Archive for the 'Africa' Tag
Featured Photo: Liberian President visits OPIC
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on June 1st visited OPIC, where she spoke about the country’s recovery from the Ebola crisis and its longstanding development goals and progress. Sirleaf, pictured here with OPIC President and CEO... Read more...
Featured Photo: Expanding access to healthcare in Nigeria
Doctors at a Cedarcrest Orthopedic Clinic in Abuja show some of the advanced equipment at the facility, which has been expanded with the support of OPIC financing. At a time when limited healthcare has led many Nigerians to seek medical care in... Read more...
SLIDESHOW: OPIC visits Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire
Last month, OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth L. Littlefield led a delegation of American business leaders and CEOs on an investor tour of West Africa which included meetings with local governments, visits to OPIC-supported projects, and the opening... Read more...
PODCAST: Elizabeth Littlefield remarks on meeting with Senegal Prime Minister Mohammed Dionne
Last week, OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield traveled to West Africa with a group of investors to discuss opportunities for the region and announce a new regional OPIC office located in Abidjan. While visiting Senegal, Ms.... Read more...
Featured Photo: Elizabeth Littlefield meets with Ivorian President Ouattara
OPIC’s president and CEO, Elizabeth Littlefield met with the Côte d’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara, on March 22nd to discuss growth and investment opportunities. Littlefield was in the country for theopening of OPIC’s regional... Read more...
Advancing development by investing in microfinance: OPIC’s Richard Greenberg explains
OPIC, which has actively supported microfinance investment for more than a decade, recently announced that it has surpassed the $1 billion mark in financing to support microfinance projects around the world. Here, Richard Greenberg, OPIC... Read more...
OPIC’s Dia Martin speaks at conference for African entrepreneurs
Photo Credit: Alex Kamweru Dia Martin, Director of OPIC Social Enterprise Finance, spoke at a panel, Building the Glocal Ecosystem: Bridging the Divide, at the Sankalp Africa Summit February 26th in Nairobi. Sankalp is a gathering... Read more...
Electricity supply unreliable even for many grid-connected Africans
OPIC partner Nova Lumos makes home solar kits that are affordable and portable. A new survey of electricity access across Africa shows the regions where energy poverty is most severe and also highlights the fact that many... Read more...
Slideshow: How OPIC invests in women
By investing in development, OPIC invests in women. As the world marks International Women’s Day, these images show some of the women who have benefited from our work. Helping farmers in Africa earn more income. OPIC supports multiple... Read more...
By the numbers: OPIC’s far-reaching impact
OPIC-supported projects improve access to power, clean water, food, education, housing, financial services and more, in over 100 countries from Asia to the Middle East, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. This snapshot shows the impact we have... Read more...