Le Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement et le gouvernement de Madagascar ont signé, mercredi à Antananarivo, des accords de financement pour un montant total de 16,9 millions de dollars américains. Ce financement est destiné à la mise en œuvre de la première phase du Programme de pôle intégré de croissance agricole et agro-industriel au Sud de Madagascar.

Who:        Government of Egypt, African Development Bank, development partners
What:       Third Edition of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development
Where:     Hybrid format, Cairo, Egypt
When:      21-22 June 2022
 
The theme of this year’s Aswan Forum is “Africa in an Era of Cascading Risks and Climate Vulnerability: Pathways for a Peaceful, Resilient, and Sustainable Continent.”

The African Development Bank has signed an agreement to invest in the Joint Reinsurance Company of Member States of Conférence Interafricaine des Marchés d'Assurances  (CICA-Re).
Under the agreement, the African Development Bank will take a 6.56-billion FCFA stake (approximately €10 million) in CICA-Re and join its board of directors.

The Covid-19 pandemic led to a global economic recession, but what has been its impact on African economies?
What makes this crisis unique is not so much its magnitude – Africa has experienced other major crises – but the confluence of multiple crises contained within it.
The Covid-19 pandemic, with its countless victims, has sapped many countries of their vital forces. Some 127 million children in southern and eastern Africa have had their school attendance suspended, with detrimental consequences for their futures.

President of the African Development Bank Group, (AFDB) Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina will deliver the prestigious William G. Demas Memorial Lecture at the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) Annual Meeting on Tuesday June 14, 2022, in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands., Live Streaming
The 2022 William G. Demas Memorial Lecture
Date
14 Jun 2022
Time
11:30 GMT
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La Banque africaine de développement a organisé en partenariat avec le secrétariat exécutif du G5 Sahel, les 30 et 31 mai 2022, à Nouakchott, un atelier de consultation sur les résultats préliminaires de l’étude sur le profil genre dans la région du Sahel.

It’s 13:00 at the primary school in Konioudou, a village in the rural commune of Kombissiri, about 40 km outside the capital Ouagadougou, and it’s time for the pupils’ midday break. In the shade of the courtyard’s large trees, some are playing, teasing each other, laughing; a few others are leafing through books. But all are waiting for one thing: lunchtime.

The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) will extend a $2 million partial trade credit guarantee to ETG Inputs Ghana Limited to support delivery of fertilizer to 200,000 smallholder farmers in Ghana’s Upper East, Savannah, Northeast, and Northern Regions. The move will ease the current shortages in supply and boost yields, food security, and incomes of farmers in the designated regions.

Ghana has enjoyed two decades of steady growth, but the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine-Russia crisis could dent economic prospects, according to an African Development Bank report launched on Thursday.
The 52-page report, titled ‘Transforming Ghana,’ reviews the country’s development over the past ten years (2012–2021) and evaluates the African Development Bank’s contribution through its High 5 strategic priorities.