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Africa Investments 

African Development Bank donates vehicles to strengthen disaster preparedness in Zimbabwe

Elwin Mandowa,
The African Development Bank handed over a consignment of vehicles, tools and equipment to Zimbabwe officials this week. The vehicles will strengthen the country’s capacity in disaster preparedness and management. Speaking at the handover ceremony, Bank representative, ZimFund Manager Emmanuel Nzabanita, reiterated the Bank’s commitment to promoting resilience and recovery in Zimbabwe, in support of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.… Read More
Africa Investments 

At Paris Fashion Week, Ghanaian entrepreneur Roberta Annan launches €100 m Impact Fund to invest in Africa’s creative industries

Elwin Mandowa,
Ghanaian businesswoman and entrepreneur Roberta Annan earlier this week launched a €100 million fund to channel investment into small and medium African creative and fashion enterprises. The Impact Fund for African Creatives (IFFAC),will award grants of up to €50,000 to selected projects to accelerate development of the continent’s creative sector. The fund was launched at a ceremony held on Monday… Read More
Africa Ghana World 

WHO gives approval for mass use of malaria vaccine in Africa

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The world health organization has given approval for the use of malaria vaccine across Africa after successful pilot. The vaccine – called RTS,S – was piloted in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi as part of an immunization exercise. Now the World Health Organization says the vaccination was successful and should now be rolled out across sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions… Read More
Africa World 

Accountability Music Awards opens nominations for 2021

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– – Nominations have officially opened for the 2021 Accountability Music Awards (AMAs). The 2021 AMAs are a collaboration between Accountability Lab, the ONE Campaign and the African Union to honour African musicians whose music calls out the vice of corruption or advocates for good governance through the fight against corruption. By providing a platform for conscious musicians, the AMAs… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Hakeem Baba-Ahmed: Northern Elders And Their Mouth From Mauritania, By Bolaji O Akinyemi

Elwin Mandowa,
Of course it is a common knowledge that every 2 out of 10 persons in the North are first generation immigrants, who might have come, from Mali, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Libya, Senegal, Guinea, Mauritania, Chad or Niger poultry sellers like the fathers of our President, Buhari and his Fulani cousin Hakeem Baba-Ahmed. 5 out of 10 persons on the streets… Read More
Africa Investments 

Appointment of the General Counsel and Director of the Legal Service Department, Dr. Souley Amadou

Elwin Mandowa,
The African Development Bank is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Souley Amadou as General Counsel and Director of the Legal Service Department, effective 1st November 2021. A transactional lawyer, Dr. Souley Amadou has over 25 years of substantive legal work experience, including over 20 years spent at the African Development Bank Group. He also assumed the role of… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Democracy Gone Wrong, By Evans Ufeli Esq

Elwin Mandowa,
As soon as a politician have learnt to buy political support from the ‘public purse’, and conditioned electorates to embrace looting and bribery, the democratic process reduces itself to the formation of (Mancur Olson’s) ‘distributional coalitions’ – electoral majorities mortared together by common interest in a collectively advantageous pattern of theft. The Nigerian democratic space is fast becoming a system… Read More
Africa Investments 

Let us change the narrative on Africa in the United States” African Development Bank President tells African diplomats in Washington

Elwin Mandowa,
African Development Bank President Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina has said that a concerted effort to change the narrative on Africa in the United States is necessary to attract increased investments into the continent. He said the need for advocacy in the United States made having an African Development Bank office in Washington a matter of importance, and that he would… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Nigeria: Here’s The Only Way The Cattle Anti-Grazing Law Can Actually Be Enforced, By Ndidi Uwechue

Elwin Mandowa,
Outsiders would wonder why there is so much noise in Nigeria regarding cattle grazing. They may say: “Come on, stop monkeying around, this is the 21st Century AD and cattle should be reared on farms or ranches!” What they do not understand is that in Nigeria, cattle roaming about and grazing everywhere represents Fulani power.  To put it in context,… Read More
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