The Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Africa Hub launched on Tuesday, October 13 in Abidjan its Annual Report for 2014-2015, which outlines the progress made to date in helping the 44 partner countries create strategic frameworks necessary to mobilize investment for realizing their long-term...
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,
I am very pleased today to sign the agreement for the loan of USD 50 million – from the Africa Growing Together Fund (AGTF) – with the Government of Egypt to complement the USD 90 Million loan earlier approved by the African Development...
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2015 CNN Multichoice African journalists’ awards: Ghanaian Thomas Naadi Bitlegma wins AfDB environment award
The judges of the CNN MultiChoice African Journalists of the Year 2015 have announced that Thomas Naadi Bitlegma of Ghana has won the prestigious African Development Bank (AfDB) Environmental Journalist Award. Bitlegma, who works for the TV station Viasat1 in Ghana, was given the award for...
The President of the African Development Bank Group, Akinwumi A. Adesina, and Abdulrahman A. Al Hamidy, Director General Chairman of the Board of the Arab Monetary Fund, met on the margins of the World Bank-IMF 2015 annual meetings in Lima, Peru, to discuss the economic challenges facing the 10...
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund Annual and Spring Meetings bring each year together central bankers, ministers of finance, Heads of DFIs and private sector stakeholders to discuss current issues that are of relevance to the world economy, financial stability, and economic development...
1. Your Excellency, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of the Republic of Turkey. Honourable Ministers, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. Good morning!
2. I want to thank President Erdogan for his strong commitment in addressing the major development...
The Boards of Directors of Africa50 Project Development and Project Finance met on October 6, 2015 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Boards approved the appointment of Akinwumi A. Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, as the new Chairperson of both Boards. Members expressed great...
African Development Bank Group (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina delivered the special keynote address at the first G20 Energy Ministers meeting held in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2, 2015. The meeting organized under the theme “Inclusive Energy Collaboration: Delivering on the G20 Principles” was...
L'édition 2015 du rapport Perspectives économiques en Afrique a été lancée conjointement par la BAD et le PNUD, le vendredi 2 octobre, à Lomé au Togo, en présence du ministre délégué auprès du ministre de l’économie et des finances, chargé du Budget, du président de la...