The private sector lending arm of the World Bank, the international finance corporation, IFC, has reported a 25 percent jump in the value of its investments within Sub-Sahara Africa for the year ended June 30th 2010. IFC said its investments in the region rose to 2.4 billion U.S. dollars, about 192 billion shillings; -- up from 1.8 billion U.S. dollars recorded a year earlier; -- a performance the body attributes to an improvement in the investment climate in the continent, and IFC’S now decentralized African services