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As the World Bank ends its ban on funding nuclear energy, countries such as Kenya and Ghana will be better placed to raise finance.

The decision, a major reversal, could help poorer nations industrialize, cut planet-warming emissions and boost U.S. competitiveness on next-generation reactors.

The World Bank will reenter the nuclear energy sector for the first time in decades, a landmark policy change that signals a broader shift in its approach to clean energy, but contentious debate continues on fossil fuels.

US priorities are shifting, but talk of American disengagement from the continent's energy expansion mission may be premature.