AfDB okays $1.5b to avert looming food crisis
African Development Bank’s President, Akinwumi Adesina (PHOTO/Courtesy). ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- The African Development Bank Group’s Board of Directors has ...
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AfDB Group appoints Dr. Rabah Arezki as Chief Economist
Dr Rabah Arezki, a citizen of Algeria, is currently the Chief Economist for Middle East and North Africa Region at ...
African Development Bank ranks 4th on global index of transparency
African Development Bank President, Akinwumi Adesina (PHOTO/File). ABIDJAN -- Publish What You Fund has ranked the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) ...
COVID-19 CRISIS: AfDB approves $2M emergency assistance for WHO-led measures to curb coronavirus in Africa
African Development Bank President, Akinwumi Adesina. The approved grant will be used by the world body to equip Regional Member ...
African Economic Outlook 2020: Africa’s economy forecast to grow despite external shocks
For the first time in a decade, investment expenditure rather than consumption accounts for more than half of GDP growth ...
AfDB approves €209m loan for expansion of ‘Great North Road’
Akinwumi Adesina, the African Development Bank president. The Bank has passed €209 million to fund the expansion of a highway ...
UN, AfDB call for quick action on SDGs as about 390M Africans live in extreme poverty
UN and African Development Bank officials during the High-Level Meeting at the UN Headquarters in New York (PHOTO/APO) NEW YORK, ...
It’s a scourge! AfDB boss decries child marriage
Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the president of the African Development Bank speaking in a high-level panel on combatting child marriage on ...
AfDB President Adesina to lead delegation to IMF-World Bank Spring meetings
African Development Bank (AfDB) president, Akinwumi Adesina will lead a delegation to IMF-World Bank Spring meetings in Washington DC. (FILE ...
Corruption does not invest in the future, it kills it – AfDB president
Adesina said the Bank could do more with the support of its 80-member countries who are currently discussing options for ...
