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Vol 66 No 12

Published 13th June 2025


Ould Tah faces brutal realities

The Bank’s new leader will have to bridge the widening gap between the continent’s ambitious goals and international economic turbulence

Mauritanian Sidi Ould Tah’s strongest qualification for the African Development Bank (AfDB) presidency was not his nationality – though that may have helped secure votes from North African shareholders, the bank’s biggest borrowers – but his decade-long leadership of the Banque Arabe pour le Développement Économique en Afrique (BADEA) in Khartoum. His election on 26 May, winning 76.18% of votes in the third round in Abidjan, aligned with the geopolitical moment.

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