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Africa Resilience Forum 2025: Development leaders call for high-quality border infrastructure to facilitate free movement of goods and people

In January 2021, the African Union launched the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to increase intra-African trade and stimulate inclusive and sustainable development in industry, infrastructure, and agriculture

The political will to build quality infrastructure at borders, including the construction of a single digitised checkpoint between two neighbouring countries, should facilitate the free movement of people and goods and help streamline cross-border trade in Africa, participants in the sixth edition of the Africa Resilience Forum (http://apo-opa.co/4mPrYfq), heard on…

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    • l-r AfDB Vice President for Private Sector, Infrastructure & Industrialization, Solomon Quaynor and Mr. Shoji Yamada, Representative Director and President, JGC Corporation sign agreement in Yokohama. August 2025
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African Development Bank and JGC Corporation sign agreement to advance use of sustainable aviation fuel and Africa’s green aviation agenda

The production and adoption of SAF in Africa is consistent with the Bank’s sustainable transport and mobility and energy transition strategy

 The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and JGC Corporation, a leading Japanese engineering company, have signed an agreement to explore cooperation in the development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)in Africa. The two parties signed a Letter of Intent to this effect on the sidelines of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on…

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    • Ali Lamine Mahamane Zeine, Prime Minister of Niger, and Sidi Ould Tah, President of the African Development Bank Group (right), present the documents corresponding to the $144.7 million financing agreement aimed at developing Niger’s energy sector and improving the competitiveness of its private sector
    • Sidi Ould Tah, President of the African Development Bank Group (right), and Ali Lamine Mahamane Zeine, Prime Minister of Niger, sign a $144.7 million financing agreement at the institution's headquarters in Abidjan to improve energy access and private sector competitiveness in Niger
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African Development Bank Group and Niger sign $144.7 million agreement to boost energy access, economic competitiveness and resilience

A key component of the project focuses on developing renewable energy capacity, with plans for 240 MW of solar power by 2030, including 50 MW by December 2026

African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) President Sidi Ould Tah and Niger’s Prime Minister, Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, have signed a $144.7 million financing agreement to improve energy access and private sector competitiveness. The agreement, signed at the institution’s headquarters in Abidjan, provides budgetary support from the African Development Fund, the…

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    • Seminar on business opportunities at the African Development Bank in Brazzaville on 24 September, with more than 100 Congolese companies participating
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Republic of Congo – Local businesses are better informed about procurement procedures and ready to seize business opportunities with the African Development Bank

Following the seminar, more than 100 companies across various sectors were added to the Bank's supplier database, an important step before the opening of the service procurement contracts for the Annual Meetings

Employees of over 100 Congolese companies received training in the African Development Bank’s rules (www.AfDB.org) and procedures during an information and awareness seminar held in Brazzaville on 24 September 2025. The event forms part of the preparations for the Bank Group's Annual Meetings scheduled to take place in Brazzaville in…

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    • AfDB President Sidi Ould Tah urges the private sector to play a central role in the structural transformation of African economies
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Africa must seize global trade disruption as 'historic opportunity,' leaders tell private sector

African leaders see the moment as critical for the continent to strengthen intra-African commerce and reduce dependence on external markets

Ivorian Prime Minister Robert Mambé and African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) President Sidi Ould Tah have urged Africa’s private sector to take centre stage in the continent’s economic transformation, stressing that the current global trade disruptions present an opportunity rather than a threat. The two leaders were speaking on Monday…

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African Development Bank Group and Michael Bloomberg to Drive Private Investment into Africa

Together we will consolidate our strengths for mobilizing private sector resources and unleashing investments at scale for Africa’s development – Dr Sidi Ould Tah

The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) and Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies and Chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), have formed a new partnership to mobilize private sector investment across the African continent into areas that will boost jobs and development.…

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At United Nations’ 80th General Assembly (UNGA80), African Development Bank (AfDB) President Sidi Ould Tah Presses for Scaled-Up Financing and Stronger Partnerships to Realize Africa’s Development Goals

Dr Ould Tah praised Africa's resilience and commitment in the face of current challenges and stressed the need for development partners to work together to build a new African financial system, drawing on each other's strengths

African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) President Sidi Ould Tah is attending the United Nations’ 80th General Assembly this week to push the continent’s development priorities and mobilise support for the replenishment of its concessional lending arm the African Development Fund. High on Dr Ould Tah’s packed agenda are financing, resource…

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    • (Front row, from left to right) Yves Mafongo, Deputy Coordinator of the Project and Programme Monitoring Unit at the Ministry of Finance; Alain Malata, Chief of Staff at Finance Ministry; Ann Sow Dao, AfDB Divisional Manager for Programme Management; Mohamed Coulibaly, AfDB Acting Country Manager for the DRC, alongside other workshop participants
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African Development Bank boosts project management in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

The workshop brought together representatives of ministries, the Court of Auditors, and project implementation teams

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) (www.AfDB.org) has concluded a four-day workshop in Kinshasa to strengthen project management and improve the performance of Bank-financed operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Organised from 8 to 11 September 2025 by the African Development Institute and the Bank's fiduciary departments, in…

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    • African Development Bank Group President Sidi Ould Tah pays courtesy visit to President Alassane Ouattara (1)
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African Development Bank Group President Sidi Ould Tah pays courtesy visit to President Alassane Ouattara

The courtesy visit serves to consolidate the cordial partnership between the Bank and Côte d'Ivoire, which is a founding member country and host nation of the institution

The president of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org), Sidi Ould Tah, paid a courtesy visit on Wednesday to the President of Côte d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara. Ould Tah expressed his gratitude to the Ivorian leader for the support he received during his election in May becoming the ninth president of…

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    • Vincent Nmehielle, AfDB Secretary General (left), and Ludovic Ngatsé, Minister of Economy, Planning, Statistics and Regional Integration (right), sign memorandum of understanding for the African Development Bank Group 2026 Annual Meetings, in the presence of Anatole Collinet Makosso, Prime Minister of Congo (center) on Friday, 19 September
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African Development Bank, Republic of Congo sign Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for hosting of 2026 Annual Meetings

The 2026 Meetings will be the first to be held under the chairmanship of Mr. Sidi Ould Tah, who was elected as head of the Bank Group on 29 May 2025

The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) and the Republic of Congo have signed a memorandum of understanding on the hosting and organization of the Bank’s 2026 Annual Meetings, scheduled to take place in May next year. Anatole Collinet Makosso, Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo, attended the signing ceremony…