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[Published: Saturday July 11 2020]

 DFC: Trump’s ‘weapon’ to thwart Chinese influence across Africa

 
WASHINGTON, 11 July. - (ANA) - After many months spent “warning” governments about the dangers of Beijing’s “non-transparent” development financing, the Trump administration launched the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) in January 2020.
 
This institution consolidates the work previously carried out by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), with a more than doubled investment cap of $60 billion.
 
The new institution is geared towards the private sector, and well aware of the imperative that its transactions reflect positively on the United States, DFC is headed by Adam S. Boehler, an expert in healthcare investment.
 
Since he took office, the US agency has injected $25 million into a fund managed by SPE Capital, a private equity firm with offices in Tunis and Casablanca, and $30 million into AfricInvest’s new pan-African fund.
 
DFC granted a $100m loan to the US-based Global Access Fund to finance water and sanitation projects in 10 countries in the south, in addition to Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda. Since February, Boehler has also been serving as executive chairman of Prosper Africa, an initiative launched in 2018 to enhance “opportunities to do business in Africa – benefiting companies, investors, and workers both in Africa and the United States”.  - (ANA) -
 
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