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    • President Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania, global Clean Cooking ambassador at the Africa Energy Summit. January 2025
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Mission 300: African leaders pledge to advance clean cooking solutions for Africa at milestone Energy Summit

Tanzania leading continental efforts to promote clean cooking with President Suluhu Hassan as ambassador

African countries have taken bold commitments to implement clean cooking energy solutions to offset the devastating effects of open fire cooking which kills roughly 600,000 women and children annually across the continent. In energy compacts (apo-opa.co/40Fdx4z) signed during the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit, held in Tanzania 27-28 January, 12 African…

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Africa Energy Summit, leaders commit to energy transformation with more than $50billion backing from global partners

The Dar es Salaam Energy Declaration represents a key milestone in addressing the energy gap in Africa, where more than 600 million people currently live without electricity

Thirty African Heads of State and government today committed to concrete reforms and actions to expand access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity to power economic growth, improve quality of life, and drive job creation across the continent. The leaders pledged their commitment in a declaration during the two-day Mission 300…

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Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit: Continent to connect 300 million to electricity by 2030 in new ambitious and collaborative initiative

Mission 300 will incorporate robust accountability measures, including country-specific monitoring and evaluation systems and the Africa Energy Regulatory Index to track progress

African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org), and World Bank in unprecedented collaboration to transform Africa’s Energy Access  Strong emphasis on clean cooking solutions to avoid 600,000 deaths annually due to smoke exposure Connecting 300 million Africans to electricity within the next five years is within reach through collaborative effort and commitment to implementation, participants…

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Mission 300 Energy Summit to Gather Africa’s Leaders and Partners to Transform Energy Sector

Mission 300 is an unprecedented collaboration between the African Development Bank, the World Bank Group, and global partners to address Africa’s electricity access gap using new technology and innovative financing

African heads of state, business leaders, and development partners will converge tomorrow in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit where they will commit to ambitious reforms and actions to expand access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity to 300 million people in Africa by 2030.…

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    • Dr Akinwumi Adesina (left) and President Samia Suhulu Hassan of Tanzania discuss bold measures to feed Africa during the World Food Prize Norman E Borlaug Dialogue. Iowa, October 2024
    • Tanzania marks record agricultural achievement as African Development Bank President Adesina urges investment in Africa
    • Dr Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank Group
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Tanzania marks record agricultural achievement as African Development Bank President Adesina urges investment in Africa

Each youth is given 10 acres of land and is supported by training, already 11,000 have benefitted and this year’s harvest has begun

Tanzania achieves 128% food self-sufficiency, one of continent’s two successful cashew nut processors If you are not investing in Africa, what are you doing? – Akinwumi Adesina Tanzania is setting new benchmarks in food self-sufficiency across Africa, raising hope that the fight against hunger and malnutrition on the continent is…

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Ninth Africa Energy Market Place (AEMP) held in Dar es Salaam ahead of key Africa Heads of State Energy Summit scheduled for 28 January in Tanzania

The summit will convene heads of state and government, ministers, international and regional organisations, and other partners, including the private sector

Further to an April 2024 pledge by the Presidents of the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and the World Bank to bring electricity access to 300 million people in Africa by 2030, the Tanzanian port city of Dar es Salaam has been selected to host an Africa Heads of State Energy…

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    • AfDB Vice President Dr. Beth Dunford (r) at a and Mastercard Executive Vice President Tara Nathan at recent MADE Alliance Africa event
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    • AfDB Vice President Dr. Beth Dunford with smallholder farmers in Nigeria who are benefitting from Bank agricultural technologies
    • MADE Alliance Africa aims to connect millions of smallholder farmers and women in Africa with digital services
    • World Food Day: How the new Mobilizing Access to the Digital Economy (MADE) Alliance will use digital technologies to help farmers in Africa feed the continent
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World Food Day: How the new Mobilizing Access to the Digital Economy (MADE) Alliance will use digital technologies to help farmers in Africa feed the continent

The African Development Bank aims to bring 3 million farmers in Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria into the digital economy via Mastercard Community Pass

The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) and Mastercard are co-chairing a new initiative called Mobilizing Access to the Digital Economy (MADE) Alliance Africa, which aims to provide digital access to critical services for 100 million people and businesses in Africa over the next 10 years. In the first phase of…

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Tanzania: African Development Bank grants $129 million loan to agricultural project generating decent jobs for young people

Digital technologies, including satellite technology and artificial intelligence, will be utilized to improve agricultural productivity and decision-making processes for young farmer cooperatives

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) on 20 September 2024 approved a $129.71 million loan to Tanzania for the implementation of a youth-focused agribusiness program. The loan will fund the first phase of the “Building a Better Tomorrow: Youth Initiatives for Agribusiness” program, which aims…

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    • AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina (7th from left, front row), Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina, Africa50 CEO Alain Ebobissé, and other participants at the 2024 Annual General Shareholders Meeting in Antananarivo. Adesina's wife, Grace, stands to his right
    • Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina shows AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina a national craft at a Madagascar exhibition during the 2024 Annual Meetings in Antananarivo. Africa50 CEO Alain Ebobissé looks on
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Africa50 investment platform gets thumbs up for its innovative financing, strategic partnerships and performance

Africa50 has mobilized over $1.1 billion in capital commitments and catalyzed an additional $4.4 billion in external financing in just seven years of operation

Presidents of Madagascar and Tanzania praise Africa50's critical role in addressing the continent's infrastructure challenges; Africa50 has mobilized over $1.1 billion in capital commitments and catalyzed an additional $4.4 billion in external financing in just seven years, Adesina. Africa50 (www.Africa50.com), the investment platform established by African governments and the African Development…

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REISSUE: 2024 Annual Meetings: African Development Bank President Outlines Gains of Historic 2023 Dakar 2 Summit

Bank will invest $2.9 billion to support the Country Food and Agriculture Delivery Compacts; appoints Special Envoys to fast-track implementation

Since the Dakar 2 Summit (https://apo-opa.co/4bBfGm1), six African countries have set up Presidential-level Councils to drive implementation of the Country Food and Agriculture Delivery Compacts agreed at the summit, while another twelve countries are at various stages of establishing their councils. Presidential Councils have taken off in Tanzania, Democratic Republic of…