African Hidden Champions hosts first regional reception for 2023 in Nairobi
AHC Co-Partners: Franziska Hollmann and Antje Steiner from DEG with Thomas Viot from AfDB.
Banking on nutrition: Akinwumi Adesina’s reappointment to SUN Movement Lead Group boosts efforts towards a malnutrition-free world by 2030
UN Secretary-General António Guterres (left) and African Development Bank Group President Akinwumi A. Adesina at the 2017 G7 Summit, Taormina, Italy.
The African Development Bank appoints Jacques Edjangue Vice President for People and Talent Management
The African Development Bank Group has appointed Jacques Edjangue Vice President for People and Talent Management, effective 16th June 2023.
The African Development Bank to boost electricity and transport infrastructure, value chain development and trade facilitation to spur regional...
Over the next five years, the African Development Bank will invest in cross-border electricity interconnections to strengthen connectivity and increase access to reliable and competitively priced electricity in the East Africa region. The pipeline for regional operations during the first three years of the EA-...
Morocco: African Development Bank mobilizes €120 million to expand access to healthcare
Financing
Project name: Programme to support inclusive access to healthcare infrastructure
Instrument: results-based financing.
Amount: €120 million
Objectives
African Development Bank-funded project boosts universal access to water in Rwanda
Esther Mukantwali at a water point in Rwangara village
African Development Bank, Government of Chad sign $650,000 grant agreement to extend digital financial and non-financial services to women and youth
The Afdb-managed Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility is providing a $650,000 grant to help extend digital services to women and youth entrepreneurs in Chad.
African Development Bank Group, Government of Tanzania launch $54 million initiative to drive job creation for youth in Zanzibar’s blue economy
Dr Hussein Mwinyi, president of Zanzibar (center) , AfDB Tanzania country manager, Patricia Laverley, and delegations representing the government and the AfDB at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Zanzibar for the 17 May launch of the SEBEP project.
World Environment Day: Host Cote d’Ivoire, Africa Development Bank urge collective action to end plastic pollution
Cote d’Ivoire hosted the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day on the 5th of June 2023, with the African Development Bank as a core partner for the annual event.
Libya: Selected Issues
Country Report No. 2023/202