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16 May 23
Zimbabwe is under fresh pressure to overhaul its governance structures.
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16 Mar 23
The Nigerian government has launched a $670m fund to help young tech entrepreneurs who face difficulty accessing finance – a longstanding barrier to the country’s digital sector.
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7 Dec 21
Managing debt levels and drawing in new finance will be key to funding Africa’s recovery from Covid-19, according to experts.
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19 Jul 21
The African Development Bank is in a strong position, even though Covid-19 saw a shift in the organisation's priorities, according to ratings agency Fitch.
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24 Jun 21
Africa will need $485bn of additional financing between 2021 and 2023 to ward off a debt crisis, the president of the continent’s largest multilateral development bank has said.
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15 Mar 21
Africa needs large-scale debt relief in order to meet the challenges of Covid-19 as millions of people face being pushed into extreme poverty, the African Development Bank has warned.
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23 Jul 20
South Africa has been granted its first ever crisis loan from the African Development Bank as it struggles against one of the world’s most serious outbreaks of Covid-19.
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14 Apr 20
A new $10bn fund has been announced by the African Development Bank to help the continent’s governments respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
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31 Jan 20
“Urgent” action is needed to develop people’s skills in Africa, where low human capital risks future economic growth, the African Development Bank has said.
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9 Sep 19
The African Development Bank’s Anne Valko Celestino and Elisa Desbordes-Cissé ask if the world is ready to be gender equal in leadership.
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19 Aug 19
Great strides have been made in developing energy, infrastructure and trade routes in Southern Africa, the African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina has said.
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23 Jul 19
A significant boost to irrigation aims to help Senegal increase agricultural production, employment and incomes in rural areas.
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23 Jul 19
The Asian Development Bank has put itself at the forefront of continuing efforts to boost gender equality in Mongolia.
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14 Jun 19
A fund has been created to ensure that at least 320 million more Africans – nearly 60% of them women – have access to digital financial services.
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24 May 19
A grant of nearly $1 million has been made to encourage private investment in renewable energy projects in Ethiopia.
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7 May 19
Public finance officials will be key beneficiaries of an $11.1m loan to support Zambia’s efforts to restore fiscal stability.
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15 Apr 19
Funding from the African Development Bank is supporting a relief project for South Sudan, where more than a million people are reported to be in emergency situations.
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21 Mar 19
The African Development Bank has promised to put at least $25bn towards climate financing between 2020 and 2025, doubling its commitments to ‘green’ projects.
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22 Nov 18
The African Development Bank has approved a $123m grant to Ethiopia to help people access basic services.
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27 Sep 18
Countries are not “winning the war” against hunger and need to work together to invest in agriculture, the head of the African Development Bank has said.
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24 Aug 18
The African Development Bank has signed a $218m loan to boost economic governance in Namibia.
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27 Jul 18
The African Development Bank has signed an agreement with Sudan that will grant the country $41m to modernise its agricultural system.
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13 Jun 18
Climate financing by the world’s biggest multilateral development banks has hit a seven-year high of $35.2bn in 2017.
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20 Apr 18
The African Development Bank has launched an integrated strategy for economic progress in the continent’s Portuguese-speaking countries.
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17 Apr 18
The African Development Bank is to lend $20m to a private healthcare company in Nigeria to help improve hospital and other specialist health facilities in Lagos State.
16 May 23Zimbabwe is under fresh pressure to overhaul its governance structures.
16 Mar 23The Nigerian government has launched a $670m fund to help young tech entrepreneurs who face difficulty accessing finance – a longstanding barrier to the country’s digital sector.
7 Dec 21Managing debt levels and drawing in new finance will be key to funding Africa’s recovery from Covid-19, according to experts.
19 Jul 21The African Development Bank is in a strong position, even though Covid-19 saw a shift in the organisation's priorities, according to ratings agency Fitch.
15 Mar 21Africa needs large-scale debt relief in order to meet the challenges of Covid-19 as millions of people face being pushed into extreme poverty, the African Development Bank has warned.
23 Jul 20South Africa has been granted its first ever crisis loan from the African Development Bank as it struggles against one of the world’s most serious outbreaks of Covid-19.
31 Jan 20“Urgent” action is needed to develop people’s skills in Africa, where low human capital risks future economic growth, the African Development Bank has said.
9 Sep 19The African Development Bank’s Anne Valko Celestino and Elisa Desbordes-Cissé ask if the world is ready to be gender equal in leadership.
19 Aug 19Great strides have been made in developing energy, infrastructure and trade routes in Southern Africa, the African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina has said.
23 Jul 19A significant boost to irrigation aims to help Senegal increase agricultural production, employment and incomes in rural areas.
23 Jul 19The Asian Development Bank has put itself at the forefront of continuing efforts to boost gender equality in Mongolia.
14 Jun 19A fund has been created to ensure that at least 320 million more Africans – nearly 60% of them women – have access to digital financial services.
24 May 19A grant of nearly $1 million has been made to encourage private investment in renewable energy projects in Ethiopia.
7 May 19Public finance officials will be key beneficiaries of an $11.1m loan to support Zambia’s efforts to restore fiscal stability.
15 Apr 19Funding from the African Development Bank is supporting a relief project for South Sudan, where more than a million people are reported to be in emergency situations.
21 Mar 19The African Development Bank has promised to put at least $25bn towards climate financing between 2020 and 2025, doubling its commitments to ‘green’ projects.
27 Sep 18Countries are not “winning the war” against hunger and need to work together to invest in agriculture, the head of the African Development Bank has said.
24 Aug 18The African Development Bank has signed a $218m loan to boost economic governance in Namibia.
27 Jul 18The African Development Bank has signed an agreement with Sudan that will grant the country $41m to modernise its agricultural system.
13 Jun 18Climate financing by the world’s biggest multilateral development banks has hit a seven-year high of $35.2bn in 2017.
20 Apr 18The African Development Bank has launched an integrated strategy for economic progress in the continent’s Portuguese-speaking countries.
17 Apr 18The African Development Bank is to lend $20m to a private healthcare company in Nigeria to help improve hospital and other specialist health facilities in Lagos State.
