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    • African Development Bank Group Appoints Moono Mupotola as Deputy Director General for Southern Africa
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African Development Bank Group Appoints Moono Mupotola as Deputy Director General for Southern Africa

Mupotola managed the African Development Fund’s Regional Operations Envelope and oversaw the Bank’s regional project preparation facility

The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has appointed Moono Mupotola, as Deputy Director General for the Southern Africa Regional Development, Integration and BusinessDelivery Office, effective 16th October 2024.  Mupotola, a Zambian national, brings over 25 years of development experience across Africa to her new role. Her expertise spans infrastructure development,…

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Multinational: African Development Bank Group approves $34.8 million in grants to build climate resilience in Malawi and Zimbabwe

Climate risk insurance is expected to lead to behavioural changes among beneficiaries, such as increased investment in climate-resilient livelihoods or savings for future insurance premiums

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved grants of $34,796,402.40 to enhance resilience and adaptation to climate disaster risks for vulnerable communities in Malawi and Zimbabwe.  Under the Bank Group’s Africa Disaster Risk Financing (ADRiFi) initiative, the Mitigating Fragility through the Africa Disaster Risk…

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Zimbabwe: African Development Bank’s $15 million Trade Finance Package for First Capital Bank to support Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) and local enterprises

The line of credit will provide the much-needed hard currency financing to support FCB to close its trade finance gap and expand its trade finance support for SMEs and local corporates in Zimbabwe, a transition country

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved a $15 million trade finance package for First Capital Bank (FCB) in Zimbabwe to help bolster intra-African commerce in line with the goals of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area. The package, comprising a $7.5 million trade…

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    • AfDB Country Manager for Zimbabwe Moono Mupotola and Gerald Gore, NMB Bank CEO at the signing of an agreement for a $15 m trade facility in Harare
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African Development Bank signs $15 million Transaction Guarantee Facility with NMB Bank Zimbabwe

The facility offers up to 100% coverage to confirming Banks, effectively mitigating non-payment risks linked to NMB Bank's trade transactions on a per-transaction basis

The African Development Bank (https://www.AfDB.org/) and NMB Bank Limited Zimbabwe (NMB) have signed a $15 million Trade Finance Transaction Guarantee Facility to unlock trade finance opportunities for Zimbabwean small and medium-sized enterprises and those in agri-business and trade distribution value chains. The signing took place on 7 March at NMB…

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    • The injection of resources into the Central Africa Building Society of Zimbabwe will finance trade
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Zimbabwe: African Development Bank approves $25 million trade finance line of credit for Central Africa Building Society

The facility, which would finance approximately $175 million of trade over a three-and-a-half-year period, marks the African Development Bank’s fourth private sector intervention in Zimbabwe

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org/en) has approved a $25 million trade finance line of credit facility to the Central Africa Building Society of Zimbabwe, to be used to boost local firms and small and medium-sized enterprises. This facility will enhance foreign currency liquidity support…

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Conference of the Parties (COP28): African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) grants $1.8 million to boost entrepreneurship skills for thousands of women in partnership with Export Trading Group

The project aims to impact up to 3,600 women and women-led or owned businesses by placing them in Export Trading Group’s global supply chain over four years

The African Development Bank Group’s (www.AfDB.org) Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) and Export Trading Group have signed a technical assistance agreement of $1.8 million to strengthen women’s skills in entrepreneurship in four countries. Leadership from both organizations took part in a signing ceremony held Tuesday December 5th…

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    • Support from the African Development Bank will enable NMB Bank to support SMEs and local businesses, including those owned by women
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African Development Bank approves USD 15 million Trade Finance Transaction Guarantee Facility for NMB Bank to support Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and local corporates in Zimbabwe

It will also increase access to finance and support intra-Africa trade between Zimbabwe, SADC, and the rest of Africa

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (http://www.AfDB.org) on Thursday, 30 November 2023 approved a USD 15 million Trade Finance Transaction Guarantee facility for NMB Bank in Zimbabwe. This is AfDB’s first project with NMB, a registered commercial bank with strong SME credentials. This facility will provide…

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    • The African Development Bank will contribute through the implementation of this project to improve access to electricity for people in Central and Northern Mozambique
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Mozambique: African Development Bank grants $33 million to improve the electrical grid near borders with Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe

The grant is from the Transition Support Facility, a financial instrument of the Bank specifically for states undergoing transition

Meeting in Abidjan on 5 December 2023, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org/en) approved a grant of $33.25 million to Mozambique to implement the Songo-Matambo electricity transport line project. The grant is from the Transition Support Facility, a financial instrument of the Bank specifically for…

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    • Former president of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano (left), Zimbabwe president Emmerson Mnangagwa, African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina
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Zimbabwe commits to implementing key reforms to resolve debt burden, end 21 years of sanctions

African Development Bank Group’s Adesina calls for urgency in implementing reforms

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reassured development partners and creditors that his government is committed to the implementation of key reforms critical to resolving the country’s nearly $8.3 billion of debts and arrears.  He was speaking during the high-level debt resolution forum held Monday in the capital Harare, that was also…

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Zimbabwe hosts fourth Structured Dialogue Platform on arrears clearance and debt resolution process

African Development Bank President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina and former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano expected in Harare for a High-Level Debt Resolution Forum scheduled for 15 May 2023

Zimbabwe has concluded a fourth Structured Dialogue Platform meeting on debt clearance with creditors and development partners. Government and development partners met Thursday 11 May, to review three draft policy reform matrices prepared by sector working groups on economic, governance and land tenure reforms. They also looked at compensation of…