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New African Development Bank (AfDB) review highlights Inland Fisheries as Lifeline for millions of Africans

Protecting critical habitats, particularly in degraded areas such as Lake Victoria’s marshes and Senegal’s heavily polluted Falémé River, is identified as a priority

The African Development Bank (AfDB) (www.AfDB.org) has released a "Review of African Inland Fisheries," calling for urgent investment in restoring aquatic habitats and integrating fisheries into broader water resource management to safeguard livelihoods for millions of Africans. The report highlights the sector’s critical role beyond nutrition, stressing its contribution to…

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    • African Development Bank Group Board Approves New Strategy to Drive Economic Diversification and Private Sector-led Inclusive Growth in Lesotho
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African Development Bank Group Board Approves New Strategy to Drive Economic Diversification and Private Sector-led Inclusive Growth in Lesotho

The new strategy aims to address these vulnerabilities by unlocking private sector growth, creating sustainable employment, and building stronger institutions

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved a new $209 million Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for Lesotho, setting out a roadmap to accelerate the country’s transition toward economic diversification, resilience, and inclusive growth over the next five years. The approval comes at a crucial…

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Democratic Republic of Congo: water and health centres changing lives in Kasaï

Change began more than 10 years ago, when the Project for the Reinforcement of Socioeconomic Infrastructure (PRISE) launched a major transformation

Drinking clean water, receiving treatment in a modern health centre or seeing your children study in bright classrooms is no longer a dream in Kasaï province, in the centre of the DRC. Today, it’s real life. In the past, life in Kasaï was subject to painful compromises: "We used to…

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    • Aerial view of houses submerged in Maiduguri during floods. Sept 2024 [Audu Marte/AFP]
    • Front Row (L–R): Jean-François Yao, Senior Policy Advisor, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); Babarinde Segun Mukaila, Director of Water Supply and Support Services, Federal Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation; Dr. Abdul Kamara, Director General, African Development Bank Nigeria Country Department; Mallam Bukar Tijani, Secretary to the State Government of Borno; and Doris El Doueihy, Head of Delegation, ICRC Nigeria
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Nigeria: African Development Bank and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) partner to support inclusive, resilient water services in Maiduguri

Between 2006 and 2021, Maiduguri’s population more than doubled and is projected to exceed 2.5 million by 2030, placing immense pressure on water infrastructure

The Government of Borno State, in collaboration with the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), have convened a partnership roundtable to accelerate access to safe, sustainable, and inclusive water services in Maiduguri. The event held on Tuesday 10 September, coincided with the first…

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    • From left to right: Émile Gros Raymond Nakombo, president of the Special Delegation of the City of Bangui; Mamady Souaré, head of the African Development Bank Group’s Country Office in the Central African Republic; Arthur Bertrand Piri, Minister of Energy and Water Resource Development; Guène Ousseynou, Head of the Water Security and Sanitation Division for the North, West and Central regions for the Bank Group; and Eric Sorongopé, governor of the Bas-Oubangui region
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The Central African Republic and the African Development Bank Group launch an ambitious programme to develop water resources in the Ubangui River basin

The programme covers the provinces of Nord-Ubangi, Sud-Ubangi and Mongala in the DRC, as well as Greater Bangui in the Central African Republic

The government of the Central African Republic and the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) launched the Regional Support Programme for the Development of Cross-Border Water Infrastructure and Resources between the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo (PREDIRE) (http://apo-opa.co/41DG9w2) in Bangui on Tuesday 5 August 2025. Bertrand Arthur…

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    • Durfo village community leader (far left) discusses project benefits with Zoba Maekel community engineer (centre) and Hailemikael Berhe (right), DRSLP project accountant during a field visit to a masonry dam in Durfo village, Zoba Maekel, central Eritrea
    • An aerial view of the Guritata dam, in Zoba Maekal, central Eritrea
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Transforming dust: How Eritrea’s dams are revitalizing the land

A network of masonry dams is slowly transforming Eritrea’s rural landscape, bringing clean water, food security, and new hope to remote farming communities once battered by drought

In villages across Eritrea’s dry interior, change is quietly flowing. Where seasonal rivers once surged and vanished without trace, hand-built dams now hold back precious water. Irrigation canals feed crops even in dry months. Eritrea, one of the Horn of Africa’s most drought-prone countries, has adopted a straightforward approach to…

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    • Clementina Artur, the woman in charge of Caboqueiro community water point (Sumbe-Angola), shows how access to clean water is transforming daily life
    • Isabel Sambovana, in front of her bathroom. She is one of the beneficiaries of the installation of latrines in the Sumbe community
    • A Massive Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) constructed in Sumbe (Angola) as part of the Institutional and Sustainability Support to Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project. Before the AFDB funding, no wastewater treatment existed in Sumbe, a city of 350,000 inhabitants
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The Power of Water: How the Angola Institutional and Sustainability Support to Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project is Transforming Lives

The project, set to conclude in December of 2025 after a decade of implementation, has delivered remarkable results: the seven utility companies supported by the project have made a total of more than 59,008 household water connections

“Before this support, we had a lot of difficulties accessing water. We used to fetch it from the river. It was very distant for us, and we suffered from many diseases. But now, since we’ve had water available to everyone, cholera has decreased significantly, infections have decreased a lot, too,…

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African Development Bank Approves $62 Million Emergency Grant to Restore Critical Services in Conflict-Affected Sudan

The two-year project (2025-2027) will focus on four Sudanese states-- Aj Jazira, River Nile, Sennar, and White Nile

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved a $62.13 million emergency grant to support the Sudan Integrated Social Sector Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project (SISSIRP). This vital support aims to restore essential health, education, and water services that have been severely disrupted by the ongoing civil…

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    • The current treatment plant has a maximum daily production capacity of 1.5 million litres against a daily demand of 10 million litres. The plant will be upgraded to a daily production capacity of 19 million litres to cater for the population of 2045
    • Rumphi District Commissioner Emmanuel Bulukutu emphasizes that the project is key to spurring development in the district
    • Over 100 Community members especially women have benefitted from short term jobs through raising and planting of the tree seedlings
    • As part of its monitoring exercise, the African Development Bank mission was in Rumphi recently to check the status of the project’s implementation. The mission and other stakeholders also visited the site where the NRWB and communities are raising tree seedlings
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African Development Bank Project Enhances Water Access in Malawi Town

The project will span almost the width and breadth of Rumphi - extending to some parts of Northern Mzimba

In the green hills of Rumphi, northern Malawi, the hum of progress can be heard at the newly established Rumphi Technical College. With its modern buildings, new equipment, and a sense of optimism, the college has quickly become a symbol of opportunity. In just four years, enrollment has grown from…

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    • Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema (right) and Dr. Akinwumi Adesina unveil the inauguration plaque of the PK5 pumping station in Libreville, which will serve 128,000 people
    • President Adesina shares a heartfelt moment with children of the National School for Hearing-Impaired Children in Nzeng-Ayong, Libreville, which has been connected to clean drinking water since 2 June
    • President Akinwumi Adesina has been awarded the title of Grand Officer of the Gabonese Order of Merit by President Brice Oligui Nguema, Head of State and Grand Master of Gabonese Orders
    • Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema (right) cuts the ribbon of PK5 pumping station in Libreville, in presence of African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina
    • A project official presents the state-of-the-art equipment of the Libreville drinking water pumping station to Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema and African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina
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Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema and African Development Bank's (AfDB) Akinwumi Adesina Inaugurate Water Pumping Station for Greater Libreville

The initiative ensures that more than 300,000 people—approximately 31% of Libreville’s 967,095 residents—now have sustainable and permanent access to clean water

“Ten years without clean water: erased! Ten years without hope: forgotten! Ten years of suffering: over!”—Adesina to residents of Libreville’s outlying neighborhoods. Adesina Receives Gabon’s Highest Civilian Honor Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema and African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina (www.AfDB.org) on Monday jointly inaugurated a new drinking…