Tag: Africa Banking

Kofi Acheampong stationne à l’entrée du terminal 3 (T3) de l’aéroport international d’Accra. Comme son père avant lui, le quadragénaire est chauffeur de taxi. Faire la navette entre l’aéroport et le centre-ville de la capitale ghanéenne le rend heureux. « Le T3 est un bon investissement, surtout pour nous, chauffeurs de taxi, constate Kofi. Le nouveau terminal a réduit la… Read More

For years, Christiana Akwabea admired the vast fields she visited in neighboring districts to buy maize for reselling and dreamed of one day owning a plot of land where she could grow the staple crop. But there wasn’t much land for commercial farming in Seikwa in Ghana’s Bono Region, and the local soil is more suitable for cultivating cashew and… Read More

The Women in Ethics and Compliance in Africa network, (WECA), a new initiative creating a membership group for women executives and management leading the fight against corruption and non-compliance in business, made its debut at an online webinar co-hosted by the Bank on October 22. Its organisers, leaders from the African Development Bank, the Coalition for Ethical Operations (CEO) and… Read More

WHAT: Stakeholders Roundtable on Continental Power Systems Masterplan WHO: The African Union Commission (AUC), AUDA-NEPAD and the African Development Bank WHEN: Wednesday, 28 October 2020; 9.00 am – 4.00 pm GMT WHERE: Virtual (Closed session) The African Union Commission (AUC), the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and the African Development Bank will jointly host a virtual stakeholder roundtable on the… Read More

Armindo José Lourenço, 27 ans, est étudiant en droit à la Faculté des Sciences et de la Technologie de l’Université de São Tomé-et-Principe. « J’ai toujours été déterminé à devenir avocat. C’est pour cela que je suis aujourd’hui à l’université », explique-t-il. « Tous les élèves veulent aller à l’université et obtenir un diplôme. Je ne suis pas différent des autres. C’est une… Read More

Through funding from the African Development Fund’s (ADF) Regional Public Goods window, a training and research capacity building programme has awarded 90 Master’s and five PhD scholarships to strengthen capacity for inclusive and green growth policy formulation in Africa. The Research Capacity and Knowledge Enhancement for Africa’s Transformation Project implemented by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), received a grant… Read More

Multilateral development finance institutions on Wednesday pledged to continue to collaborate in their efforts to mitigate the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerate the recovery of economies and livelihoods. At an extraordinary virtual meeting to discuss the impact of their responses to the pandemic and the worsening debt situation, the organizations said that sustaining their joint efforts would… Read More

There are just hours to go until the 23 October deadline to enter the African Development Bank’s AgriPitch Competition. Selected entries by African youth agripreneurs will be invited to showcase their agribusiness startup plans and compete for a share of $120,000 in funding seed prizes, a slot of the competition’s business development boot camp, an audience of online panel of… Read More

The continent’s largest development finance institutions have emphasized that a sustained and collaborative approach among development partners to scale up project development activities, will boost the number of bankable projects attracting investor interest and contribute to closing the infrastructure finance gap in Africa. They spoke during a panel event to discuss their organizations’ role in post-COVID-19 environment, convened on October… Read More

For several years now, typhoid fever and diarrhoea cases have fallen significantly in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, especially in the major district of Kawempe, according to an African Development Bank report published on 7 October. Kawempe is an administrative subdivision that has developed rapidly, but water and sanitation infrastructure has not kept pace in this area dominated by swampy lowlands.… Read More