African Development Bank Extends €121 Million Food-Production Loan To Senegal To Cushion Impacts Of War In Ukraine

This loan is the first approved under the African Development Bank’s $1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Facility. The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved a €121 million loan to Senegal for implementation of an emergency agricultural programme that will benefit 850,000 small farmers, 35% of whom are women. “Senegal’s dependence […]
Why Senegal and Mauritania are Front-Runners to Fill the Natural Gas Supply Gap Created by Russia

Mauritania and Senegal have laid the groundwork necessary for BP, Kosmos, and their contractors to establish an offshore production complex, with development wells connected to a floating production. When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Senegal on May 22, he made clear that his country views energy — and natural gas specifically — as an […]

