07/06/2017 (Agence Europe) – The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced on Tuesday 6 June that it is to provide a €75 million loan for the proposed 1,300 kilometre electricity link between Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the CLSG interconnector, which will improve access to energy in West Africa. The interconnector project was inaugurated in Monrovia on 4 June, on the sidelines of the ECOWAS Heads of State Summit. The €370 million project is also being financed by the African Development Bank, World Bank, KfW and the four countries involved. The EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund is also providing grant funding totalling €27 million to support technical assistance for engineering, feasibility studies and rural electrification. (EH)