Access to clean, piped water offers a paraplegic seamstress in Sierra Leone hope for a brighter future.

When Hawa Koroma moved to Kenema in Sierra Leone's Eastern Province twelve years ago, she was looking for a fresh start following the civil war, which claimed her husband's life. She could not have imagined how the move to this city 200km from the capital Freetown would change her life.

On its 50th anniversary, the African Development Fund draws accolades, gratitude, for its achievements in Africa

The African Development Fund (ADF) has celebrated 50 years of driving socioeconomic development in Africa’s most fragile countries.
Held during the African Development Bank Group’s Annual Meetings—23 to 27 May—the event brought together beneficiaries and donors to speak about the impact and performance of the Fund. It also featured live performance and video.  ,

African Development Bank financing for Kenya roadway boosts local economy and regional integration

Kenya is making rapid progress in the construction of its part of the Great Trans-African highway that runs from Cairo in Egypt to South Africa’s Cape Town.
The 84km Kenol-Sagana-Marua highway, which runs through central Kenya, is being upgraded from a single lane road to a dual carriageway. It is expected to be completed in six months, two years earlier than scheduled. The roadway connects Nairobi with major commercial and agriculturally important towns in central, upper eastern and northern Kenya.,

Driving time on the Kenol-Sagana-Marua road has been drastically reduced thanks to the new highway, says African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina while visiting the Kenol-Sagana-Marua highway works on 31 May 2022