October 14, 2019
Madagascar: African Development Bank Launches Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme
The African Development Bank, in partnership with the Government of Madagascar and the African Risk Capacity (ARC), has launched the Africa Disaster Risks Financing Programme… Read more »
Cameroon: Three Power Plants Financed By the African Development Bank to Reduce Power Cuts
For many years, Cameroon's national electricity supply has been notoriously unreliable and subject to power cuts. The last significant electric system outage, which lasted eight… Read more »
Africa: African Development Bank, Climate Investment Funds and the Coalition for Green Capital to Develop Green Financing Instruments for Africa
The African Development Bank, in partnership with the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), has commissioned the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) to prepare a study on the creation of… Read more »
October 11, 2019
Africa: African Development Bank, Government Pension Investment Fund, Partner for Green, Social and Sustainability Bond Markets
The African Development Bank and Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) have signed a partnership to promote environmental, social and governance investments in the… Read more »
Ethiopia: 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Winner - Abiy Ahmed Ali, Prime Minister of Ethiopia
'I am delighted and proud that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Read more »
Africa: African Development Bank Approves $31.3 Million Grants for Water and Sanitation Facilities
The African Development Bank Group on 9 October, 2019 approved an African Development Fund (ADF) grant of $30 million and a $1.3 million grant from the Rural Water Supply and… Read more »
October 10, 2019
Senegal: African Development Bank Partners With Senegal to Host 2021 World Water Forum
A Senegalese government delegation, led by the country's Minister of Water and Sanitation, His Excellency Serigne Mbaye Thiam, briefed the African Development Bank on Senegal's… Read more »
Africa: First Watt Renewables Winners of Renewable Energy Forum 2019 Co-Organized By the African Development Bank
First WATT Renewables were winners of the 4th West African Forum for Climate and Clean Energy Financing (WAFCCEF) contest, held on Thursday 26 September in Abidjan and co-organized… Read more »
Equatorial Guinea: Equatorial Guinea Signs Lusophone Compact
The African Development Bank and the governments of Equatorial Guinea and Portugal have signed a country-specific memorandum of understanding for the implementation of the… Read more »
October 09, 2019
Africa: Africa Investment Forum - CEOs Changing the Investment Narrative in Africa
"The Africa Investment Forum, with its high-level, well-focused audience, ranks among the best. Its strength is that it is very transaction-oriented. The Forum not only brings… Read more »
Africa: African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina Receives Emeka Anyaoku Lifetime Achievement Award
Former Commonwealth Secretary-General Emeka Anyaoku has presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to the African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, describing him and the… Read more »
West Africa: Inaugural Forum Paves the Way for Sustainable Fertilizer Financing in the West Africa Region
Key stakeholders in West Africa's fertilizer sector are calling for more action to support the industry, which is central to the continent's agricultural revolution. Read more »
Africa: Financial Institutions' Chief Information Officers Meet At Knowledge Sharing Convention
The African Development Bank organized a knowledge sharing event of chief information officers (CIOs) from international financial institutions (IFIs) in Cape Town, 23-26… Read more »
Malawi: The African Development Bank Approves $13.2 Million for Sustainable Fisheries, Aquaculture Development and Watershed Management
The African Development Bank Group has approved a $13.2 million financing package from the African Development Fund for a fisheries and aquaculture development project in Malawi.… Read more »
October 07, 2019
Africa: African Development Bank and Partners Launch Pilot Cities Diagnostics Tool in Five Cities
The tool includes key environmental and urban sustainability indicators as well as disaster risk and vulnerability, and urban footprint growth Read more »
Africa: Climate Action Summit - Three Questions to Dr Anthony Nyong, Director Climate Change and Green Growth Department
Leaders from all over the world met in New York recently to discuss efforts to tackle climate change. Read more »
October 03, 2019
Africa: Unga 2019 - African Development Bank Announces New Accountability Index to Measure Institutional Lending to Women
A new tool to track the level of lending to women across the continent will be important for ensuring women get the critical financial help they need, African Development Bank… Read more »
Africa: African Development Bank Group Approves Loans of €209m for Expansion of 'Great North Road'
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved loans of around €209 million to fund the expansion of a highway that links major economic hubs in… Read more »
October 01, 2019
Africa: First West Africa Fertilizer Financing Forum, Hosted By African Development Bank, Opens in Abidjan
"Effective partnerships for financing are key to the fertilizer sector growth." Read more »
September 28, 2019
Burkina Faso: TAAT Deploys Climate Smart Technologies to Boost Sorghum Production in the Sahel
Sorghum is the fifth most produced grain globally. Read more »
Benin: TAAT Excites Beninese Farmers with Pro Vitamin A Cassava Varieties
A staple to about 350 million people in sub Saharan Africa, cassava, had been declared in 2003 by African Heads of State as a poverty fighter. However, the crop is yet to prove its… Read more »
September 27, 2019
Africa: Unga 2019 - Hands Off Our Girls! African First Ladies Take Campaign Against Rape, Early Child Marriage, to UN General Assembly
Africa's first ladies, led by Sierra Leone Fatima Maada Bio brought their campaign to ban early child marriage and sexual violence against women and girls before a global stage in… Read more »
Africa: The Bank Group's Swears in Its New Sanctions Commissioners
On 10 September 2019, two experts with more than 35 years of combined experience in the legal field were sworn in as the Bank Group's new sanctions commissioner and alternate… Read more »
Ghana: Helping Ghana Feed Itself - Pilot Project Bodes Well for the Region
Tahiru Ibrahim says he made his fortune off shea nut trees on his savannah land in Ghana's northern region. Read more »
September 26, 2019
Africa: Unga 2019 - Young Africans Will "Produce the Magic" Says AU Chief As the UN Sounds Warning On Sustainable Development Goals
Leaders should devise an "incentive structure" to promote a startup culture among young Africans. "I think they will produce the magic," Albert Muchanga, the African Union's… Read more »