{"id":19893,"date":"2019-01-08T06:24:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T06:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdas.org\/?p=19893"},"modified":"2019-01-08T06:28:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T06:28:23","slug":"us-aid-prioritizes-energy-to-east-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/2019\/01\/08\/us-aid-prioritizes-energy-to-east-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"US Aid Prioritizes On Energy To East Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The objective of United States\u2019 investment and support to the East African Community (EAC) bloc will be on energy through the US-funded Power Africa initiative. The Mission Director for the American aid agency Mr. Mark Meassick pledged to US aid in Kenya and East Africain last meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe magnitude of resources is not enough, but priority will be given to the energy sector,\u201d Mr Meassick said to reporters after meeting senior EAC officials.<\/p>\n

He said the US has invested about $220 million as development aid to the EAC in the last two years, a possibility of growing partnership between the two sides.<\/p>\n

Mr Meassick said his country\u2019s support to the EAC was upwardly shifting from health and environment to trade-related investments such as agriculture and customs.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore funding will be in the energy sector. Through industrialization, energy will have a high outcome on investments,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama has launched Power Africa a five-year American presidential initiative during his visit to Tanzania in June 2013.<\/p>\n

Through Power Africa, the US government in August released $21 million for the development of the energy sector in the EAC region.<\/p>\n

The main objectives are to support economic growth and development by increasing access to reliable, affordable and sustainable power in Africa.<\/p>\n

Among the six main focus countries Tanzania is one of them, the others being Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia.<\/p>\n

USaid was to spearhead the implementation of the programme in collaboration with the African Development Bank (AfDB) which was to allocate $3 billion.<\/p>\n

Larger amounts of US development assistance to the region is channeled through agency, he said, citing the $200 million injected to EAC in the past two years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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