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Charting Economic Progress: African Development Bank’s initiatives spur structural transformation and job opportunities in Togo
16-May-2024 - 2023 was an exciting year for Togo, with the African Development Bank setting the stage for transformative initiatives across various sectors. The year kicked off 2023 with the final round of the Forum of Agricultural Producers in Togo in the northern city of Kara, heralding the inauguration of the new Kara market, a project financed by the Bank and site visits to future agricultural processing centers and agricultural development planning and production zones, called ZAAPs. The event underscored Kara’s ambition to be the leading agricultural city in the country.
In Zagora, access to an abundant supply of blue gold is boosting tourism
03-May-2024 - To the south of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, the Draa river winds through lush palm groves before disappearing into the dunes of the Sahara Desert. The valley of the Kingdom’s longest river is home to one of the most beautiful oases as well as a unique cultural heritage site, with its pisé (rammed earth) kasbahs (citadels) and former Berber ksours (castles).
Water for the future: Tangiers takes steps to secure its blue gold
26-Apr-2024 - The white city of Tangiers wakes gently at daybreak. Schoolchildren mill up and down the main streets of the old town, the medina, crossing paths with the crowd heading to offices and a few morning tourists. Overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar at the northern tip of Morocco, Tangiers is a cosmopolitan place and gateway to the great continent of Africa. Every year, its timeless atmosphere attracts millions of tourists, who come to criss-cross its narrow paved streets.
Gabon: Bank-funded project provides continuous supply of drinking water for thousands
19-Apr-2024 - Launched in Gabon in 2019, the drinking water component of the Libreville Integrated Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Programme (PIAEPAL) is entering its completion phase. Over 20,000 residents and workers at seven administrative sites in the capital (Léon Mba secondary school, Indjendjet secondary school, Omar Bongo technical high school, Ecole nationale de gendarmerie, Fopi, Nkembo Hospital, Central prison) now have a continuous supply of drinking water.
National Dialysis Centre and National Medical Imaging Centre in Bangui, Central African Republic, give patients new hope and a smile
16-Apr-2024 - Afrika Finance is responsible for managing the National Dialysis Centre and the National Imaging Centre, funded with backing from the African Development Fund. Its CEO, Bel-Gaza Beyina, is proud of the results so far.
The Guiguidou Hydro-Agricultural Rice Project Showcases Agricultural Cooperation between the African Development Bank and China
02-Apr-2024 - Given the key role sustainable agricultural development will play in Africa’s future, the African Development Bank has embarked on a groundbreaking partnership aimed at transforming agricultural practices across the continent.
DataPathology: combining artificial intelligence and digital technology to combat cervical cancer
02-Apr-2024 - The sun rises over El Jadida, a fortified city in south-western Morocco, bathed by the Atlantic Ocean. Pathologist Hicham El Attar is already at work. As a co-founder of DataPathology, he analyses and diagnoses 3D images to detect the slightest cell that could indicate cervical cancer.
Morocco: Maison Malake – the social cooperative revolutionizing cashew nuts
20-Mar-2024 - As night falls over Marrakech’s medina, wrought-iron lanterns illuminate the narrow streets of the souk. The air is filled with scents of saffron and mint, and the metallic clang of the water carriers’ cymbals punctuates the buzz from the maze of alleyways.
Senegal: Third drinking water treatment plant at Keur Momar Sarr, built with African Development Bank backing, substantially enhances water service in Dakar and surrounding area
18-Mar-2024 - The Project relating to the construction of a third drinking water treatment plant in Keur Momar Sarr (KMS3), launched in 2017 in the Louga department, is a major drinking water facility supplied by Senegal’s Lac de Guiers. The plant produces an additional 200,000 m3 of drinking water per day. Water is distributed it over the newly-built 920 kilometre-long network and through a 216-km-long pipeline to 85 household connections.
Senegal: African Development Bank project improves access to drinking water and sanitation for two cities and three rural areas
07-Mar-2024 - Launched in Senegal in 2014, the Water and Sanitation Sector Project ends this December 2024. With $15 million in funding from the African Development Fund, the African Development Bank Group’s concessional window and the Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, the project has helped improve access to drinking water and sanitation for people in the rural areas of Louga, Kaffrine, and Tambacounda and in the cities of Dakar and Ziguinchor.
Senegal: African Development Bank improves quality of life for hundreds of thousands of rural people by facilitating their access to basic socio-economic infrastructure
15-Feb-2024 - The Emergency Community Development Programme Support Project, benefiting from €43.32 million in support from the African Development Bank Group, has been implemented in Senegal since 2019. It is helping to significantly improve people's access to basic socio-economic infrastructure in rural areas.
Democratic Republic of Congo: African Development Bank projects returns thousands of children from cobalt mines to schools
08-Feb-2024 - Launched in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019, the Support Project for the Alternative Welfare of Children and Young People Involved in the Cobalt Supply Chain (PABEA-Cobalt) is nearing the end, in December 2024, of its planned implementation.
Morocco: The Assafae association for sustainable development, concrete support for women entrepreneurs
05-Feb-2024 - The Entrepreneurial Profile of Morocco, published in December 2023 by EiNA, the African Development Bank and the Moroccan Ministry of Economy and Finance, pays particular attention to the situation of Moroccan entrepreneurs and their challenges.
Sowing Seeds of Success: African Development Bank credit scheme boosts an agro-dealer cocoa farm fertilizer supply tenfold in Côte d'Ivoire
26-Jan-2024 - Under a vast blue sky, the Atlantic Ocean waves embrace Côte d’Ivoire’s San Pedro city’s shores alongside a warm breeze from the Gulf of Guinea, signaling to Ivorian agro-dealer Ribou Adama that the day is special. Today, Adama will receive a truckload of significant stock for his family business, which sells fertilizers, phytosanitary products, and agricultural tools. As the old, heavy truck maneuvers towards his store in the southwestern port city, Adama eagerly prepares to unveil his treasure: fertilizers for cocoa trees.
African Development Bank-funded road project is paving the way to better health, livelihoods for local communities in Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire
23-Jan-2024 - Even ahead of its completion, an African Development Bank Group-supported transport project to deepen regional trade and integration in four West African countries is enhancing the wellbeing of local communities through better healthcare access and higher incomes. As a result, travel costs and times for communities in South-eastern Liberia have already fallen steeply.
Burkina Faso: the African Development Bank supports training for design engineers at the ISGE
21-Dec-2023 - Twenty-four-year-old Josias Idani is looking forward to his career with confidence. Following his studies, which led to a design engineer diploma in June 2023, he now nurtures his goal of expanding the company he formed with two classmates in November 2022. The first steps look promising. “We specialize in energy audits. Since we started the business, we have worked for the local office of a maritime transport company and an international NGO. They’re small steps, but it’s a good start,” says the delighted young man.
Egyptian officials extol African Development Bank financing instrument’s high impact
19-Dec-2023 - The African Development Bank has received praise for financing a multi-million-dollar life-changing sanitation project in Upper Egypt that will provide potable water to thousands of families and help boost local agriculture. The “Integrated Rural Sanitation in Upper Egypt in Luxor” (IRSUE-Luxor), the first-ever Bank-funded project to deliver integrated sanitation systems in Egypt, is part of the National Rural Sanitation Program to connect more than 22,000 households to sewerage systems upon completion.
African Development Bank supports small livestock farmers in Zambia to adapt to climate change
16-Nov-2023 - Smallholder livestock farmers in Zambia are now better equipped to adapt to climate change.