Bajabulile « Swazi » Tshabalala, Vice President of AfDB
The African Development Bank Group announces, on 1 August 2018, the appointment of Ms. Bajabulile "Swazi" Tshabalala as Vice President Finance / Chief Financial...
Egypt: credit agreement between Afreximbank and Orascom Investment Holding
Afreximbank, the pan-African bank for the promotion of African exports, signed on 17 January 2019 a credit agreement of 170 million USD with the...
IMF approves $ 2bn loan tranche to Egypt
It's done now. The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a loan tranche of $ 2 billion to Egypt, according...
Comoros: IFC to unlock US $ 15 million for Telco
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced it will grant a $ 15 million credit line to Telecom Comores (Telco SA), a Comoros-based telecom...
Côte d’Ivoire: Technological catching up, the path to successful economic emergence according to the...
In its sixth report on Ivory Coast published this February 8, the World Bank points the finger at the technological gap of the Ivorian...
Gabon: ADB 77 billion FCFA for drinking water supply in Libreville
The AfDB representative in Gabon, Robert Masumbuko, announced on February 12, 2019 that the institution has granted an envelope of 77 billion CFA francs...
The Islamic Development Bank is committed to blindness in 12 African countries
In anticipation of the launch of the 2nd generation (phase) of the Alliance for the Fight Against Avoidable Blindness (AFAB), the Islamic Development Bank...
African Union: ZLECA departs from excessive liberalization
The countries of the African Continental Free Trade Area (ZLECAF) are determined to establish an economic free trade area, while applying a dose of...
Nigerian Ahunna Eziakonwa at the helm of UNDP-Africa
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa of Nigeria as Assistant Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), responsible for...
Insurance: CRA wants to cover Ebola and Lassa fever
The Pan African Risk Management Mutual (ARC), an institution of the African Union, is developing an insurance product to facilitate the implementation of rapid...
Egypt receives last tranche of AfDB budget support loan
Egypt signed on Sunday 28 January a third and final loan in the amount of 500 million for the country's governance reform with the...
Gabon and FAO sign global assistance agreement for more than 1 billion CFA francs
Gabonese Minister of Agriculture Biendi Maganga Moussavou has signed a technical assistance agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)...
Vera Songwe defends the ZLECA at the UN
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Vera Songwe, concludes a series of fruitful meetings in New York on the sidelines of...
Djibouti Signs Memorandum of Understanding with African Risk Capacity
The Government of Djibouti and the Pan African Risk Management Mutual (African risk capacity, ARC) signed this Monday in Addis Ababa, a memorandum of...