Tag: Africa Banking

Bright sunshine has replaced the rosy light of dawn. But Abel Gaber has no time to admire the view of Cairo on this spring morning. Now in his fifties, the agronomic engineer is too busy supervising his employees on his 130-hectare farm. His is an unusual – and experimental – farm in the Egyptian landscape, in the governorate of Al… Read More

Le timbre du muezzin fait écho dans tout le village, encore endormi, de Douar Bouazza, à 20 kilomètres au sud-ouest de Marrakech. Ahmed Hassani, lui, roule déjà sur sa mobylette à travers ses luxuriants champs d’olives et d’orges. Agriculteur d’une quarantaine d’années, il se réjouit de l’arrivée de l’électricité dans le village. Comme tout le monde, ici. Le courant lui… Read More

We are in a battle against time to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. While tackling the Coronavirus pandemic has grabbed global attention, a new crisis that could claim a lot more lives is brewing in Africa: massive locust invasions. Billions of desert locusts are ravaging countries all across East Africa, including Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, and Djibouti. It… Read More

The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic must be coordinated and targeted at livelihoods to prevent an upsurge in inequality, delegates at an African Development Institute (ADI) webinar urged on Wednesday. “This is an opportunity to re-think macro-economic policy in Africa. We should not go back to our old ways. The sense of urgency that is coming from the crisis… Read More

For Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV), 2019 was a year of helping the African Development Bank Group and its Regional Member Countries (RMCs) to transform experience into knowledge and learning through independent evaluations.  IDEV has supported both the Bank and its RMCs to achieve their development goals through the lens of the Bank’s High 5 priorities, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable… Read More

African Development Bank Chief Financial Economist Edson Mpyisi discusses the locust crisis in the East and Horn of Africa regions and the Bank’s work to help affected African nations | African Development Bank – Building today, a better Africa tomorrow Read More

The African Development Institute (ADI), jointly with anchor economic policy think-tanks and universities in Africa, including the African Economic Research Consortium, will host a virtual seminar on macro-economic policy response for Africa in the wake of COVID-19. The seminar titled “Enhancing Resilience in African Economies: Macro-Economic Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa,” will take place on Wednesday, 29 April 2020.… Read More

The African Development Bank and SA Taxi Development Finance Proprietary Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of SA Taxi Holdings Proprietary Limited (“SA Taxi”), have signed a $100 million loan agreement to support the firm’s growing strategy to empower taxi operators with limited access to finance from traditional financiers. The loan agreement, which carries an eight-year tenor and includes a six-month… Read More