Senegal Set to Commit $2.7 Billion to Its Energy Transition Plan

Senegal could soon announce a $2.7-billion commitment to its internationally-backed program to reduce emissions and reliance on fossil fuels if the party of the current president and prime minister-appointee wins this weekend’s parliamentary elections. “It will probably be rapidly after the election if Prime Minister Sonko has a majority,” Remy Rioux, the chief executive of France’s state development bank, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), told Bloomberg in an interview published on Monday. Senegal,…