The African Development Bank (AfDB) and WWF will launch today a joint global call for action and commitment from governments and other institutions to combat the rampant illicit wildlife trafficking scourge that is robbing Africa of precious natural resources and posing a major threat to stability...
Thursday 9 May 2013 - Donald Kaberuka, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB); Rajiv Shah, the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and Gunilla Carlsson, the Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation, have announced the creation of...
African leaders are firmly committed to lead new policies based on a strong growth, rocketing demography and huge natural resource potential, to create the conditions of Africa’s economic rebirth.
Gathered in Marrakesh since Monday for the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB)...
Event: AfDB Annual Meetings 2013 – Opening Ceremony
Your Excellencies, friends, last weekend Africa’s leaders gathered in Addis Ababa for the 50th Anniversary of the African Union. It was a time to assess the journey of the last half-century and look forward to the next 50 years.
For the...
Day 3
The 48th Annual Meeting of the African Development Bank – and the 39th of the African Development Fund – were officially launched under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco this morning. The King himself may only have been able to send us a message – we are “a...
Political leaders, finance experts have expressed the need to give priority to Africa’s premier resource, its people through good governance and the use of proceeds from natural resources to train and build capacity for sustainable development.
The African Development Bank (AfDB), holding its...
Day 2
Discussions continue throughout the night at the Bank’s Annual Meetings in Marrakesh: some may be had around the dinner table, but most are round the desk. Keyboards are pounded, while mobile phones reverberate. I stopped working on my opening ceremony speech at just before 3 o’clock this...
Day 1
We celebrated Africa’s 50th birthday last weekend: the OAU came into being on May 25, 1963. The message was clear: political independence came long ago; and economic independence is hot on its heels.
And this week we come to Marrakesh, the great Ochre City, which has always been a...
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has identified agriculture as a key sector that can enable Africa’s economic transformation.
“Agriculture remains a crucial cornerstone to Africa’s economic transformation, and there are many examples where it has been pivotal to the realised growth, including...