November 16, 2016
Africa: Remarks by Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, at Africa Day, COP 22, November 16, 2016, Marrakesh, Morocco
Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen! Read more »
November 09, 2016
Africa: AfDB Hosts High-Level Workshop to Operationalise Bank's Knowledge Product On Road Safety
The African Development Bank hosted a two-day high-level regional road safety workshop in Abidjan recently to bring together top managements of road authorities and development… Read more »
November 03, 2016
Nigeria: AfDB Launches Fashionomics At Lagos Fashion and Design Week in Nigeria
The African Development Bank launched "Fashionomics", a platform to develop the African fashion industry for jobs creation, at Lagos Fashion and Design Week, which opened Friday,… Read more »
November 02, 2016
Algeria: AfDB Approves €900 Million for Algeria's Industrial and Energy Support Programme
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Wednesday, November 2, 2016, approved a €900-million loan to Algeria to finance the country's Industrial and… Read more »
October 26, 2016
Africa: AfDB Approves Somalia Infrastructure Fund
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a framework document for the establishment of the AfDB Multi-Partner Somalia Infrastructure Fund. Read more »
September 27, 2016
Nigeria: Adesina Stresses Need for Nigeria to Incentivize its Way Out of Recession
Nigeria must reap the "dividends of devaluation" - AfDB to stand by Nigeria with increased financial support Read more »
September 23, 2016
Africa: AfDB President Adesina Calls for Bold Action to Light Up and Power Africa
African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina called for bold action Tuesday to light up Africa within the next ten years. "Ten years is the timeframe. We need to take Africa… Read more »
September 14, 2016
Africa: Integration Critical to Industrialization in Africa
Africa is growing. Estimates are that the continent's population will double in the next 50 years. Read more »
September 18, 2016
Senegal: The AfDB pledges US $1.4 billion in funding for Senegal for 2016-2020, including US $48.4 million in budget support for 2016
On September 14, 2016, in Abidjan, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved the Country Strategy Paper for Senegal for the next five years… Read more »
August 23, 2016
Africa: AfDB President Adesina's First Year in Office and a Remarkable Transformation Agenda
During his investiture as the 8th elected President of the African Development Bank Group on 1st September 2015, Akinwumi Adesina pledged "to help build a new Africa with… Read more »
August 29, 2016
Africa: ANRC Publishes Five Case Studies On Maximizing Human Development Outcomes From Extractive Industries
The African Development Bank's (AfDB) African Natural Resources Center (ANRC) has published five case studies that look at the different ways in which countries are designing… Read more »
August 28, 2016
Africa: Japan Pledges Investment in Quality Infrastructure in Africa
Investing in infrastructure and human resource development are crucial for Africa to realise Agenda 2063, a high-level panel during the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on… Read more »
August 27, 2016
Africa: Japan Chooses AfDB to Implement Bold New Infrastructure Plan for Africa
Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced a bold new African infrastructure plan worth US $10 billion over the next three years to be implemented by the African… Read more »
August 25, 2016
Africa: Nepad-IPPF Strengthens Capacity to Improve Stock of Well-Prepared Bankable Infrastructure Projects
The NEPAD Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility, NEPAD-IPPF, has concluded a two-day workshop that brought together over 20 staff members, representatives from the African… Read more »
August 16, 2016
Mozambique: Mission Visits Dam Rehabilitation Project Expected to Provide Water to 17,000 People in Mozambique
On August 3, 2016, the African Development Bank's Resident Representative in Mozambique, Joseph Ribeiro, and various members of the diplomatic community visited the Massingir Dam… Read more »
August 10, 2016
Africa: Single African Passport - A Turning Point for an Integrated and Prosperous Africa
To all those who are convinced that regional integration requires strong political will and committed leadership, African Heads of State showed just that when they were presented… Read more »
August 27, 2016
Africa: Bank Group Participates in TICAD VI
An African Development Bank (AfDB) Group delegation led by the Bank President, Akinwumi Adesina, will attend the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD… Read more »
August 04, 2016
Tanzania: African Water Facility: Boosting Hydropower and Irrigation in Tanzania
Tanzania is expected to benefit from a boost in hydropower generation and irrigation development thanks to a new study financed by the African Water Facility (AWF). This… Read more »
July 27, 2016
Africa: Poverty and Inequality Reduction has Remained Less Responsive to Growth Successes Across the Continent, Says AfDB African Development Report 2015
African economies have grown substantially over the past decade, but poverty and inequality reduction has remained less responsive to growth successes across the continent,… Read more »
July 25, 2016
Africa: Board Approves AfDB Group's industrialisation Strategy for Africa 2016-2025
A Road Map for scaling up Africa’s economic transformation Read more »
July 23, 2016
Africa: Africa50 to Mobilise USD 1 Billion for Infrastructure Projects in Africa
Africa50 held on 21 July 2016 its first Annual General Meeting (AGM) following its historic Constitutive General Assembly which took place in July 2015 and where twenty (20)… Read more »
July 04, 2016
West Africa: Industrialisation in West Africa (2) - Global or Regional Strategies?
A previous post took stock of industrial development in West Africa. It was explained that at a time when the international community, including the African Development Bank,… Read more »
July 08, 2016
Southern Africa: Lighting Up and Powering Africa - AfDB Boosts Eskom's Electricity Generation Capacity With a Usd 1.34 Billion Jumbo Loan
Within the context of the New Deal on Energy for Africa, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and South Africa's power utility (Eskom) on Wednesday, July 7, 2016 in Johannesburg,… Read more »
July 01, 2016
Africa: Fragile Contexts, a Key Focus of ADF-14
More than 56 million people require humanitarian assistance and more than 17 million are displaced across Africa, according to the African Development Bank. Read more »
June 30, 2016
Africa: Charting Africa's Progress - African Development Bank Launches Mapafrica 2.0
The African Development Bank has released a new online tool that enables anyone in the world to see at a glance how the Bank's projects are boosting Africa's economies and making… Read more »