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• Italy reaffirms its support for the African Development Bank under the Mattei Plan. Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, Senior Vice President of the Bank Group (2nd from left), received an Italian delegation on May 8, 2025, at the institution's headquarters in Abidjan
• Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, Senior Vice President of the Bank Group

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• Family photo after the opening ceremony of the 2025 edition of the African Development Bank's Civil Society Organizations Forum
• Manager of the Civil Society and Community Engagement Division, Zeneb Touré, symbolically hands over the Civil Society Engagement Action Plan 2024-2028 to Beth Dunford, Vice-President of the African Development Bank Group for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, representing Mr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the institution
• family photo after the presentation of the Civil Society Engagement Action Plan 2024-2028 to civil society organizations
• Testimonies from representatives of civil society organizations on a Bank-funded project covering the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Civil society representatives exchanged with senior management of the Bank Group From left to right: Uche Duru, representing the Director of the Environmental and Social Safeguards and Compliance Department; Dominique Puthod, representing the Director of Strategies and Operational Policies; Nathalie Beatrice Chinje-n Bodiong, Principal Advisor to the Secretary General of the Bank Group; Mariam Diawara, Acting Director of the Independent Review Mechanism; Martha T.M. Phiri, Director of the Human Capital, Youth and Skills Development Department and Acting Director of the Gender, Women and Civil Society Department; Anthony Nyong, Director of the Climate Change and Green Growth Department; Martin Fregene, Director of the Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department

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• Group Photo of Senior officials from the Islamic Development Bank and the African Development Bank who participated in the technical meeting. They include Yero Baldeh, Director of the Transition States Coordination Office at the AfDB (sixth from left) and Ahmed Berthe, leader of the IsDB delegation (8th from left)

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• Botswana: AfDB’s support to Lobatse Clay Works

• Workers sort newly produced bricks at Lobatse Clay Works. The company has experienced a remarkable revival, partly thanks to strategic investment from the African Development Bank
• A forklift operator at Lobatse Clay Works loads bricks into trucks for distribution into the local market and export
• AfDB’s Deputy Director General for Southern Africa, Moono Mupotola inspects freshly manufactured bricks at the revitalized Lobatse Clay Works facility during her recent site visit to the project
• Sample bricks on display at the revitalized Lobatse Clay Works facility
• The revitalized Lobatse Clay Works facility resumes full operations with ambitious plans to reclaim and surpass its previous market dominance

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• Cabo Verde's Digital Transformation in full expansion with African Development Bank Support (1)
• Cabo Verde's Digital Transformation in full expansion with African Development Bank Support (2)
• Cabo Verde's Digital Transformation in full expansion with African Development Bank Support (3)

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• Botswana: AfDB’s support to Lobatse Clay Works
• Botswana: AfDB’s support to Delta Automotive Technologies Botswana (Pty) Ltd

• Delta Automotive's skilled workforce crafts precision wiring harnesses that power Volkswagen and Nissan vehicles, showcasing Botswana's growing footprint in global automotive manufacturing
• Delta Automotive makes wiring harnesses primarily for Volkswagen and Nissan vehicles
• A skilled technician at Delta Automotive Technologies carefully positions a freshly manufactured wire roll onto the storage rack, preparing it for the next critical phase in the wiring harness production process
• A Delta Automotive Technologies representative demonstrates a complete wire harness set and explains its functionality
• Delta Automotive technician perfects critical wire Harness destined for South African auto assembly lines
• One of the female workers at Delta Automotive Technologies knitting wires together
• Some female workers at Delta Automotive Technologies carefully knitting wires together
• A worker at the Delta Automotive plant carefully knits wires together

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• African Development Bank President Dr Akinwumi Adesina and Inter-American Development Bank President Ilan Goldfajn sign $3.2 billion Exposure Exchange
• African Development Bank signs $3.2 billion Exposure Exchange with Inter-American Development Bank