China is Africa’s largest trading partner for the sixth year running, according to Charles Boamah, African Development Bank’s Vice-President of Finance. The trade volume between the two amounted to US $220 billion in 2014. This is reportedly more than double the trade level between the United...

Strategic planning is key to transforming Africa’s transport sector, according to experts present at the African Development Bank’s Transport Forum held at its headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, on November 26 and 27. At a session on “Sector Reforms, Governance and Institutional...

Representatives of 14th Project Preparation Facilities (PPFs) who are members of the Project Preparation Facilities Network (PPFN) met at the African Development Bank (AfDB) headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, on November 16, 2015 at the annual meetings of the Infrastructure Consortium for...

Stakeholders from the African Union Commission (AUC), the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), Regional Economic Communities, Project Preparation Facilities, and development partners, met recently to validate NEPAD Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility’s (NEPAD-IPPF) Strategic...

“Innovative financing to meet Africa’s growing infrastructure demand” was the topic discussed during a plenary session on Day 2 of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Transport Forum, on Friday, November 27 in Abidjan. Panelists shared experience on AfDB Group financial products as well as...

One of Africa’s biggest infrastructure challenges is to be found in the transport sector and the negative financial and economic impacts of this deficit cannot be stressed enough. “Financing-Public Private Partnership, how to push for more?” was the title of a panel discussion held at the...

The need for cleaner and more efficient vehicles, public transport and adequate infrastructure for non-motorised transport in Africa is an issue that has received attention at the ongoing Transport Forum in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Participants at the two-day African Development Bank...

Although government policy-makers and their development partners both recognize the importance of investing in infrastructure and using a fragility lens when making broad policy decisions, there has been little attempt to systematically integrate thinking about fragility into investments in roads....

The first African Development Bank Transport Forum will bring together high-level government representatives, experts, development partners, international organizations, the private sector, academia, NGOs and other stakeholders to discuss the key issues and challenges facing the...