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• The Mayi Nunene health centre was built as part of the project to strengthen socioeconomic infrastructure in central DRC
• View of the RN1 section at Batshamba

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• A teacher at the Sekete Primary School using one of the taps installed through the AfDB-Funded Lesotho Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project’s water and sanitation initiative
• The Lesotho Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project is connected to the Metolong Dam Water Supply Programme, a collaborative initiative between the government and partners
• A massive water reservoir constructed as part of the Lesotho Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project
• Community nurse Mots'elisi Makhele stands by the tap that previously served around 2,000 people and indicates the houses now connected to modern facilities constructed through the Lesotho Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project
• A stream that Kesete Village residents relied on for water before modern facilities were constructed through the AfDB-Funded Lesotho Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project
• Deteriorated sanitation facilities at Hamaja Primary School prior to the intervention
• New sanitation facilities at Hamaja Primary School built under the Lesotho Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project. The project delivered more than 266 sanitation facilities for vulnerable households and installed 284 toilets in schools and healthcare facilities

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• The Bank has a strong track record of investments to strengthen health systems, such as supporting Morocco’s medical facilities dedicated to pandemic responses

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• African Union Summit: African Development Bank President Highlights a Decade of Economic Transformational Impact
• African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, who is also the Chairman of the Group’s Boards of Directors, underscored the impact of the Bank’s operations, which have impacted more than half a billion lives over the past decade
• African Heads of State and Government display copies of the Dar es Salaam Energy Declaration at the closing session of the Africa Energy Summit, 28 January 2025
• The African Development Bank accelerated food production in Africa. Over 101 million people became food secure. We mobilized $72 billion to implement the food and agriculture delivery compacts across the continent,” said Dr. Adesina
• The Africa Investment Forum, a joint effort with eight other partner institutions, has mobilized over $200 billion in infrastructure investment commitments. (Picture: Africa Investment Forum Founding Partners and other officials during the Opening Session of the Africa Investment Forum 2024 Market Days, Rabat, 4 December 2024.)
• UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated calls for reform of the international financial architecture
• Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley emphasized Africa’s strategic role in shaping global economic trends, as the continent controls 40% of the world’s minerals
• Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed urged continued unity in addressing Africa’s challenges

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• Visiting the IPD in January 2024, the President of the African Development Bank Group, Akinwumi Adesina ((1st right), announced its support for this important biomedical research centre in Africa

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• (from center left) AfdB VP President Kariuki with Tanzania's Vice President Philip Mpango, Fatih Birol, IEA Executive Director, and Damilola Ogunbiyi, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, and other participants at a COP29 Clean Cooking side event

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• On-site production of oxygen is saving the lives of newborn babies at Gitego general hospital
• Franck Arnaud Ndorukwigira, doctor and deputy director of Gitega regional hospital, leads a tour of the wards

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• Lesotho’s King Letsie III (fourth from right) joins African Development Bank and philanthropic leaders to call for school feeding programmes to be prioritized and expanded
• (L-R) CIFF founder Christopher Hohn and African Development Bank’s Dr Adesina sign Letter of Intent to establish the End School-Age Hunger Fund
• The session, which took place on the margins of the ongoing 79th Assembly of the United Nations in New York, was moderated by Dr. Victor Oladokun, (far left), Senior Advisor to the Bank President on Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
• (L-R) Aliko Dangote, Christopher Hohn and Dr. Akinwumi Adesina are championing new models to accelerate progress towards the UN’S Sustainable Development Goals

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• Participants at the regional consultation on the multisectoral policy framework and nutrition investment target for the West African region, in Dakar, Senegal, 20 August 2024

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• Benson Bumbe Nkhoma (2nd right), Principal Water Resources Management and Development Officer, African Development Bank, making a presentation. On the extreme right is Peter de Koming, Resident Project Manager, Kenya, World Waternet. The others are: Fred Nyongesa, Manager, Water Quality, Water Resources Authority (extreme left); Enock Sentru Kiminta, Chief Executive Officer, Kenya National Water Resource Users Association (2nd from left); and Robert Kisyula, Chief of Party, USAID STAWI (3rd from left)