16-May-2024 - 2023 was an exciting year for Togo, with the African Development Bank setting the stage for transformative initiatives across various sectors.
The year kicked off 2023 with the final round of the Forum of Agricultural Producers in Togo in the northern city of Kara, heralding the inauguration of the new Kara market, a project financed by the Bank and site visits to future agricultural processing centers and agricultural development planning and production zones, called ZAAPs. The event underscored Kara’s ambition to be the leading agricultural city in the country.
03-May-2024 - To the south of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, the Draa river winds through lush palm groves before disappearing into the dunes of the Sahara Desert. The valley of the Kingdom’s longest river is home to one of the most beautiful oases as well as a unique cultural heritage site, with its pisé (rammed earth) kasbahs (citadels) and former Berber ksours (castles).
26-Apr-2024 - The white city of Tangiers wakes gently at daybreak. Schoolchildren mill up and down the main streets of the old town, the medina, crossing paths with the crowd heading to offices and a few morning tourists.
Overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar at the northern tip of Morocco, Tangiers is a cosmopolitan place and gateway to the great continent of Africa. Every year, its timeless atmosphere attracts millions of tourists, who come to criss-cross its narrow paved streets.
19-Apr-2024 - Launched in Gabon in 2019, the drinking water component of the Libreville Integrated Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Programme (PIAEPAL) is entering its completion phase. Over 20,000 residents and workers at seven administrative sites in the capital (Léon Mba secondary school, Indjendjet secondary school, Omar Bongo technical high school, Ecole nationale de gendarmerie, Fopi, Nkembo Hospital, Central prison) now have a continuous supply of drinking water.
16-Apr-2024 - Afrika Finance is responsible for managing the National Dialysis Centre and the National Imaging Centre, funded with backing from the African Development Fund. Its CEO, Bel-Gaza Beyina, is proud of the results so far.
02-Apr-2024 - Given the key role sustainable agricultural development will play in Africa’s future, the African Development Bank has embarked on a groundbreaking partnership aimed at transforming agricultural practices across the continent.
02-Apr-2024 - The sun rises over El Jadida, a fortified city in south-western Morocco, bathed by the Atlantic Ocean. Pathologist Hicham El Attar is already at work. As a co-founder of DataPathology, he analyses and diagnoses 3D images to detect the slightest cell that could indicate cervical cancer.
20-Mar-2024 - As night falls over Marrakech’s medina, wrought-iron lanterns illuminate the narrow streets of the souk. The air is filled with scents of saffron and mint, and the metallic clang of the water carriers’ cymbals punctuates the buzz from the maze of alleyways.
18-Mar-2024 - The Project relating to the construction of a third drinking water treatment plant in Keur Momar Sarr (KMS3), launched in 2017 in the Louga department, is a major drinking water facility supplied by Senegal’s Lac de Guiers. The plant produces an additional 200,000 m3 of drinking water per day. Water is distributed it over the newly-built 920 kilometre-long network and through a 216-km-long pipeline to 85 household connections.
07-Mar-2024 - Launched in Senegal in 2014, the Water and Sanitation Sector Project ends this December 2024. With $15 million in funding from the African Development Fund, the African Development Bank Group’s concessional window and the Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, the project has helped improve access to drinking water and sanitation for people in the rural areas of Louga, Kaffrine, and Tambacounda and in the cities of Dakar and Ziguinchor.
15-Feb-2024 - The Emergency Community Development Programme Support Project, benefiting from €43.32 million in support from the African Development Bank Group, has been implemented in Senegal since 2019. It is helping to significantly improve people's access to basic socio-economic infrastructure in rural areas.
08-Feb-2024 - Launched in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019, the Support Project for the Alternative Welfare of Children and Young People Involved in the Cobalt Supply Chain (PABEA-Cobalt) is nearing the end, in December 2024, of its planned implementation.
05-Feb-2024 - The Entrepreneurial Profile of Morocco, published in December 2023 by EiNA, the African Development Bank and the Moroccan Ministry of Economy and Finance, pays particular attention to the situation of Moroccan entrepreneurs and their challenges.
26-Jan-2024 - Under a vast blue sky, the Atlantic Ocean waves embrace Côte d’Ivoire’s San Pedro city’s shores alongside a warm breeze from the Gulf of Guinea, signaling to Ivorian agro-dealer Ribou Adama that the day is special. Today, Adama will receive a truckload of significant stock for his family business, which sells fertilizers, phytosanitary products, and agricultural tools. As the old, heavy truck maneuvers towards his store in the southwestern port city, Adama eagerly prepares to unveil his treasure: fertilizers for cocoa trees.
23-Jan-2024 - Even ahead of its completion, an African Development Bank Group-supported transport project to deepen regional trade and integration in four West African countries is enhancing the wellbeing of local communities through better healthcare access and higher incomes. As a result, travel costs and times for communities in South-eastern Liberia have already fallen steeply.
21-Dec-2023 - Twenty-four-year-old Josias Idani is looking forward to his career with confidence. Following his studies, which led to a design engineer diploma in June 2023, he now nurtures his goal of expanding the company he formed with two classmates in November 2022. The first steps look promising.
“We specialize in energy audits. Since we started the business, we have worked for the local office of a maritime transport company and an international NGO. They’re small steps, but it’s a good start,” says the delighted young man.
19-Dec-2023 - The African Development Bank has received praise for financing a multi-million-dollar life-changing sanitation project in Upper Egypt that will provide potable water to thousands of families and help boost local agriculture.
The “Integrated Rural Sanitation in Upper Egypt in Luxor” (IRSUE-Luxor), the first-ever Bank-funded project to deliver integrated sanitation systems in Egypt, is part of the National Rural Sanitation Program to connect more than 22,000 households to sewerage systems upon completion.