{"id":77132,"date":"2026-04-15T12:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/77132\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:50:25","slug":"ethiopia-ifc-and-wegagen-bank-launch-10-million-trade-finance-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/77132\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: IFC and Wegagen Bank launch $10 million trade finance facility\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-50-780x470.png\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-main-img=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On April 9, 2026, the\u00a0International Finance Corporation\u00a0and\u00a0Wegagen Bank\u00a0signed an agreement to establish a $10 million trade finance guarantee facility. Part of IFC\u2019s Global Trade Finance Program, the initiative aims to support Ethiopian businesses involved in import-export activities. According to official World Bank data, limited access to trade finance remains a key constraint for SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa, restricting their participation in global value chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On April 9, 2026, the\u00a0International Finance Corporation\u00a0and\u00a0Wegagen Bank\u00a0signed an agreement to establish a $10 million trade finance guarantee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[263,6,956,443,14528,28484,266,28408,20974],"class_list":{"0":"post-77132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afrique","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-afrique","10":"tag-ethiopia","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-ifc","13":"tag-smes","14":"tag-trade","15":"tag-wegagen-bank","16":"tag-world-bank"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@afrique\/116408813553886810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}