In his keynote address, Solomon Quaynor, Vice-President for Private Sector, Infrastructure & Industrialization at AfDB, emphasized that AI is not a luxury, but a strategic necessity.

Discussions at a side event held during the African Development Bank Group’s 2025 Annual Meeting unpacked the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a ...

The African Development Bank and the Islamic Development Bank are pooling a $610m joint initiative to combat climate-driven fragility and bolster resilience in Africa’s most vulnerable regions ...

Mauritania's ex-finance minister and presidential adviser has run the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa for the past decade. "The AfDB must break free from legacy constraints and ...

Nigerian economist Akinwumi Adesina will wrap up his tenure as the president of the African Development ... with the bank and the challenges that lie ahead for Africa. Reflecting on the effects ...

The African Development Bank Group's 2025 Annual Meetings open next week amidst shifting winds of global trade. Forty-seven of Africa's fifty-four countries have been affected by new U.S. trade ...

less than half the sum raised by the Inter-American Development Bank for a region less than half as populous. Africa remains the only region where the World Bank is still a bigger project backer ...