The Corporate Council on Africa has bestowed its prestigious 2025 Distinguished Economic Leader Award upon African Development Bank President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, in recognition of his decade-long ...

The African Development Bank has approved a grant of $500,000 to undertake a feasibility study into the first phase of a cable car transport network in Kigali, that will be sub-Saharan Africa’s first ...

African leaders have called on Monday for an urgent review of U.S. tariffs on African exports, urging a shift towards ...

Kenya and Senegal have claimed the top spots in the African Development Bank’s 2024 Electricity Regulatory Index (ERI), ...

What? Launch of the 2025 Country Focus Reports series. Institutional launch and presentation of the Côte d’Ivoire report. Who? The African Development Bank When? Abidjan: 23 June 2025, at 9:15 a.m.

The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), managed by the African Development Bank, has committed to contribute $8 million toward a $26.5 million financing package to support the 32 MWp Ilute ...

Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema and African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina on Monday jointly inaugurated a new drinking water pumping station, marking the end of a decade ...

The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, on 14 June, has honored the President of the African Development Bank Group Dr Akinwumi Adesina describing him as “a visionary leader, a tireless son ...

The African Development Bank Group has unveiled the first edition of its Public Service Delivery Index (PSDI) – a report that measures the quality and effectiveness of key public services provided by ...

The 2025 African Economic Outlook (AEO) report has been prepared against a backdrop of unprecedented global circumstances. April 2025 witnessed ...

The African Development Bank has appointed Mike Salawou as Director of the Infrastructure and Urban Development Department, effective 16th May 2023. Salawou, a Danish national, has been the Acting ...

At least 600 million people in Africa have no access to electricity, many of them in rural areas. “We would work in the dark, running the risk of cutting ourselves with sharp instruments and injuring ...