The West Africa Monitor is produced by the country economists of the African Development Bank Group’s (AfDB) West Africa Regional Department (ORWA) and Nigeria Department (ORNG). The current issue has been produced in close collaboration with the Bank’s Energy Department (ONEC) and Statistics...

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Monday, August 18 in Abidjan, approved a US $60 million grant investment as part of a $210 million package for immediate implementation to help strengthen West Africa’s public health systems in response to the Ebola crisis.  The Bank’s...

Using m-health & governance systems, strengthening infrastructure, and training health workers “We share the plight of the Governments of the West Africa region in fighting the Ebola Virus Disease. The African Development Bank stands ready to support all countries in the region to stop the...

The competition for the 3rd and 4th editions of the Education Research in Africa Award (ERAA) is now open. The Award aims to promote high quality education research, produced by African universities, research centres and research networks. It is awarded to four categories of researchers or...

After nearly a week of wheeling and dealing in Washington D.C., business leaders and policy makers from the United States and Africa are calling the first ever U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit an enormous success. Recognizing African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka by name for his role in...

"A prosperous Africa is exactly what the world needs to get out of recession," African Development Bank Group (AfDB) President Donald Kaberuka told a group of business, policy and economic leaders in Washington, DC on Monday. While there are challenges when it comes to encouraging people to...

At the invitation of the President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, African Development Bank Group (AfDB) President Donald Kaberuka made an official visit to Bata and Malabo from July 30 to August 1, 2014. During an audience granted to him, Kaberuka...

Hitting on the importance of the African economy, African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka kicked off "Believe in Africa Day" on Sunday, ahead of the US-African Leader's Summit taking place this week in Washington, DC. "We have to figure out how to finance our own development," he said of...

A new African Development Bank (AfDB) report entitled “Food Subsidies and Direct Social Transfer: Toward a Better Targeting of Monetary Poverty and Deprivation in Tunisia” has just been launched in Tunis. The new report, produced by the bank’s North Africa Department (ORNA), covers a broad range of...