The Executive Council of the African Union has supported Dr. Akinwumi Adesina’s candidacy for a second term as President of the African Development Bank. The decision...
From Right to Left: Tony O. Elumelu, CON, Founder, Tony Elumelu Foundation and Akinwunmi Adesina, President, African Development Bank (AfDB) at the 2019 Tony Elumelu Foundation...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has endorsed the candidacy of African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina for a second term at the helm...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a grant of $5 million to enable the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme to scale...
The goal is to expand the program to 130 centres of excellence across Africa over a 10-year period SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, December 13, 2019- After...
The project advances the Bank’s aim to industrialize Africa and to improve the lives of its people, two of its High 5 development priorities ABIDJAN, Ivory...
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), working with seven African exchanges, the African Development Bank and the African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) hosted the African Exchange Linkage...
In the past decade, a stroll along the aisles of any African supermarket is revealing: there is a new wave of home-brewed brands that are fast...
The African Development Bank on Thursday signed off on its €12.5 million equity investment in Adiwale Fund 1, a first-generation private equity fund targeting high growth...
Image credit: African Development Bank For many years, Cameroon’s national electricity supply has been notoriously unreliable and subject to power cuts. The last significant electric system...
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....
The tool includes key environmental and urban sustainability indicators as well as disaster risk and vulnerability, and urban footprint growth. ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, October 7, 2019...
G5 Sahel heads of state at a Summit on Friday in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, gave strong support to Desert to Power, an Africa Development Bank-led initiative....
The African Development Bank and the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) have signed two grant agreements to implement trade credit guarantees worth $5.4 million to...
When she was a little girl, Jeanne Yamfashije wanted to be a doctor. Her goal was to make her parents proud and serve her people. The...
ABIDJAN, Cote d’Ivoire, 22 July 2019 – A veteran exporter of Kenyan fresh fruits and vegetables and a young South African farmer specialising in the design, provision...
Image: AfDB In 38 of the continent’s neediest countries, the Fund is creating linkages to promote regional integration, commercial exchanges and enhancing food security ABIDJAN, Ivory...
Image: AfDB The African Development Bank has hosted a group of experts to discuss how technology can be deployed to transform food systems in West Africa....
The Bank’s Climate Fund will also release $150,000.00 to Malawi to enable authorities to assist communities and internally displaced persons impacted by the cyclone LILONGWE, Malawi...
Participants performing activities during the Hour of Code at Gombe State University More young people and students across Africa and in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous economy,...
