The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved an African Development Fund (ADF) loan of USD 50 million to finance the third phase of the Skills, Employability and Entrepreneurship Programme (SEEP III) and jobs creation in Rwanda. This Sector Budget Support operation...

The Ivorian Ministry for the Promotion of Youth, Youth Employment, and Civic Engagement and the African Development Bank’s Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department are hosting a workshop to reflect on the imperatives for the successful implementation of its program in Côte d’Ivoire. The workshop...
Within the context of the New Deal on Energy for Africa, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and South Africa's power utility (Eskom) on Wednesday, Thursday, July 7, 2016 in Johannesburg, signed loan facilities for a USD 1.34 billion towards Eskom's capital expenditure program. Eskom's 2016-2020...

The 2017 Triennale of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) – the flagship event of the Association and one of the most important global events on education and training in Africa – will be held in Marrakech in the Kingdom of Morocco from March 15 to 17, 2017. The theme...

After the first regional consultation meeting in Gabon in May 2016 on the fourth Triennale sub-theme “promoting peace and global citizenship through education”, Senegal hosted the next consultation meeting for the West African region on “promoting science, mathematics and information and...
More than 56 million people require humanitarian assistance and more than 17 million are displaced across Africa, according to the African Development Bank. This fragile situation is largely a consequence of conflict and natural disasters, and based on current trends, poverty will be...
Governors, ADF Deputies, Executive Directors, observers from other multilateral development banks, staff of the African Development Bank Group, ladies and gentlemen.... Welcome back to Abidjan – we are delighted to see you again. We are here to discuss not just ‘a’, but in many people’s minds...

The African Development Bank has released a new online tool that enables anyone in the world to see at a glance how the Bank’s projects are boosting Africa’s economies and making Africans’ lives better. MapAfrica 2.0 is an interactive online portal that shows where the Bank is making an impact...
Créer les conditions d’un accompagnement efficace des pays d’Afrique à faible revenu, en l’occurrence ceux en situation de fragilité, dans la réalisation des Objectifs de développement durable (ODD). C’est le credo du Fonds africain de développement (FAD) qui,  pour ce faire, cible quatre...