Press Release: EIB and EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund collaborate to reinforce regional infrastructure:EUR 1.75m grant to WAPP to reinforce the Ivory Coast–Ghana interconnection

The EIB, through the EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund, approved a EUR 1.75 million grant to the West African Power Pool (WAPP) to finance pre-investment studies for a 330 kV transmission link from Riviera in the Ivory Coast to Prestea in Ghana. The studies will address the final missing link of the Coastal Transmission Backbone, a priority project which will establish a stable connection from Riviera in Côte d’Ivoire to Ikeja West in Nigeria, passing through Prestea, Aboadze, Volta in Ghana, Mome Hagou in Togo, and Sakete in Benin.