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African Development Bank Launches Dialogue Mission in Algeria to Prepare 2025-2030 Country Strategy [announcement]
An African Development Bank team has launched a strategic dialogue mission in Algiers this Sunday with the Algerian authorities, in preparation for the Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for the 2025-2030 ...
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End of an era of aid, turn focus to trade
In a world where talking shops are the in-thing among most leaders, especially on the political front, to me, African Development Bank (AfDB) president Akinwumi A. Adesina, PhD, stands out as one ...
AllAfrica on MSN2d
African Development Bank to Present Inaugural Civil Society Community of Practice Report On Inclusive Budgets and Global Financial System
The African Development Bank Group, through its Civil Society and Community Engagement Division, will unveil the report from its inaugural Community of Practice (CSECoP) on Tuesday, 15 April 2025, at ...
AllAfrica on MSN2d
'The Era of Aid or Free Money Is Gone. Africa Must Overhaul Its Approach Toward Achieving Fast-Paced Development.' [announcement]
In the face of dwindling global funding, tariffs, and geopolitical tensions, African Development Bank Group President Akinwumi Adesina said on Friday that Africa must wean itself from aid dependency ...
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Nigeria's Cross River State Second to Commence Construction of Its Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone [announcement]
Nigeria's Cross River State became the second to mark construction of a Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone after the country's Vice President Kashim Shettima and African Development Bank ...
The Punch on MSN2d
Afreximbank boosts intra-Africa trade with Abuja AATC
The African Export-Import Bank has officially opened its first Afreximbank African Trade Centre in Abuja, Nigeria, providing a boost for trade and investment in Africa.The new trade centre was opened ...
Independent Newspaper Nigeria on MSN3d
Why Africa Should Not Engage US In Tariff Face-Off – Adesina
President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has implored African nations to prioritise strategic trade and investment partnerships as against engaging in a tariff war with ...
New Telegraph3d
AfDB To Elect Next President At 2025 Annual Meetings
Group will elect a new President to succeed Dr. Akinwumi Adesina at its 2025 Annual Meetings next month, the bank’s Secretary General and Chief Economist, Prof Vincent Nmehielle, has announced. He ...
Sunday Trust on MSN4d
Pascal Dozie, a pivotal leader in Nigerian banking, telecommunications
Founder of the defunct Diamond Bank Plc and a former chairman of MTN Nigeria, Pascal Gabriel Dozie, had been described by his son Uzoma Dozie as a man whose life was marked by service to God, family ...
Emirates News Agency on MSN5d
African Development Bank Group Annual Meetings 2025 to focus on harnessing Africa’s capital for continent’s development
The African Development Bank Group’s 2025 Annual Meetings next month will take a deep dive into how Africa can better harness its wealth of capital and address current issues such as heavy debt ...
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African Development Bank - Accolades for Transforming the Continent Confirmed By International Recognition
Similarly, the African Development Fund, the Bank Group's concessional finance window, has been ranked second by the Center for Global Development, based in Washington DC, ahead of 49 concessional ...
AllAfrica on MSN6d
Nigeria's Food and Agriculture Revolution Takes Off Backed By the African Development Bank
Nigeria began on Tuesday the journey to significantly transform its food and agriculture sector by launching the construction of the $510 million Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) ...