Interviews
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Hydric stress is a major concern in Morocco
22-Mar-2024 - Water is a vital resource that ignores geographical boundaries. Climate change is transforming our relationship with it, creating shortages and flooding. The number of water-related disasters is growing, cracking desiccated earth in the Horn of Africa, creating extreme flooding in Los Angeles and beaching the gondolas in Venice in dry canals.
Climate disruption is a reality and adapting to it is a necessity. We now face not a climate emergency but a climate shock., 22-Mar-2024 -
Samia Ben Abdallah, the Tunisian entrepreneur who dreams of conquering the world with her AWA leather goods brand
09-Aug-2023 - Methodical, thoughtful and rigorous, Samia Ben Abdallah Ben Khalifa never rushes into anything. In 2017, the graduate of the National School of Architecture and Urban Design in Tunis launched her own business: AWA, for “Architect with Artisan”, a line of leather goods and various accessories.
World Water Day: Osward Chanda, Director for Water and Sanitation Development, reflects on the African Development Bank’s interventions to help Africa achieve SDG Goal 6 on water and sanitation
23-Mar-2023 - This year's World Water Day theme is “accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis”. What does this theme mean to you?, 23-Mar-2023 -
Trans-Sahara Highway: “The Niger section is almost complete and offers new economic opportunities for the population”, Alberic Houssou, Project Manager in Niger for the African Development Bank
13-Feb-2023 - The Trans-Sahara Highway extends from Lagos to Algiers, linking West Africa to Central and North Africa. In Niger, construction of the road is nearing completion.
, 13-Feb-2023 - The Trans-Sahara Highway, linking West Africa to North Africa from Lagos to Algiers, has entered its final construction phase. The 9,400-kilometer road is critical to establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area. The African Development Fund, the African Development Bank Group’s concessional lending window, is one of the key financiers.
Regular economic performance analysis could bolster investment decisions in Africa, says African Development Bank Chief Economist
23-Jan-2023 - The African Development Bank Group’s Acting Chief Economist and Vice President for Economic Governance and Knowledge Management, Professor Kevin Chika Urama, shares his thoughts on the inaugural Africa’s Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook report, released on Thursday 19 January.
‘Natural gas is not an ideological issue, it’s a pragmatic one,’ says AfDB’s Adesina
15-Nov-2022 - The president of the African Development Bank shares his views on investment opportunities, financial management and the growing threat of climate insecurity.
At this year’s African Investment Forum in Abidjan, Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), proudly announced $63.8bn in investment pledges for the continent.
Africa Investment Forum 2022: Mobihealth CEO Funmi Adewara on what the USTDA grant means for the company and its strategic plans
26-Oct-2022 - The $67 million Mobihealth Telemedicine Project is an innovative digital health transaction involving the establishment of a fully integrated telemedicine proprietary platform. It is one of eight deals, with a total value of nearly $5 billion, that were presented at the Africa Investment Forum’s Virtual Boardrooms event held in March 2022. Presented under the ‘Women as Investment Champions’ pillar, these transactions involved entities either founded or led by women or with a significant gender impact.
“Africa and the Bank have shown incredible resilience to the pandemic”
10-Jun-2022 - The Covid-19 pandemic led to a global economic recession, but what has been its impact on African economies?
What makes this crisis unique is not so much its magnitude – Africa has experienced other major crises – but the confluence of multiple crises contained within it.
The Covid-19 pandemic, with its countless victims, has sapped many countries of their vital forces. Some 127 million children in southern and eastern Africa have had their school attendance suspended, with detrimental...
Leveraging the power of Special Drawing Rights: how developed countries can help boost Africa’s development
26-May-2022 - Q1: At the African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa, in February, African leaders called for providing Africa with a larger part of the re-allocated Special Drawing Rights. Do you think Africa can succeed in securing a bigger settlement?, 26-May-2022 - FAQS: What are Special Drawing Rights and why do they matter for Africa?
La Banque en République démocratique du Congo - Interview avec Solomane Koné, Directeur Général par intérim de la Région Afrique centrale pour la Banque africaine de développement
07-Oct-2020 - Que représente cette enveloppe pour la lutte contre la Covid‑19 dans le contexte actuel des relations entre la RDC et la Banque ?
African Economic Outlook Supplement: Here is how African countries can deal with COVID-19, reopen economies and accelerate recovery, by Charles Lufumpa
07-Jul-2020 - Charles Lufumpa, the African Development Bank’s Acting Chief Economist and Vice President for Economic Governance and Knowledge Management speaks on the recent release of the African Economic Outlook 2020 Supplement. He shares policy recommendations to cushion the shock of COVID-19 on countries.
COVID-19 presents unique opportunities to speed up Africa’s integration agenda and implementation of AfCFTA
27-May-2020 - The Africa Regional Integration Index (ARII 2019), a new report jointly launched by the African Development Bank, UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the Africa Union (AU), highlights the tremendous promise regional integration holds for Africa post COVID-19.
Director of Regional Development and Regional Integration at the Bank,Moono Mupotola provides insights on the way forward.
African Development Bank Chief Financial Economist Edson Mpyisi discusses the locust crisis in the East and Horn of Africa regions and the Bank’s work to help affected African nations
28-Apr-2020 - A new wave of billions of locusts is set to devour crops across the East and Horn of Africa region, setting off concerns about regional food security and livelihoods of millions of farmers. We asked African Development Bank Chief Financial Economist Edson Mpyisi about the locust crisis and the Bank’s work to help affected African nations to cope.
Question: Locust swarms come around every 10 to 15 years, they're nothing new. What makes this season's swarms in East Africa and the Horn different?
A chat with Dr. Awuese Oku, Chief Learning and Development Officer about EDGE Certification and what it means for the African Development Bank
16-Mar-2020 - 1 - What is Edge Certification and why should we be excited about it?
Launched at the World Economic Forum in 2011, Economic Dividends for Gender Equality (EDGE) is the leading global standard for gender equality in the workplace. The rationale is to measure through evidence-based data, progress made in mainstreaming gender in the workplace and with an organisation’s external partners. EDGE Certification has been designed to assist companies create an optimal workplace for both women and men and leverage the...
NSO Policy Interviews – Victoria Chisala
16-Jan-2020 - 5 Questions to Victoria Chisala, Acting Director of the Policy and Strategy Department’s on the African Development Bank’s Non-Sovereign Operations policy.*
What is the objective of the Non-Sovereign Operations policy?
The objective of the NSO policy dissemination is to expand the Bank’s engagement with the private sector to increase synergies between us. It is also an opportunity to provide information about the type of projects we finance or invest in as the African...
Interview with Jennifer Blanke, Vice President Agriculture, Human and Social Development at the African Development Bank Group, ahead of the 2019 Gender Summit
22-Nov-2019 - The African Development Bank and the government of Rwanda are hosting the Global Gender Summit from 25 to 27 November in Kigali. The Summit is being organised by the Multilateral Development Banks’ (MDBs) Working Group on gender, and will be held for the first time in Africa.
We speak to Bank Vice President, Jennifer Blanke, to find out more about this high-profile event.
1 - This year the African Development Bank is hosting the Global Gender Summit for the first time on the continent. What are your...
2019 conference on land policy in Africa: why it matters for the continent, by Cosmas Milton Ochieng
21-Nov-2019 -
Cosmas Milton Ochieng, an expert in natural resource governance and economic development in Africa, is the Director of the African Natural Resource Centre at the African Development Bank.
Ashish J. Thakkar: Forget oil and gold. Young Africans are our greatest natural resource
22-Jul-2019 - In line with its commitment to Africa’s youth, the African Development Bank established the Presidential Youth Advisory Group (PYAG), a think tank for new, innovative ideas and financing instruments to support youth entrepreneurship and employment in Africa.
Interview with AfDB’s Principal Evaluation Officer, Detlev Puetz
06-Mar-2019 - In this interview he granted to us shortly after a presentation on agriculture, during AEC in Addis Ababa, AfDB’s Principal Evaluation Officer, Detlev Puetz, suggests new ways for managing the crisis and supporting a post-crisis renaissance in Africa.
“How to have African middle class, at least partly, embrace the great traditions of agriculture trade and business in Africa, and not selling out to foreign interests. These are for me the key questions,” Bank Group Principal Evaluation Officer, Detlev Puetz said.
"Bumbuna Hydoelectric Plant Will Bring Down the Cost of Doing Business in Sierra Leone"
06-Mar-2019 - The African Development Bank-backed Bumbuna hydropower plant meant to provide electricity to Sierra Leonians and thus boost the economy was inaugurated on November 6, 2009. For Samuel Onwona, Resident Representative of the African Development Bank in Freetown, Bumbuna will bring down the cost of business in the country with a much cheaper, sustainable and reliable source of energy.
Question: What are the immediate or short term benefits of Bumbuna for the economy and the people of Sierra Leone?