The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a €5 million equity participation in Investisseur & Partenaire pour le Développement 2 (IPDEV.2), to support Small Growing Businesses (SGBs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Mali, Niger,...

Efforts by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to upgrade Africa’s agriculture sector is yielding good results with about 5.6 million people benefiting from the Bank’s interventions in the past year. Among other things, AfDB plans scale up its focus on regional integration in 2017 as...

The African Development Bank has identified political will as a key ingredient to Africa’s agricultural transformation agenda and to pull millions of people out of poverty. Speaking during a TV debate on Tuesday, May 23, which focused on “Leadership for Agricultural Transformation...

The African Development Bank, in partnership with the Organisation pour la Promotion de la Contribution Active de la Femme Rwandaise au Developpement (SERUKA) – a national women’s organization focusing on women’s economic empowerment in Rwanda –has launched the Rwanda Honey Value Chain...

Grâce au fond fiducaire  de coopération économique Corée-Afrique, la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) appuie le nouveau Programme de renforcement des capacités en nutrition et sécurité alimentaire en Afrique de l’Ouest (...

Thirteen African countries have signed a series of partnership agreements with India to enhance the supply of agricultural machinery, credit advancement to farmers and scientific cooperation. Among other deals, the farm machinery suppliers from the Indian state of Gujarat signed agreements with...

As the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Annual Meetings drew to a close, so, too, did the scheduled events and bilateral meetings held by the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF). Beginning on Sunday, 21 May with a meeting of its Management Board, the ALSF hosted African Ministers, technical...