The African Development Bank and the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) are poised to boost business opportunities in Africa’s cocoa sector, including youth employment and empowering women participation. Both institutions recently met in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in order to see how they can...

The air transport industry in Africa is on the resurgence and aviation is, “The next infrastructure growth frontier for Africa”. This was the message at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Aviation Day for Africa and the Middle East held at Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB), in its meeting on June 24, 2015 in Abidjan, approved the institution’s Knowledge Management Strategy (KMS) for 2015-2020. The vision of this Knowledge Management Strategy is for the AfDB to become the premier knowledge institution in...

The African Economic Conference (AEC) 2015, jointly organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will take place from November 2-4 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The...

On Wednesday, May 27, 2015, Day 3 of the African Development Bank’s 50th Annual Meetings, a panel session was dedicated to a discussion on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries. Among other issues addressed by participants, was the New Development Bank (NDB), the...

Le 15 juin 2015 à Lomé, la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) et le Gouvernement du Togo ont signé un accord de don du Fonds d’assistance au secteur privé africain (FAPA), d’un montant de 817 146 dollars EU (488,6 millions de francs CFA), au titre d’appui à la reconstruction des marchés et aux...

The President of the International University of Grand-Bassam (IUGB), Saliou Touré, accompanied by his close aides, and senior politicians and officials from Grand-Bassam, presented the "Donald Kaberuka Auditorium" in honour of the outgoing African Development Bank President. The event took...

Dans le cadre d’un processus participatif impliquant plus d’une soixantaine de parties prenantes représentantes les administrations, acteurs de la société civile et du secteur privé, partenaires techniques et financiers, institutions de recherche, …), le Groupe de la Banque africaine de...

A young leaders' program, MyAfricanStartUp, honored its 2015 winners during the Annual Meetings  of the African Development Bank (AfDB) held in Abidjan from 25 to 29 May 2015. After 48 hours of presentations to the judges, Ange Emmanuelle Effi from Côte d’Ivoire won the first prize,...