Luxemburg, 03/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - On 19 December 2007, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the regional organisation West African Power Pool (WAPP) signed a grant agreement to the value of €3 million. The grant, which is provided under the recently established EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund, will fund two pre-investment studies for an electricity interconnection project enabling power exchanges between the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
The aim of the WAPP is...