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Goodbye, Lusaka; on to Ahmedabad: Curtain falls on AfDB’s 2016 Annual Meetings

27/5/2016/AfDB The 51st Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the 42nd Meetings of the Board of Governors of the African Development Fund (ADF) wound up on Friday, May 27, 2016 in Lusaka, Zambia, after five days of intense engagements on the Bank’s operations and development issues. Held […]

Africa, “Workshop of the World”: Manufacturing strategies to unleash a continent

27/5/2016/AfDB Africa’s share of manufacturing in GDP is less than half of the average for all developing countries. On Thursday, May 26, a panel discussion, “Africa – Workshop of the World”, was held during the African Development Bank Group’s (AfDB) Annual Meetings in Lusaka. The event, organized in collaboration with […]

African Risk Capacity,AfDB sign MOU to enable African countries to respond to extreme weather events, natural disasters

27/5/2016/AfDB The African Risk Capacity has taken major steps towards its goal of providing US $2 billion worth of annual climate disaster coverage to Africa’s most vulnerable populations. ARC signed a Letter of Intent and a Memorandum of Understanding with the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Conférence Inter-Africaine des […]