Tunisia and the African Development Bank signed two financing agreements in Tunis on 22 September, the Bank said on 24 September. One is a state-guaranteed €111.5 million loan to water utility SONEDE for technical and energy-performance upgrades to the Greater Tunis drinking-water network.

The second is a state-guaranteed $110 million loan to the Tunisian Chemical Group to rehabilitate production units at Gabès, Skhira and M’Dhilla and improve environmental and energy performance. At the Gabès site, steam recovery is expected to provide 23 megawatts of self-generation capacity. The two loan amounts use different currencies and are reported separately.