Even at war, nine in ten of your young people complete school and almost all of you have a safe toilet and clean fuel.

Almost every one of your young people completes lower-secondary school, and you sold the Pacific’s first sovereign blue bond.

Every one of you cooks with clean fuel and almost nine in ten drink safely managed water, in one of the driest nations on earth.

When Hurricane Melissa struck, your catastrophe bond paid out in full within weeks, and you have already bought the next one.

Ninety-five in every hundred of you cook with clean fuel, and four-fifths of your energy comes from renewable sources.

More than half your land is forest, and essential health care scores 82 out of 100, among the highest in the region.

Essential health care scores 79 out of 100 on the World Health Organization index, and World Bank Group operations have helped mobilise nearly $12 billion of private capital in your country.

Nine in ten of your children complete lower-secondary school, and you have climbed out of default faster than almost anyone expected.

In a single generation you lifted most of your people out of poverty, and in September 2026 the world’s index investors began to buy your companies as an emerging market.

Your people send home more money than almost any nation’s, and the world’s banks lend to you on your reforms.

You have rebuilt your reserves under one of the IMF’s largest programmes.

You hold half your land in forest, and you were among the first nations to sell a green sukuk to the world.

You have fed a nation of 175 million on one of the most crowded deltas on earth.

Almost every one of you cooks with clean fuel, and the IMF judges your policies strong enough to keep a $4.5 billion credit line open on demand.

You grow more cocoa than any nation on earth, and you invented a new way to turn expensive debt into schools.

You have kept your democracy through every test, and your new oil and gas fields have begun to flow.

Every one of you cooks with clean fuel, and the Nile has carried your civilisation for five thousand years.

You are one of the oldest nations on earth, and almost all of your electricity already comes from water, wind and sun.

You were the first nation south of the Sahara to win its independence, and you have just completed one of the hardest economic recoveries on the continent.

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