The agency joins several development finance institutions as well as private lenders in providing financing for what it says will be the single largest wind power project in Africa. The agency did not name the other lenders in a press release.

OPIC, the US government’s development finance institution, is playing a key role in President Obama’s Power Africa Initiative, which aims to catalyze private investors to produce 10GW of new energy for the more than 600 million Sub-Saharan Africans currently living without power.

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