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...

The spiralling cost of capital, foundering efforts to restructure public debt and the election of a successor to Akinwumi Adesina as president of Development Bank (AfDB) are topping...

On the fringes of the African Union (AU) summit on 14 February, leaders announced the launch of the African Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA) planned for June to counter...

Despite its lofty ambitions, the African Union continues to punch well below its weight, reliant on foreign donors to finance the bulk of its budget and hamstrung by...

Akinwumi Adesina’s farewell tour as president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) started with the bank’s annual meetings in Nairobi – the latest in a conveyor belt of...

The battle for the leadership of the African Development Bank gets a new lease of life with the decision, under international pressure, by its executive directors to open...

With an execrable sense of timing, the African Development Bank, the continent's biggest financial institution, is consumed by a politicised battle over the future of its President, Adesina...