Africa: G20 to Focus on Africa's Development Agenda

Africa's development agenda will remain a high priority, even as Mexico takes over the chair of the Group of Twenty (G20) finance ministers and central bank governors from France from 1 December 2011.

Rémy Rioux of the French Ministry of Economy Finance and Industry, and the Vice Sherpa of France in the G20 Development Working Group, told the executive directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) that G20 discussions, consultations and the action plan for global economic stability will "advance Africa's development priorities, especially on the infrastructure side."

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