The founding shareholders of the Africa50 Infrastructure Fund came together on Monday, May 25 in Abidjan at a meeting held during the African Development Bank's (AfDB) 50th Annual Meetings. The aim of this meeting was to discuss progress since the launch of the capitalisation process on April 8, 2015. The meeting was attended by a number of African Ministers and other government representatives. 

Dinesh Sharma, Temporary Governor for India, and Charles Boamah, African Development (AfDB) Vice-President in charge of Finance, on May 25, 2015 in Abidjan, inked a protocol accord, related to the replenishment of the country’s technical cooperation agreement. The agreement comes in the margins of the AfDB’s Annual Meetings, and on the heels of a generous contribution to the African Development Fund 13^th Replenishment (ADF-13) by India, in which it increased its pledge by 57.28% (as compared to ADF-12) – with a contribution of UA 12,364,333 (INR 1.03 billion).

On Monday, May 25 in Abidjan, Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), convened African leaders past and present to provoke debate on a vision for the Continent in 50 years’ time. 

Africa’s best and brightest, including Jean Guy Afrika, Zeinab Camara, Isaac Kwaku Fokou, Ashish Thakkar and Estelle Youssouffa, challenged established leaders Abdourahmane Cissé, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, Acha Leke and Thierry Zomahoun.

The African Development Bank’s Gender Equality Index shows how to make gender equality a reality

The African Development Bank unveiled on Monday, May 25 the first-ever Gender Equality Index for Africa, aimed at informing policies to transform economies and to propel governments to adopt an ambitious agenda for making gender equality a reality throughout the continent.

Continent should capitalise on youth, develop rural-urban trade corridors

With Africa’s population set to double by 2050, modernising local economies will be vital to make the continent more competitive and to increase people’s living standards, according to the African Economic Outlook 2015, released at the African Development Bank Group’s 50^th Annual Meetings.