African Development Bank (www.afdb.org) President Akinwumi Adesina, has this week in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, pleaded for Africans to embrace technology, and governments to urgently move away from “investing in the jobs of the past,...
“Your presence at the Bank’s headquarters matters. So is your voice. It is encouraging hearing you,” says Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (www.afdb.org), addressing the institution’s Governors for Central Africa in...
The African Development Bank Group (www.afdb.org) has announced the debarment of ALG Global Concept Nigeria Limited, a construction company registered in Nigeria and its Managing Director, Mr. Abuharaira Labaran Gero, for a period of...
The African Development Bank Group, through its Trade Finance operations, has approved a US$14.12 million facility to support the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s membership in the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI). This is a...
The details of the “Desert to Power Initiative” have been outlined as part of the Paris Agreement climate change talks at COP24 in Katowice, Poland. Energy poverty in Africa is estimated to cost the...
Adesina: “the needle is shifting, pointing to the right direction, pointing to Africa” The curtain fell on a three-day marathon investment marketplace, at the weekend, with transactions worth billions of dollars sealed. The Africa...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved the Bank’s Policy on Non-sovereign Operations (NSO). The document provides the framework within which the Bank through its private sector lending window...
With over 800 million people worldwide suffering from hunger and more than two billion affected by malnutrition, food insecurity remains a real threat to global development. But could the future of food in the...
The President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has made an urgent call to give farmers across the continent new technologies with the potential to transform agricultural production. Adesina said the...
