World Bank President Ajay Banga said boosting access to electricity is the key to unlocking the demographic dividend in the ...

The world’s largest banks are showing little progress when it comes to their promise of helping the world avoid the worst ...

An initiative to connect 300 million Africans to electricity in the next six years has won new pledges worth more than $8 ...

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Leaders and senior officials from 27 African nations endorsed a multi-billion dollar program backed by the World Bank to boost access to electricity on the continent.

It is at the heart of our mission to achieve a world free of poverty on a livable planet. The World Bank Group is partnering with the African Development Bank and other partners on Mission 300, an ...

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 ...

The M23, which is supported by thousands of Rwandan troops, briefly seized Goma during its last insurgency over a decade ago, ...

By Isabel Kershner People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, came together at the confluence of two sacred rivers, officials said.

The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has left behind lots of rubble. Some experts fear that much of it will be dumped into the environment without controls. By Aryn Baker Russians who ...

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