Your Excellency, President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique,
Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross,
Honourable Ministers, Ambassadors, Business leaders, and Friends of Africa, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen.
I wish to thank my dear friends Florizelle Liser, President and CEO of the Corporate...
Flagging data showing the steep fall in trade between Africa and the United States of America, AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina called for a reboot and boost of the erstwhile robust economic relations that existed between the two sides. Adesina, who made the call at a US-Africa business...
The President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, was honored with the 2017 Gene White Lifetime Achievement Award by the Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF) in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, June 13, 2017.
The award is in recognition of Adesina’s life-long...
The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has been rated one of the 100 most reputable personalities in the world on the 2017 Most Reputable People on Earth list released by South Africa-based Reputation Poll. Reputation Poll described the...
12-Jun-2017
G20, African countries explore opportunities to increase investments in Africa at Berlin conference
The President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, joined leaders from African countries and G20 members in Berlin on Monday to discuss opportunities to enhance the business environment and increase investment in Africa. A common refrain on the opening day of the two-day conference...
The President of the African Development Bank Group, Akinwumi Adesina, has encouraged the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellows for Côte d’Ivoire to research and develop innovative ideas that will move Africa forward. Adesina gave the charge when he hosted 18 Ivorian recipients of the 2017...
07-Jun-2017
5.6 million people benefit from AfDB’s agriculture interventions in 2016: Development Effectiveness Review
Efforts by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to upgrade Africa’s agriculture sector is yielding good results with about 5.6 million people benefiting from the Bank’s interventions in the past year.
Among other things, AfDB plans scale up its focus on regional integration in 2017 as...
“The future of Africa’s youth does not lie in migration to Europe; it should not be at the bottom of the Mediterranean; it lies in a prosperous Africa. We must create greater economic opportunities for our youth right at home in Africa.” – Akinwumi Adesina to G7 leaders Current statistics...
The African Development Bank has identified political will as a key ingredient to Africa’s agricultural transformation agenda and to pull millions of people out of poverty. Speaking during a TV debate on Tuesday, May 23, which focused on “Leadership for Agricultural Transformation...