Who:       UN Conference to Combat Desertification and the government of Côte d’Ivoire
What:      Joint press conference
Where:    Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
When:     20 May 2022; 13:00-13:45 (UTC/GMT)
 

Quoi ?     Présentation des principaux résultats de la 15ème session de la Conférence des Parties (COP15)
Qui ?       Le gouvernement de Côte d’Ivoire et la Convention des Nations unies sur la lutte contre la désertification
Quand ?  Vendredi 20 mai 2022 ; 13 h‑13 h 45 (UTC/GMT)

Amid a looming food crisis, Ethiopia has emerged as an African country that has taken significant steps to achieve self-sufficiency in food production.
With support from the African Development Bank’s agricultural Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation program, Ethiopia has not imported grain in 2022, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina emphasized during a meeting with G7 development ministers meeting on Thursday.

The African Development Bank is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Malado Kaba as Director of the Gender, Women and Civil Society Department of the African Development Bank, effective 16th June 2022.

The Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM) on Thursday launched a new automated trading system, positioning itself as an attractive multi-currency listing platform capable of offering sophisticated products and services to domestic and international investors. The launch took place at a ceremony in Port Louis, the country’s capital.

Learn more about the African Emergency Food Production Facility.
The African Development Bank Group's Board of Directors on Friday approved a $1.5 billion facility to help African countries avert a looming food crisis.

In 2017, 32-year-old Hamsa Hamidou of Simiri in southwest Niger’s Tillabéry region, was given a cow. Three years later, he sold it and used the money to buy a sheep and ewe. “I fattened them and then sold them. I continued this way and three years later, I had four ewes, three sheep, and a cow,” he says.
Supported by the Programme for Strengthening Resilience to Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Sahel (P2RS), Hamidou’s small-scale enterprise has allowed him to be financially independent and to meet his family’s needs.

In the early 2010s, Godelive Ngalula, a trader from Kikwit, the main town of Kwilu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, spent a week to travel the 350 kilometres (km) to Tshikapa in Kasaï Province and 50,000 Congolese francs (about $24.5) on food. A decade later, the situation has changed. “The trip takes only about a day thanks to the better road. Travel costs have dropped from $80 to $20 and I spend only 2,000 Congolese francs, or $1, on food,” she says happily.