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Afrique centrale : la CEMAC organise une table ronde à Paris pour lever 3,4 milliards d’euros en faveur de projets d’intégration régionale

Elwin Mandowa,
La Communauté économique et monétaire de l’Afrique centrale (CEMAC) a ouvert, lundi 16 novembre à Paris, une table‑ronde destinée à lever 3,4 milliards d’euros pour le financement des projets intégrateurs d’infrastructures de transport et d’énergie dans ses six pays membres. La table‑ronde, organisée en format hybride (présentiel et virtuel) jusqu’au 17 novembre, vise à lever des fonds auprès de partenaires… Read More
Africa Investments 

COVID-19 is a ‘wake-up command’ to address Africa’s challenges – Tony Blair

Elwin Mandowa,
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the challenges and opportunities of Africa’s development landscape, former British prime minister Tony Blair said on Monday in a lecture organized by the African Development Institute in Abidjan. “We have the same problems but what we also have is vastly increased urgency…not so much a wake-up call but a wake-up command,” Blair said. The former… Read More
Development Health Advice 

WHO rolls out plan to rid world of cervical cancer, saving millions of lives

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“Eliminating any cancer would have once seemed an impossible dream, but we now have the cost-effective, evidence-based tools to make that dream a reality”, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. The strategy, backed by WHO Member States at the World Health Assembly last week, involves vaccinating 90 per cent of girls by the age of 15, screening 70 per cent of… Read More
Development Health Advice 

No time for complacency as COVID-19 cases surge: WHO chief

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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the UN agency is “extremely concerned” by the surge in cases in some countries, particularly in Europe and the Americas, which is pushing health workers and health systems to breaking point.  “This is a dangerous virus, which can attack every system in the body. Those countries that are letting the virus run unchecked are… Read More
Africa Investments 

Sénégal : la restauration de l’écosystème du lac de Guiers, financée par la Banque africaine de développement, profite aux riverains

Elwin Mandowa,
Après cinq ans de travaux, le Projet de restauration des fonctions écologiques et économiques du lac de Guiers, dans le nord du Sénégal, est arrivé à expiration en 2019. Il a rétabli des conditions optimales de fonctionnement du lac, tout en permettant l’aménagement de la réserve spéciale d’avifaune du Ndiaël, selon les conclusions d’un rapport de la Banque africaine de… Read More
Africa Investments 

Africa Delivers: Accelerating Development Outcomes

Elwin Mandowa,
What: 2nd Africa Delivery Exchange (ADX) workshop Who: Kenya President’s Delivery Unit, African Development Bank and Tony Blair Institute for Global Change When: 24 November 2020 at 09.15 am GMT / 25 November 2020 at  08.05 am GMT Where: Virtual  (Closed event) The Kenya President’s Delivery Unit, in collaboration with the African Development Bank and Tony Blair Institute for Global Change,… Read More
Africa Investments 

Africa Youth Month: Catching up with Agripreneur winners at the African Development Bank AgriPitch competition

Elwin Mandowa,
The African Development Bank’s virtual African Youth Agripreneur Forum and AgriPitch Competition (AYAF/AgriPitch 2020) – currently underway – coincides with the African Union’s Africa Youth Month. Both celebrate the positive impact that youth-led innovation is having on Africa’s development. AYAF/AgriPitch 2020 kicked off on 3 November with the first of three weekly webinars, and will run through 17 November when… Read More
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Dangote is the most valuable brand in Nigeria for 2020

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– – For the third consecutive year, Dangote Group has emerged the Most Valuable Brand in Nigeria, the outcome of the 2020 edition of the Annual Brand Evaluation, “TOP 50 BRANDS NIGERIA” has revealed. A brief summary of the 2020 report reveals that Dangote Group topped the list of the Most Valuable Brand 2020, followed by MTN which also doubled… Read More
Africa Investments 

Moody’s Investor Service affirms African Development Bank’s AAA credit rating

Elwin Mandowa,
Moody’s Investor Service has affirmed the African Development Bank’s AAA credit rating, with a stable outlook. “The credit profile of African Development Bank (AfDB) is supported by the bank’s robust capital buffers and superior risk management, which mitigate risks,” Moody’s Investor Service said in an annual credit analysis dated 27 October 2020.  Moody’s added: “An ample liquidity buffer and unfettered… Read More
Africa Investments 

“Finance in Common Summit”: Experts call for greater international cooperation to address the situations of fragile countries worsened by the health…

Elwin Mandowa,
International experts on Thursday called for a concerted response and broader cooperation between public development banks and actors in the field to provide concrete responses to fragile countries whose situations have been worsened by the global Covid-19 crisis. They spoke during a virtual session on “Human Security in Fragile Contexts: Scaling up Humanitarian and Resilience Investments,” on the second day… Read More
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