Tag: Africa Banking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will depend on the world coming together in a collective endeavour backed by science, finance and political resolve, African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina, told the Victoria Forum 2020, a virtual event addressing the long-term socio-economic impacts of COVID-19. “How we come out of this pandemic, and the speed of our collective recovery,… Read More

Le Projet de pôle agro-industriel dans la région du Bélier (2PAI-Bélier), lancé en 2017 dans la capitale politique ivoirienne, Yamoussoukro, avec l’objectif d’assurer la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle de plus de 460 000 personnes, est en bonne voie de réalisation. Le « 2PAI-Bélier », dont l’achèvement est prévu en 2022, enregistre une exécution satisfaisante, selon le rapport sur l’état d’exécution et sur les résultats… Read More

Under the theme “Development Banks as Actors for Change towards Gender Equality,” the African Development Bank’s Director for Gender, Women and Civil Society, Vanessa Moungar, joined high-level representatives from global financial institutions, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and UN Women in signing a joint declaration on gender equality to strengthen their commitment at all levels. The declaration was one highlight… Read More