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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Fatima Hussein

In Senegal, Yellen talks about future of US-Africa relations

' KEYSTONE / MICHAEL BUHOLZER

On a humid but remarkably cool Friday in Dakar, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen caravanned from a government building to a business incubator, set to end her day at the president's residence, spreading a message of mutually beneficial U.S.-Africa relations.

She came to talk about making the multilateral banks — like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund — more fair to developing countries' interests, constructing new projects such as the largest wind farm in West Africa and committing new funds to education and health care on the continent.

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