February 15, 2024
Senegal: Senegal - African Development Bank Improves Quality of Life for Hundreds of Thousands of Rural People By Facilitating Their Access to Basic Socio-Economic Infrastructure
The Emergency Community Development Programme Support Project, benefiting from €43.32 million in support from the African Development Bank Group, has been implemented in… Read more »
December 08, 2023
Africa: Senegal Makes Its Entry On the International Sustainable Finance Market With Eur 400 Million Partial Credit Guarantee From the African Development Bank
Proceeds from loans secured through AfDB's partial guarantee will be allocated exclusively to social and green investment sectors. Read more »
Africa: COP28 Side Event - Post Dakar 2 African Initiatives for Food Sovereignty and Resilience: Lessons Learned and Perspectives
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December 01, 2023
Africa: Senegal - African Development Bank Loans Over Eur 74 Million to Strengthen Internal Resource Mobilization and Support Industrial Activities
The African Development Bank's action will contribute to increasing the State's public resources to improve people's living conditions. Read more »
November 22, 2023
Senegal: Senegal - African Development Bank Agrees Loan of Nearly €87 Million for Agropole Nord
Planned for construction and implementation over 5 years, Senegal's Agropole Nord will help to sustainably increase household incomes and food security. Read more »
September 13, 2023
Africa: Adja Sembene Fall, Senegalese 'Agripreneur' and African Development Bank Agripitch Competition Winner Says Digital Marketing Key to Luxury Tea Startup Success
AgriPitch Competition winner Adja Sembene Fall, earned $25,000 in seed money for her Contanna Tea Company. Read more »
September 04, 2023
Africa: Africa Food Systems Forum 2023 / Side Event - Post-Dakar 2 - Food Sovereignty and Resilience
What: Africa Food Systems Forum 2023 Read more »
August 30, 2023
Senegal: African Development Bank Embraces 'Risky' Entrepreneurs - Young Fishers in Senegal Increase Their Incomes Threefold and Turn Their Backs On Illegal Immigration
These young people in Senegal have turned their back on illegal immigration thanks to the support provided by the PAVIE project. Read more »
May 26, 2023
Senegal: United Kingdom Announces First Water Infrastructure Resilience Projects in Egypt and Senegal Under Its Room2run Guarantee Program
Andrew Mitchell, UK Minister of State for Development and Africa (left); Rania Al-Mashat, Egypt's Minister of International Cooperation; Oulimata Sarr, Senegal's Minister of… Read more »
March 30, 2023
Senegal: Gender in Focus - African Development Bank's Digital Ambassadors Program Training Boosts Senegalese Entrepreneur Business Performance, Service to Community
Senegalese entrepreneur Fatou Diouf is one of 1,000 youth selected from 21,000 applicants for the African Development Bank's Digital Ambassadors program. Read more »
March 06, 2023
Senegal: Gender in Focus - Senegalese 'Agripreneur' and African Development Bank Agripitch Competition Winner Says Digital Marketing Key to Luxury Tea Startup Success
Senegalese businesswoman Adja Sembene Fall said she had no choice but to launch her start-up business online because her new Contanna fair-trade tea company only had $200 to its… Read more »
March 04, 2023
Africa: Time for Africa to Feed Itself - Dakar 2 Summit Takes Africa's Food Agenda Forward
Thirty-four African heads of state and government along with scores of ministers and international partners came together in Dakar to mobilise investment and move forward plans to… Read more »
February 17, 2023
Africa: Dakar Financing Summit - African Development Bank Is Lead Financier of Pida Infrastructure Projects
The African Development Bank has provided over 50% of financing secured by infrastructure projects under the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), making it… Read more »
February 13, 2023
Africa: Dakar Financing Summit 2 - African Leaders Commend Progress On Infrastructure Development but Call for More Robust Preparation of Projects
"The continent's progress on infrastructure is real but the challenges are also real" President Macky Sall Read more »
February 10, 2023
Africa: Unlock the Impact Potential of Agricultural SMEs in Africa, Experts Urge At Dakar 2 Food Summit
L-R: Allan Kasujja, Moderator; Admassu Tadesse, president and CEO, Eastern and Southern African, Trade and Development Bank; Danladi Verheijen, Co-founder and CEO, Verod Capital;… Read more »
February 02, 2023
Africa: Dakar Financing Summit - $160 Billion Worth of Infrastructure Projects for Africa
Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, African Development Bank Acting Vice President (right), Ahmadou Abdoulaye Diallo, Director General of the African Solidarity Fund (center) and Algerian… Read more »
February 01, 2023
Africa: Dakar 2 Summit - Partnership to Deliver Technologies to Farmers to Feed Africa - Says Adesina
L-R: Panel Moderator Daouda Sembene; Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank Group; Dr. Sidi Ould Tah, Director General of the Arab Bank for Economic… Read more »
January 31, 2023
Africa: Dakar 2 - African Development Bank Group, Government of Canada Announce Funding Facility to Grow Agriculture Small and Medium Enterprises
(l to r) Nungari Mwangi, AgriSME Strategy and Partnerships Officer, AfDB, Atsuko Toda, Director, Agricultural Finance and Rural Development, AfDB, Andrew Mude, Lead, AgriSME… Read more »
January 27, 2023
Africa: Dakar 2 Summit - Optimism Abounds As African Leaders Share Experiences of Agricultural Transformation.
President of Burundi Évariste Ndayishumiye welcomed to the Dakar 2 summit by Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank. He is one of 34 leaders to… Read more »
Africa: Dakar 2 Summit - Development Partners to Commit $30 Billion to Boost Food Production in Africa
The second Africa food summit in Senegal ended on Friday, with development partners agreeing to commit $30 billion to back the continent's resolve to boost agricultural… Read more »
Africa: Feed Africa Summit (Dakar 2) - Closing Press Conference
What: Dakar 2 Summit closing press conference Read more »
January 25, 2023
Africa: Tunisians Anticipate Productive Dakar 2 Africa Food Summit
There is keen interest from Tunisia in this week's three-day Africa Food Summit taking place near the Senegalese capital of Dakar. Some of Tunisia's leading agricultural… Read more »
January 20, 2023
Senegal: Pre-Africa Food Summit Press Conference (Dakar 2)
What: Dakar 2 Summit launch press conference Read more »
January 18, 2023
Africa: Second International Summit On Food Production in Africa to Open in Dakar
Heads of state and government to chair sessions on developing country food and agriculture delivery compacts, spur commitment to political action toward eliminating hunger,… Read more »
January 10, 2023
Africa: Dakar 2 Summit - Feed Africa - Food Sovereignty and Resilience
WHO: The African Development Bank Group, Government of Senegal, the African Union Commission Read more »
