Kenya: Activists Praise AfDB for Pulling Out of Lamu Coal Plant

15 November 2019

Kenya's quest to have a coal power plant has been shattered after one of the proposed project's key financiers, the African Development Bank (AfDB), pulled out, bowing to pressure from environmental activists.

The pan-African development bank's exit is a big loss to Lamu County, which was banking on the Sh200 billion energy project to spur development, but a win for the environment.

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