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• African Development Bank’s acting Chief Economist, Kevin Urama (second left) and other panelists at a seminar on the African Economic Outlook 2022, hosted by the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC. 27 July 2022.

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• U.S. National Bar Association Honors Akinwumi Adesina with Distinguished Ronald Harmon Brown Award of International Distinction

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• (L-R) Dana Banks, Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director for Africa, National Security Council, Chinelo Anohu, Senior Director, Africa Investment Forum (AIF), Enoh, Ebong, Director, United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)

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• Invest in Africa, African Development Bank Chief Urges Investors at U.S.- Africa Business Summit

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• The African Development Bank is working towards establishing an Africa Emergency Food Production Plan which would result in the rapid production of 38 million tons of food across Africa over the next two years – Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank Group
• “276 million people are marching toward starvation” – David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme
• “A perfect storm is leading to heightened global food insecurity, worse, much worse than the previous food crises over the past decade,” warned Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, Chief Executive Officer, Mercy Corps
• “We should be concerned and even alarmed about the widening food security crisis that this war is causing for hundreds of millions far beyond Eastern Europe,” said Senator Coons, Chair of the Senate subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs.
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State Work Plan
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State Work Plan (FR)

• “A 1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production plan to avoid a looming food crisis,” tells President Adesina to U.S. Senate
• “Africa must prepare for the inevitable global food crisis,” warns President Adesina during U.S. Senate hearing session

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• Duke Commencement Ceremony 2022

• Duke University President Vincent E. Price (left) confers Humane Letters Doctorate on African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina (center)
• Duke University President Vincent E. Price (left) shares a moment with African Development Bank Group President Akinwumi Adesina and Mrs Adesina
• Duke University President Vincent E. Price (right) shares a moment with African Development Bank Group President Akinwumi Adesina after the ceremony

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• “I will be your strong advocate for G7 countries to do more for the African Development Fund and to put in more resources for Africa” – Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (1)
• “I will be your strong advocate for G7 countries to do more for the African Development Fund and to put in more resources for Africa” – Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2)