European Commission approves EUR 5 million to African Legal Support Facility

The European Commission has approved a grant of 5 million euros to the African Legal Support Facility, to finance the Facility's Medium-Term Strategy for the next five years.

ALSF, hosted by the African Development Bank, to date has supported African countries to negotiate commercial deals worth more than US$60 billion in potential investments, mainly in the infrastructure and extractive sectors.

This assistance from the European Union will boost resources required to consolidate these achievements and reinforce the partnership between the two organisations in other common areas of interest, such as support to development work in fragile states, climate resilience and debt sustainability, ALSF Director Stephen Karangizi said.

Karangizi thanked the EU for its generous support. He noted that the grant would help ALSF fulfil its mandate to assist African countries to negotiate and conclude equitable and sustainable agreements which would deliver greater benefits to African governments and their citizens in the years to come.