Africa Day: Ideas For Africa — By Cristina Duarte, Candidate for President of the African Development Bank (AfDB)

It has come to our attention that individuals and various agents are purporting to be in a position to help in doing business with the African Development Bank Group with fraudulent intentions, including the of soliciting funds as compensation. Such misrepresentations are usually, but not exclusively, in the form of fraudulent email using fake emails accounts.The African Development Bank Group takes this violation of the Bank’s corporate value of integrity seriously and is committed to...

>Nearly 50 per cent of all Africans live in seven countries, Nigeria and Ethiopia leading. It is self-evident that if we are to make a dent on poverty on transformation in Africa what happens in those seven countries will be critical.

The World Bank Vice President for Africa region, Makhtar Diop.

The World Bank Vice President for Africa region, Makhtar Diop will visit Tanzania on July 2 and 3.

In addition to having an official meeting with President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete and taking part in other meetings with high level Government officials, Diop will also attend the event marking 50 years since the first World Bank project for Tanzania was approved by the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors.

The anniversary event, which...

A special edition of BBC World Service’s global radio programme, BBC Africa Debate, will be coming from the British Museum in London. Presented by the BBC’s Alex Jakana and Zeinab Badawi and recorded in front of an invited audience, it will ask if Africa has outgrown development aid.
Ten years ago the British Museum hosted the launch of the UK-government-led ‘Commission for Africa’. This was the time of a popular global movement to Make Poverty History in Africa, a revival of Live Aid...

On the Left: Mr. David Robinson, ‎Deputy Director, African Department at International Monetary Fund (IMF); in the middle: Mr. Armando Manuel, Chair of the African Caucus and Minister of Finance of Angola.

*The forum assembles more than nineteen Ministers of Finance and fourteen Governors of the Central Banks

The development of the continent continues to be affected by insufficient resources.

The President of the African Group and Minister of Finance of Angola, Armando Manuel, declared in...

 Standard Chartered Bank’s Chief Executive Officer for the Eastern Africa region and Kenya, Lamin Manjang, (centre), speaks to the Hon. Vice President, Dr. Bilal, when the Bank’s Officials visited him at his office earlier this week. Left is the Bank’s Chief Executive Officer for Tanzania, Liz Lloyd.

How NABA is Supporting African Bank Development  The African Exponent

  President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete chats  with the Millicom International Cellular South Africa Executive Vice President for Africa, Mr Arthur Bastings, who paid a courtesy call on him Wednesday January 14, 2015 at the State House in Dar es salaam  President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete chats with the Millicom International Cellular South Africa Executive Vice President for Africa, Mr Arthur Bastings, who paid a courtesy call on him Wednesday January 14, 2015 at the State House in Dar es salaam