development partners will converge tomorrow in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for the ...

Ethiopia has made significant progress in energy access in recent years; however, despite a 94% electrification rate in urban ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

Follow the journey of Terna and Aisha, two inspiring students whose lives have been profoundly impacted as they received hands-on training in renewable energy solutions. Discover how they plan to ...

Water is life. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has the world's lowest regional average annual water availability per person. Policies must be enacted to conserve water as populations ...

Global growth is expected to hold steady at 2.7 percent in 2025-26. However, the global economy appears to be settling at a low growth rate that will be insufficient to foster sustained economic ...

With a national electricity access rate of 84%, Senegal is making progress towards universal energy access, yet more than 30 % of rural communities remain disconnected from the grid. As part of the ...

Djibouti is vital to the Horn of Africa, where its port handles 95% of Ethopian imports and its submarine cables connect Africa to the world. But climate change poses a major threat as rising sea ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2025—The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors today endorsed a new five-year Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Armenia. The framework aims to reduce poverty and ...

How transparent are IDA countries in their debt reporting practices? This heat map presents an assessment based on the availability, completeness, and timeliness of public debt statistics and debt ...

WASHINGTON, January 22, 2025 - The World Bank has approved a $100 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) to help Mali increase access to drinking water and improve the ...