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01/01/1970

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. He deserves it for his…

01/01/1970

International Women’s Day: Bank Operations are Impacting Women and Girls at Scale

Faith Keza is a happy entrepreneur. CEO at Irembu, Kigali, Rwanda. She is Rwandan. She went to the Massachusetts…

01/01/1970

The one-stop border post between Tanzania and Kenya, a symbol of East-African integration

Naftali Elude Mzota, a driver for the Impala Shuttle Company in Tanzania, has been driving between Tanzania and Kenya…

01/01/1970

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…

01/01/1970

Strengthening food systems must be at the centre of Africa’s COVID-19 recovery, says African Development Bank

Strengthening food systems must be an integral part of efforts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and to build…

01/01/1970

Launch of the 2020 North Africa Economic Outlook report

What? Launch of the 2020 North Africa Economic Outlook Report Who? African Development Bank, North Africa Bureau When?…

01/01/1970

World Food Prize and World Hunger Fighters Foundation launch fellowship for young African agribusiness innovators

The World Food Prize Foundation and the newly launched World Hunger Fighters Foundation are partnering to provide year-…

01/01/1970

In Nigeria, a mother’s search for tasty, nutritious food for her son spurs a baby food revolution

  For Women’s History Month, we spotlight Oluwaseun Sangoleye, founder of Baby Grubz, a Nigerian baby food company…

01/01/1970

Weather data helps authorities respond to deadly floods in Abidjan

When torrential rains and flash floods deluged parts of Côte d’Ivoire’s economic capital, Abidjan, an African…

01/01/1970

How the Africa Investment Forum is transforming the continent’s approach to infrastructure projects

Streaming across the new bridge linking the Gambia and Senegal earlier this year, cars, trucks and pedestrians…

01/01/1970

Madagascar : première revue du portefeuille de projets de la Banque africaine de développement pour 2021

Le bureau-pays de la Banque africaine de développement à Madagascar a organisé, du 2 au 4 mars en visioconférence, la…

01/01/1970

Video: Keeping economies stimulated is the main Bank’s goal this year, VP Khaled Sherif says

2020 can easily be characterized by the impacts felt from COVID-19. The AfDB Vice President of Regional Development,…

01/01/1970

Togo : la Banque africaine de développement finance à hauteur de 29 millions de dollars la modernisation de l’administration fiscale et douanière

Mardi 1er octobre 2019. Dans les locaux de l’Office togolais des recettes (OTR), l’institut de formation…

01/01/1970

“This is no ordinary time and this calls for no ordinary response,” says Bank Vice President

For more than 55 years, the African Development Bank has played a vital role in the continent’s development. The Bank’s…

01/01/1970

African Development Bank Group’s Board of Governors to hold fifth extraordinary meeting in Abidjan

Who:              Board of Governors of the African…