# Africa Launches Its Own Oil Bank as Western Lenders Retreat

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- Published: 2026-11-02T23:00:00+00:00
- Category: Markets
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Africa now has a bank built to finance the oil and gas projects Western banks and development lenders have dropped under their climate commitments. Afreximbank and the African Petroleum Producers’ Organization (APPO) formally established the Africa Energy Bank (AEB) at its inaugural general meeting in Abuja on October 31. That was more than four years after the two institutions began work on it an

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