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Time Is Running Out to Close Continent’s Massive Infrastructure and Climate-Finance Gap – 2025 Africa Investment Forum Panel Warns

The high-level panel, titled "Innovative Finance Instruments Powering Africa’s Sustainable Transformation,” served as a clear call to action for adopting new approaches beyond conventional funding models

Senior policymakers, investors, and development finance leaders converged at the 2025 Africa Investment Forum Market Days on Thursday to tackle one of the continent's most pressing challenges: unlocking the capital required to meet surging infrastructure and climate demands. The high-level panel, titled "Innovative Finance Instruments Powering Africa’s Sustainable Transformation,” served…

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    • The African Development Fund is providing significant support to Benin to increase the private sector's contribution to the country's economy
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Benin: the African Development Fund grants an additional $28 million in financing to boost the private sector’s contribution to the country's economy

The objective of this financial support is to increase the contribution made by Benin's private sector to the economy

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund approved additional financing of $28 million for Benin to continue the Economic Governance and Private Sector Development Support Programme (PAGE-DSP) on 24 November 2025. Following phases I and II, which were successfully implemented in 2023 and 2024, respectively, the objective of…

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    • The African Development Fund, through its Climate Action Window, is supporting the second phase of the Programme to Strengthen Resilience to Food and Nutritional Insecurity in the Sahel
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African Development Fund commits $14 million grant to scaling up climate resilience across the Sahel

The Climate Action Window grant will cover 30 municipalities and support the creation of 60 climate-smart villages across Sahelian countries, helping to strengthen community resilience to climate shocks

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has approved a grant of $14.64 million to support Project 2 of the Programme to Strengthen Resilience to Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Sahel (P2-P2RS) in Abidjan on 21 November 2025. The additional financing is provided through the Climate Action…

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    • The AfDB has received $14m to help agriculture SMEs in Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia gain better access to credit, insurance, and investment capital
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African Development Bank Group receives $14 million in first funding allocation under Global Agriculture and Food Security Program’s new private sector financing window

More than 1.5 million smallholder farmers and 500 agro-dealers and cooperatives are expected to benefit

The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) has announced the first allocation from its new private sector financing window to the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org), providing $14 million in de-risking capital that aims to unlock $200 million from the private sector to enhance food security in low-income countries.…

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    • Dignitaries at the launch of the joint report “Investing in Innovative Food Systems Solutions in Challenging Contexts” in Abuja, including representatives from AfDB, WFP, IFPRI, Olam, and the Governors of Kano and Katsina States
    • L–R: Dr. Abdul Kamara, Director General for Nigeria, African Development Bank; Senator Abubakar Kyari, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security; His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi II, Emir of Kano; Mr. David Stevenson, Country Director and Representative, WFP Nigeria; Dr. Steven Were Omamo, Executive Director, IFPRI; and Mr. Ade Adefeko, Vice President, Olam, during a high-level panel session at the launch of the joint AfDB–WFP–IFPRI report “Investing in Innovative Food Systems Solutions in Challenging Contexts.”
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Rebuilding the breadbasket: African Development Bank, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) launch report on innovative investment in food systems in Northern Nigeria

“Investing in Innovative Food Systems Solutions in Challenging Contexts,” provides a roadmap for revitalizing northern Nigeria’s food systems

The African Development Bank (https://AfDB.org), in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), has released a new study urging coordinated and innovative investments to strengthen food security and unlock the agricultural potential of northern Nigeria. Launched on the margins of…

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    • A production line at the Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia, an ADF-supported initiative
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In Zambia, African Development Fund reshapes the country’s agriculture and education landscape

Zambian ministers credit African Development Fund for fertilizer self- sufficiency boost, increased capacity for 250,000 new skilled workers

Concessional financing from the African Development Fund (ADF) has been transformative for Zambia's agriculture and education sectors, while “anchoring peace, prosperity, and regional competitiveness.” ADF deputies, who are gathered in Zambia's capital for a meeting on the Fund's 17th replenishment, visited two project sites on Tuesday, 7 October - the…

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    • Panelists (left to right): Moderator Simon Winter, Abdilhakim Yusuf Ali Ainte, Director of the Food Security and Climate Department in the Office of the Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, Roland Fomundam, President and CEO of Greenhouse Ventures, Felista Nyakio, Kenyan agripreneur, Rania Dagash-Kamara, Deputy Executive Director for Partnerships and Resource Mobilization of the World Food Programme, Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Martin Fregene, Director of the Agriculture and Agribusiness Department of the African Development Bank Group
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Forum for Resilience in Africa 2025: farmers must become providers of food aid, not recipients, say experts

The forum provides an opportunity to explore strategies for intensifying prevention efforts and stimulating peace-promoting investments on the continent

Agricultural experts attending the 6th edition of the Africa Resilience Forum (https://apo-opa.co/4h4wohb), held in Abidjan from 1–3 October, have urged African governments to place greater value on farmers — transforming them from recipients of food aid into providers. "Agriculture is a dominant activity in crisis zones. And we are told…

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African Development Bank Group Approves $22.8 Million Grant to Boost Mozambique's Rice Production and Build Climate Resilience

The project is designed to quadruple rice yields, from a ton per hectare to four tons per hectare, and raise annual household incomes from about $590 to $1,000

The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved a $22.8 million grant from its concessional African Development Fund to strengthen Mozambique's rice value chain and enhance climate resilience, targeting 30,000 smallholder farmers across four provinces. The grant will fund the Rice Value Chain and Climate Resilience Project, which seeks to…

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    • African Development Bank Group Board Approves New Strategy to Drive Economic Diversification and Private Sector-led Inclusive Growth in Lesotho
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African Development Bank Group Board Approves New Strategy to Drive Economic Diversification and Private Sector-led Inclusive Growth in Lesotho

The new strategy aims to address these vulnerabilities by unlocking private sector growth, creating sustainable employment, and building stronger institutions

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved a new $209 million Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for Lesotho, setting out a roadmap to accelerate the country’s transition toward economic diversification, resilience, and inclusive growth over the next five years. The approval comes at a crucial…

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    • Ms. Fanta Njifondjou Oumarou, fish farmer in Limbé, happy to have received clarias broodstock
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Cameroon: Fish farming makes a difference in the fight to improve living standards

This transformation has been driven by a strain of the African catfish (clarias), which has the advantages of rapid growth, low fat content, and low mortality

Along the coast and in south-western regions of Cameroon, fish ponds have become not only centres of production but also hubs of opportunity and economic transformation. A new dynamic is bringing hope to fish farmers, including young people and women, thanks to the Livestock and Fish Farming Value Chain Development…