Category: Investments

La Banque africaine de développement et le Cameroun signent un Accord de prêt de 80,4 millions d’euros au titre de la Phase III du Programme d’appui à la compétitivité et la croissance économique | African Development Bank – Building today, a better Africa tomorrow Read More

The debate around climate change often focuses on the targets that need to be achieved. Another aspect of the discussion is increasingly gaining attention; that is the funding required, for African countries in particular, where climate change has hit the hardest. The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) recently convened an event titled “Supporting African countries to unlock and absorb climate… Read More

The African Development Bank’s investments in West Africa are yielding remarkable results, the President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, said in Abuja on Saturday. He was speaking at the bloc’s fifty-sixth ordinary session, attended by regional heads of state and government. Brou said the Bank had provided “invaluable technical and financial interventions…in the… Read More

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has endorsed the candidacy of African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina for a second term at the helm of the institution. The decision was announced at the end of the fifty-sixth ordinary session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS, held on Saturday in Abuja, Nigeria. “In recognition… Read More

Gender-sensitive climate action can help reduce women’s vulnerability to climate change, according to experts. The topic arose during the Global Gender Summit in Kigali, hosted by the African Development Bank and the government of Rwanda. Panelists discussed gender and social risk management, livelihood diversification and institutional strengthening, at a session entitled “Gender responsive climate action: experience from the Climate Investment… Read More

« A l’approche de la frontière entre le Togo et le Bénin, je croise les doigts pour passer le moins de temps possible. Je prie surtout pour que soit vite achevé le corridor afin de rendre la circulation plus fluide ». Accoudé à l’avant de sa remorque de 20 tonnes, Issa Diaby reste de longues heures à observer, au loin, les travaux… Read More

Women commuters along the Nigeria-Cameroon border are breathing a sigh of relief. Before  the construction of a cross-border road in the southeast of Nigeria and northwestern Cameroon, women struggled to get seats on public transport; drivers favored male passengers because they could help push stuck vehicles out of the mud. The Enugu-Bamenda Highway has put a stop to this gender… Read More

The year 2019 was a year of exciting firsts for the African Development Bank Group. The year was marked by innovation and several new milestones that brought us closer to the “Africa we want.” The Bank pushed its High 5 strategy forward in tandem with the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. We saw continuing progress… Read More