Africa: Africa50 Is Partner of Choice for Economic Transformation, Adesina Tells Shareholders

Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo announced as new shareholders Read more »

Chad: AfDB Pledges US $540 Million in Support of Chad, Making it One of the Largest Donors at Paris Roundtable

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group will provide US $540 million for Chad's new National Development Plan (NDP). The Bank also offered Chad the possibility of raising… Read more »

Africa: Kenyan Government Delighted With AfDB's Partnership, As Nnenna Nwabufo Receives Accreditation As Country Manager

Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Dr. Amina Mohammed , presents AfDB's Nnenna Nwabufo with her letter of accreditation. Read more »

Africa: AfDB Advocates Strategies to Deepen Industrialization of Cassava

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is intensifying its financing for the production of crops with the highest potential for industrializing the African agriculture. Read more »

Africa: AfDB Announces New Youth Training Drive to Promote Agricultural Industrialization

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced a new youth training drive in partnership with the Brazil-Africa Institute to train young farmers (aged 18-35 years) in commodity… Read more »

Africa: Experts Call for Early-Warning Systems Against Malnutrition in Africa

2017 Africa Food Prize Laureate, Ruth Oniang'o Read more »

East Africa: AfDB Director General Tasks Horn of Africa Countries On Regional Integration and WTO Accession

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has emphasized the need to ensure coherence between the East Africa's regional integration agenda and the engagement of the Horn of Africa… Read more »

Africa: African Leaders Validate AfDB's Feed Africa Strategy At African Green Revolution Forum

African leaders and partners in the agriculture sector have validated the Feed Africa Strategy of the African Development Bank (AfDB) as a viable tool towards the transformation of… Read more »

Liberia: Liberian President Johnson Sirleaf Visits AfDB President

The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 paid a visit to the African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina at the Bank's headquarters… Read more »

Africa: Agriculture Projects Have to Be Bankable, Says Blanke

Agriculture projects developed for Africa must be bankable and incentivized in order to attract private investors who seek to make profit, and the youth who seek employment. Read more »

Africa: The African Development Bank Appoints Racine Kane As Deputy Director General for the Central Africa Regional Development and Business Delivery Office

The African Development Bank Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Racine Kane as Deputy Director General for the Central Africa Regional Development and Business… Read more »

Africa: Africa50 to Announce New Strategy, New Investments, and New Members At Its Shareholder Meeting in Dakar On September 12

Africa50, the pan-African infrastructure investment platform, will hold its third Shareholders Meeting in Dakar on Tuesday, September 12, at 11:00 a.m. at the King Fahd Hotel. Read more »

Africa: The Frontier for Climate Resilience Begins With Smallholder Farmers

Tackling climate change in Africa will work effectively if efforts are first geared towards eliminating challenges faced by smallholder farmers across the continent, experts say. Read more »

Africa: AGRF 2017 - Agricultural Research in West and Central Africa Still Has a Long Way to Go

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Africa: Women in Agriculture Must Be Facilitated, Panel Hears

Today's technological advances and innovations in agriculture should touch every aspects of women's lives in order for them to have the desired impact on African societies. Read more »

Africa: The Future of Africa Depends On Agriculture

by Akinwumi A. Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Read more »

Africa: Bringing Policymakers Together to Turn Extractives Into Development Outcomes

Turning extractive resources (mining, oil and gas) into development outcomes has proven to be a challenge for African governments and developing countries in general. The channels… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Congressional Delegation Visits the African Development Bank

US congressional delegation visits the AfDB (l-r): Representative Charlie Dent (R-PA), Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Representative Terri Sewell (D-AL), Senator Christopher Coons… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Steadily Pioneers Major Strategy Shift in Africa's Agriculture Financing

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has deepened agriculture with an initial investment of US $774 million in six countries in Africa to ignite economic growth and make agriculture… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Approves U.S. $55-Million (Including U.S.$ 7 Million From GEF) Loan for Three Solar PV Projects in Egypt

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved three senior loans for a total amount of US$ 55 million to finance three solar PV Projects under… Read more »

Africa: African Leaders Set to Accelerate Africa's Path to Prosperity By Growing Economies and Jobs Through Agriculture

Over 750 delegates and high-level dignitaries, including African Heads of States, Ministers, and key stakeholders in the agricultural sector, are convening this week in Côte… Read more »

Africa: ALSF, Uneca, and African Union Cooperate to Develop a Modeling Mining Laws

For more than a decade, Africa has enjoyed a mineral boom, producing more than 10% of the world's minerals by value, from over 30% of its global mineral reserves. And yet, despite… Read more »

Africa: Invitation to the AGRF Youth in Agriculture Resource Platform

The African Development Bank is pleased to invite you to AGRF Youth in Agriculture Resource Platform organised by the Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department (AHAI) and the ENABLE… Read more »

Africa: French President Macron Appoints AfDB's Vanessa Moungar to New Presidential Council for Africa

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has appointed Vanessa Moungar, the African Development Bank's Director for Gender, Women and Civil Society, to his Presidential Council… Read more »

Africa: Unlocking Capital Flows for Forest Development in Africa

AFIC speakers Read more »