Southern Africa is the worst impacted by AIDS; in three countries in this sub-region, the national adult HIV prevalence rate now exceeds 20%. These countries, which have the highest adult HIV prevalence in the world, are Swaziland (25.9%), Botswana (24.8%), and Lesotho (23.6%) (UNAIDS, 2010). The...

One of the targets for reducing extreme poverty in Africa involves halving the proportion of people living in absolute poverty from 48 percent in 1990 to 24 percent by 2015. Available data so far indicate that it is only the North African countries of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia as...

.more_iteration {display: none;} ​ Context The Rural Enterprise Project (REP) aims at alleviating poverty, slowing rural-urban drift, contributing to the creation of sustainable jobs. The project also aims at addressing the low level of technology and productivity, low income and un-...

The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Donald Kaberuka, the former British Prime Minister Rt. Hon Gordon Brown, and renowned computer scientist, and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, Sir Tim Berners-Lee will convene a high level meeting on Education and Technology...

AfDB Group President, Donald Kaberuka, on Saturday April 28, 2012, at the Mt Kenya Safari Club in Nanyuki, Kenya, told the “UWEPO” “to play their role, taking on the challenge of transforming the immense opportunities that Africa has into real possibilities so that future generations of Africans...

Post-Gadaffi Libya could generate significant economic and social benefits for Tunisia and its other neighbors, according to a new report from the African Development Bank (AfDB). The report, in the AfDB’s latest North Africa Quarterly Analytical, is entitled: “New Libya, New Neighborhood: What...

Southern African governments could use public spending in their battle against the extremely high rates of HIV/AIDS in their countries and still achieve a positive economic impact, argues a new paper from the African Development Bank (AfDB). The working paper from the AfDB’s Chief Economist’s...

Malaria hits Africa the hardest. More than 80 percent of all malaria cases around the world each year occur in Africa, and the continent suffers more than 90 percent of the fatalities caused by the disease. Children are the most vulnerable of the deaths caused by malaria, 86 percent are among...

The African Development Bank is organizing a workshop  on 23 May to follow up from the recommendations of the Science, Technology and Innovation in Action parallel session on “eLearning, mLearning, eHealth and mHealth” stemming from the 1st Africa Forum on Science Technology and Innovation (...