Sao Tome and Principe, Dec. 15 -- The African Development Bank Group and the Government of Sao Tome and Principe have deepened their development partnership with $18 million in new grant financing.Signed on Thursday at the Sao Tome and Principe Investment Forum in Brussels, the three agreements will support energy, climate-smart agriculture, and integrated water-energy-food security.The first agreement delivers $7.5 million for the third phase of the Fiscal Sustainability and Resilience Program -Supplementary Financing (FSERP-SF) - part of a budget support operation, launched in December 2023. This brings the cumulative value to $20 million to be disbursed directly into the national budget.The programme drives reforms across two pillars: fi...