The election took place on the final day of the 2020 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group August 27, 2020/AfDB Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina has been re-elected to serve a second fiveyear term as President of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) on Thursday, August 27, 2020 by […]

August 25, 2020/Mediacraft The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC), the body responsible for certifying the eradication of wild poliovirus in the WHO Africa Region (WHO-Afro), has granted the region ‘wild poliovirus free’ status. This follows after Nigeria, the last wild poliovirus endemic country in the region, recorded no new […]

August 10, 2020/IMF The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation [1] with the United States. The economic outlook has shifted dramatically with the rapid spread of COVID-19. 135,000 Americans have tragically lost their lives and many more have become seriously ill. The sudden-stop […]