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• African Development Bank Group Annual Meetings 2025 to focus on harnessing Africa’s capital for continent’s development (1)
• African Development Bank Group Annual Meetings 2025 to focus on harnessing Africa’s capital for continent’s development (2)
• African Development Bank Group Annual Meetings 2025 to focus on harnessing Africa’s capital for continent’s development (4)
• African Development Bank Group Annual Meetings 2025 to focus on harnessing Africa’s capital for continent’s development (5)
• African Development Bank Group Annual Meetings 2025 to focus on harnessing Africa’s capital for continent’s development (5)

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• African Development Bank’s Tanzania Country Manager, Patricia Laverley (right), and BOAT’s Deputy Managing Director, Hamza Cherkaoui, display signed copies of the $7.5 million trade finance transaction guarantee agreement

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• Mano River Union delegation with women traders on the Busia border (in pink)
• A Liberian woman trader (in jacket) engages the One-Stop-Border point management on the Kenya side
• A delegation of the study tour, comprising women traders and border officials from Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as representatives from the African Development Bank at the One-Sto- Border-Post in Busia
• Bank and BIBEST project staff engaging a Kenyan female mechanic, who is also a cross border trader in Busia

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• African Development Bank and Standard Bank Unite to Support Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) and Boost Trade (1)
• African Development Bank and Standard Bank Unite to Support Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) and Boost Trade (2)

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• Mrs. Nnenna Nwabufo – Vice President - Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery – African Development Bank Group, offering the welcome remarks
• Participants at the Session (1)
• Dr. Joy Kategekwa - Director, Regional Integration Coordination Office at the African Development Bank Group (2nd from right) with Participants including His Excellency the Minister of Trade and Regional Integration of Ethiopia, Dr Kasahun Gofe (Middle)
• A group photo of Speakers during the High-Level Strategic Dialogue on Accelerating Visa-free Movement for Africa’s transformation and integration. They incude Mrs. Nnenna Nwabufo - Vice President, Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery at the African Development Bank Group (4th from left) and H.E. Mr. Albert Muchanga - Commissioner for Economic Development, Trade, Tourism, Industry and Minerals at the African Union Commission (5th from left)
• H.E. Mr. Albert Muchanga - Commissioner for Economic Development, Trade, Tourism, Industry and Minerals at the African Union Commission, delivering the Keynote Address
• Dr. Joy Kategekwa - Director, Regional Integration Coordination Office - African Development Bank Group and Dr. Sabelo Mbokazi – Head, Employment, Labour and Migration Division – African Union Commission during the joint announcement of the 2025 Visa-Free Roadshow
• Ometere Omoluabi-Davies – Principal Regional Integration Coordinator – Regional Integration Coordination Office at the African Development Bank Group, presenting the 9th edition of the Africa Visa Openness Index Report
• Honorable Prudence Sebahizi, Minister of Trade and Industry, Rwanda
• African Union Youth Envoy - Chido Mpemba on a call to action
• Participants at the session (2)
• Participants at the session (3)
• Africa’s Business Sector sharing reflections on the theme (2nd from left Dr Amany Asfour - President, African Business Council, 2nd from right Ms. Allen Asiimwe - Deputy Chief Executive Officer, TradeMark Africa, First from right Mr. Mulualem Syoum – Chief Executive Officer, AeTradeGroup)
• Policymakers in a roundtable discussion on model practices to accelerate Visa-Free movement in Africa (From left - right H.E. Gilberto Da Piedade VERISSIMO - Chairperson - Economic Community of Central African States, ECCAS, H.E. Ms. Veronica Nduva – Secretary General, East African Community, EAC, H.E. Mr. Elias Magosi – Executive Secretary – Southern African Development Community, SADC, H.E. Dr Kasahun Gofe, Minister of Trade and Regional Integration of Ethiopia, Brian Tamuka Kagoro - Pan-Africanist and Managing Director Programs, Open Society Foundations)
• Participants at the session (4)

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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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• The road corridor project supported by the African Development Fund will contribute to the economic and social integration of southern Madagascar by opening up the region

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• Ahmed Attout (left), Director for Financial Sector Development of the African Development Bank and Wegoki Mugeni, Chief operating officer, East Africa, TDB Group, signed the agreement for the $150 million Trade Finance Unfunded Risk Participation Agreement (RPA) facility