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World Youth Skills Day: For Jenny Ambukiyenyi Onya, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming African women livestock farmers’ herds into a source of finance

The company she founded, Neotex.ai, has rolled out its services in new rural areas in Kenya, registering more than 1,250 head of livestock and proving the viability of its model

A dirt road in Kenya. Heavy heat shimmers over the surrounding savannah. A loan officer approaches a herd of cattle and pulls out a smartphone. Standing next to the owner, a woman with a proud yet cautious gaze, he photographs an animal. Hundreds of miles away, an artificial intelligence algorithm…

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African Development Bank Partners with AXIAN Telecom to Accelerate Africa's Digital Transformation

Over $10 million will be dedicated to empowering 22,000 women entrepreneurs in Madagascar through AXIAN’s Mvola platform

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has approved a $160 million senior corporate loan to support AXIAN Telecom to expand digital access and financial inclusion in nine African countries. The loan will accelerate the modernization and expansion of AXIAN Telecom‘s network infrastructure, with a focus on 4G and 5G deployment; while…

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    • The African Development Bank will provide the tools that are needed to digitize the Comorian economy
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Comoros: African Development Bank grants over 9 million euros for digitizing the Comorian economy

The Bank’s financing consists of 4.02 million euros provided by the African Development Fund, the Bank’s concessional loan agency, and a further 5.49 million euros provided by the Bank’s Transition Support Facility

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved financing of 9.51 million euros to the Comoros for implementation of the Project to Support the Digitization of the Comorian Economy. With a total cost of 22.53 million euros, the Bank’s financing consists of 4.02 million…

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Central African Republic: New digital era dawns with debut of high-speed internet cable

Funded by the African Development Bank and the European Union to the tune of €33 million, the new cable, is now rapidly ushering the Central African Republic (CAR) into a new and unprecedented digital age

Junior is a young student at a technical college in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, getting set to resume studies at the University of Bangui. From childhood, he has restlessly pursued interesting and ambitious ideas. A recent one: building a humanoid robot called “Mama Africa", to raise awareness…

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    • Watch the video announcement and promo clip representing the Bank’s winning communications at the Salute to Excellence Awards
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African Development Bank Group women and gender communications campaign wins National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award

The Bank clinched the National Association of Black Journalists’ online public relations and marketing award category honor for the month-long Bank “Gender in Focus” digital campaign embracing International Women’s Day in March 2023

America’s largest organization of journalists and media-related professionals of colour has named the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) a “Salute to Excellence Award” winner for Bank communications observing International Women’s Day and its “Gender in Focus” series. The Bank clinched the National Association of Black Journalists’ online public relations and…

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    • Senior leaders from the African Development Bank and the Japan International Cooperation Agency met in Tokyo to align on key priorities
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African Development Bank and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Align Priorities Ahead of 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9) Summit

JICA expressed interest in cooperation opportunities, particularly in Nigeria and Ethiopia

The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have underscored the critical need for blended and innovative finance mechanisms to back Africa’s efforts to tackle climate change. In a meeting held in Tokyo on 20 June 2024, both sides agreed that providing more productive concessional…

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    • African Development Bank interventions help to push Africa's digital boundaries further. Photo: Bank Group President Dr Akinwunmi Adesina meeting with U.S Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire Jessica Davis Ba
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United States (U.S.) and African Development Bank Collaborate to Accelerate Africa’s Digital Transformation

The initiative builds on the African Development Bank's $2 billion investment in digital infrastructure, which includes regional and national broadband development

The U.S. Commercial Service and the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) have announced a new strategic collaboration in a move to drive digital transformation across Africa. Unveiled on the sidelines of the Africa Tech Festival held in Cape Town, South Africa, this collaboration paves the way for a series of dialogues on…

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    • Senegal: African Development Bank provides an additional €5.01 million for the Diamniadio Digital Technology Park
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Senegal: African Development Bank provides an additional €5.01 million for the Diamniadio Digital Technology Park

With this new loan, the Bank is assuming 87% of the €73.62 million total project cost, with the Senegalese government contributing the equivalent of € 9.64 million

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) on 8 December 2022 approved additional financing of €5.01 million for the future Digital Technology Park in Diamniadio, Senegal.  The African Development Bank Group thus confirms its support for the project, initiated in 2016 thanks to an initial loan…

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    • Ms. Esther Dassanou, Coordinator of the African Development Bank’s AFAWA initiative, (second from left), Mr. Felix Anoblé, Cote d’Ivoire’s Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises, Handcrafts and Informal Sector (centre), and Mrs. Antonia Ngabala Sodonon, UN Women Representative in Cote d’Ivoire (second from right) at the Abidjan launch of the Blaatto platform
    • Minister Felix Anoblé (left) and UN Women’s Antonia Ngabala Sodonon signed an agreement for the management of the Blaatto platform during the launch ceremony
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Cote d’Ivoire: African Development Bank-supported Digital Platform will Support Women Farmers to Gain Access to Markets

The platform is part of a UN Women project in Cote d’Ivoire to strengthen women’s agricultural resilience to climate change

Women farmers in Cote d’Ivoire will more easily find markets for their crops, thanks to a digital platform recently launched by UN Women.  Blaatto (https://bit.ly/3k4dJFi), part of the UN agency’s Buy From Women initiative, is targeting women smallholder farmers and members of women-led agricultural cooperatives in the country’s central region…

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Mozambique joins collaborative ICT data collection initiative developed by African Development Bank

RASME is a partnership of the African Development Bank and the World Bank’s Geo-Enabling initiative for Monitoring and Supervision and KoBoToolbox teams

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has extended membership of a digital data supervision system known as the Remote Appraisal Supervision, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RASME) project to Mozambique, making it the sixth African country to benefit from the tool which enhances project-related data collection in remote areas. RASME is a partnership…