Video: The Bank’s mandate to “improve the quality of life in Africa” guides overall efforts

One pillar in the African Development Bank’s current 5-tiered roadmap is the goal of “improving the quality of life for Africans.” This pillar lays the foundation that guides the other four pillars. “Everything we do in agriculture, in water supply is to improve the quality of life for Africans,” explains Khaled Sherif, the Bank’s Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery.

G5 Sahel : la Banque africaine de développement accorde 285 millions de dollars pour la lutte contre la pandémie de Covid-19

Le Conseil administration de la Banque africaine de développement a approuvé, mercredi 22 juillet à Abidjan, un appui budgétaire de 284,8 millions de dollars américains pour soutenir les efforts des pays du G5 Sahel (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Tchad) dans la mise en œuvre de leurs plans de riposte à la pandémie de Covid-19 et de relance économique.

Financial, development and humanitarian arms provide $20 million to curb the impact of COVID-19 on refugees and their hosts in the Sahel

Public health, the wellbeing of refugees and the host communities in the Sahel are at the heart of the latest tripartite agreement between the African Development Bank (AfDB), UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and the G5 Sahel signed today. The agreement enables a critical $20 million COVID-19 response across the five countries of the Sahel region.

Malawi to receive $45.07 million for national COVID-19 emergency response from the African Development Bank

Malawi will receive $45.07 million to finance the government’s response to the health, social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, following a decision by the Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) held Wednesday.

The package comprises a loan of $24.48 million, and a grant of $20.59 million as direct budget support, and complements an earlier sum of $8.9 million to six countries in the region, including Malawi, under the Bank’s COVID-19 Response grants to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries last month.