Africa: 2025 Annual Meetings - Regional Corridors As Drivers of Continental Integration

"It is only via regional corridors that we will be able to move goods and services easily across the continent, reduce transport costs, encourage integration and achieve effective… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's President Ruto Awards African Development Bank's Adesina Highest National Honour

Kenya's President H.E. William Samoei Ruto has conferred the country's highest honour, Chief of the Order of the Golden Heart CGH, on the President of the African Development Bank… Read more »

Eritrea: Desert to Power - The African Development Bank Group, Eritrea Sign Agreement for 12 Mw Mini-Grid Project

The African Development Bank Group and Eritrea have signed an agreement for $19.5 million in grant funding for the Desert to Power Eritrea 12MW Mini Grid Project. Read more »

Africa: The African Development Bank and Giz Champion Public Goods As Drivers of African Transformation

The Bank joined with the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Germany's Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) to discuss Global and Regional Public… Read more »

Africa: 2025 African Development Bank Group Annual Meetings

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Tunisia: The African Development Bank Celebrates 60 Years of Transformative Investments in Tunisia

The African Development Bank marked its 60th anniversary with an official ceremony that showcased the institution's significant investments in Tunisia since 1967. Read more »

Africa: African Development Bank, Pan-African Farmers Organization to Host Conference On Channelling Financing to Smallholder Farmers

What: High-level Conference on Smallholder Farmers Financing - "Scaling Finance for Smallholder Farmers in Africa" Read more »

West Africa: African Development Bank and Ecowas Commission Sign $11.78 Million Agreement to Strengthen Rice Value Chains in West Africa

The African Development Bank and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission have signed a Protocol of Agreement for a grant of $11.78 million to strengthen… Read more »

Africa: African Development Fund 17th Replenishment Meeting

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Africa: African Development Bank, Pandemic Fund Sign Agreement to Leverage Resources for Pandemic Preparedness

The African Development Bank Group has signed an agreement to become an implementing entity of the Pandemic Fund. This enables the Bank to coordinate financing of the Fund's… Read more »

Africa: African Development Bank and Standard Bank Unite to Support SMMEs and Boost Trade

The African Development Bank Group and Standard Bank Group (SBG) on Monday signed a landmark financial agreement to enhance funding for small, medium, and micro enterprises (SMMEs)… Read more »

Liberia: African Development Bank Group and European Union Improve Access to Electricity in Liberia

At Roberts International Airport in Monrovia, regular travellers have noted a quiet revolution: for the last several months, arriving and leaving airport buildings is suddenly a… Read more »

Africa: Official List of Candidates for the Election of the Next President of the African Development Bank

The Steering Committee of the Board of Governors on the Election of the President of the African Development Bank met on 11 and 12 February 2025 at the Bank Group's headquarters in… Read more »

Africa: Ringfencing Africa's Inclusive Growth - African Development Bank to Present Its African Financing Stability Mechanism At AU Summit

The African Development Bank is set to present a groundbreaking initiative at this year's African Union Summit to address the continent's pressing liquidity needs for debt… Read more »

Africa: African Union Summit - African Development Bank President Highlights a Decade of Economic Transformational Impact

African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, delivered a compelling farewell address to Heads of State and Government at the 38th African Union Summit,… Read more »

South Sudan: Uganda and South Sudan - African Development Fund Approves Financing of $153.66 Million for Electricity Interconnection Project

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund approved several loans and grants to Uganda and South Sudan to implement an electricity interconnection project between the… Read more »

Africa: African Development Bank to Launch 2025 Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook Report for Africa

What: Launch of African Development Bank's 2025 Africa's Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook report Read more »

Africa: Finland Strengthens Collaboration With the African Development Bank Ahead of African Development Fund's 17th Replenishment

Finland reaffirmed its commitment to Africa's development during a visit to the African Development Bank's headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire on 23 January 2025. Led by… Read more »

Madagascar: Madagascar's Rural Revival - How Two African Development Bank-Supported Programs Are Transforming Agriculture and Entrepreneurship

Two pioneering programs supported by the African Development Bank in Madagascar are breathing new life into the agricultural sector and unlocking entrepreneurial opportunities for… Read more »

Africa: 'AfDB Has Amplified Africa's Voice in Global Finance,'--Akinwumi Adesina

Original version: https://afrique.latribune.fr/finances/2025-01-10/la-bad-a-amplifie-la-voix-de-l-afrique-dans-la-finance-mondiale-akinwumi-adesina-1014285.html Read more »

Africa: African Development Bank's Transformative Leadership Earns Global Recognition

In a major tribute to the African Development Bank Group's role in improving the lives of millions across the continent, New African Magazine has named two of the Bank Group's… Read more »

Africa: African Development Bank Group, World Bank Group, African Union, and Tanzanian Government to Host Africa Energy Summit

What: Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit Read more »

Chad: Chad - The African Development Fund Approves a Grant of USD 11 Million to Increase Rice Production Through Comprehensive Water Management.

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund - the African Development Bank Group's concessional financing window - approved a grant of USD 11.53 million to Chad in… Read more »

Chad: Chad - New Eur 28 Million African Development Bank-Funded Solar Project to Boost Chad's Energy Access

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved funding worth EUR 28 million to build solar power plants in Gassi and Lamadji, Chad. This is part of the… Read more »

Madagascar: Madagascar - African Development Fund Approves a Grant of Over $9 Million to Strengthen Protection and Sustainable Use Systems for Natural Capital and Ecosystems

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund - the African Development Bank Group's concessional financing window - approved a donation of $9.42 million to Madagascar to… Read more »