Four students from the International University of Grand Bassam (UIGB), located some 30 kilometres to the south of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, explain how the programme prepared them for studies abroad. Kingbewe Windi: “International University of Grand-Bassam is really a pole of excellence”...

The President of the International University of Grand-Bassam (IUGB), Saliou Touré, accompanied by his close aides, and senior politicians and officials from Grand-Bassam, presented the "Donald Kaberuka Auditorium" in honour of the outgoing African Development Bank President. The event took...

The African Development Bank believes in children. They are the future.  Its investments in the water, health and education sectors improve the lives of children on the continent. These include supporting regional member countries in building water infrastructure, health centres and schools,...

The African Development Bank’s (AfDB’s) formal engagement with civil society began with the first AfDB/ NGO consultative meeting, held in Abidjan in 1990. Following that meeting, the Bank developed a policy paper and a set of procedures, mechanisms, and guidelines to orient its cooperation with...

A large African Development Bank delegation headed by the Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, will take part in the third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), taking place from July 13-16, 2015, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The conference is expected to address...

A forum was held on Thursday, May 28, Day 4 of the African Development Bank's (AfDB) Annual Meetings, involving representatives from the Bank and from civil society organizations (CSOs). Several topics were on the agenda, particularly citizen oversight, accountability and the climate. One of the...

African economies are expected to register robust growth in 2015 expanding by 4.5 per cent in 2015, and may reach 5 per cent in 2016, compared to 3.9 per cent registered in 2014 and 3.3 per cent globally, according to the 14th edition of African Economic Outlook 2015, released on Monday,...

African media and its support agencies must act to narrow the gap between media content and national development agendas, journalists heard Monday.  Speaking at the event, “Vox Populi Vox Dei : Africa’s Media, Speaking for Whom?”, at the ongoing African Development Bank Annual Meetings in...