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Melissa Chemam with RFI

UAE pledges $4.5 billion investment in clean energy for Africa

The Africa Climate Summit 2023 opened at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi on 4 September 2023. AFP - SIMON MAINA

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has pledged $4.5 billion in clean energy investments in Africa at the landmark Africa Climate Summit in Kenya's capital Nairobi on Tuesday.

The investment is designed to "jumpstart a pipeline of bankable clean energy projects in this very important continent", Sultan Al Jaber, head of the UAE's national oil company ADNOC and government-owned renewable energy company Masdar, said.

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