African Development Bank

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 an indepe...

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...

On the morning of 24 May, the universe of the African Development Bank shrank to a single room of the cavernous BEXPO exposition hall in Busan, South Korea's second city, where ban...

The worst is behind us, it is time to invest. That mood music – for the presidents, prime ministers, finance ministers, bankers and chief executives – played throughout...

Zambia's travails offered an emblematic backdrop for the annual meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Lusaka on 23-27 May. After a lengthy spending spree financed by re...

Bow-tied and beaming, Akinwumi Adesina seemed to sum up the spirit of Nigeria's revival. His election as President of the African Development Bank in Abidjan on 28 May was a clear ...

Outgoing President Donald Kaberuka leaves the African Development Bank in decent shape, with a tripled capital base of US$100 billion and disbursements of $6.95 bn. in 2014. Paid-i...

Struggling to raise money to finance power stations, roads and water projects, African governments are looking at how to use the tens of billions of government savings held outside...

After running the African Development Bank during the longest period of sustained economic growth on the continent since the 1960s, Donald Kaberuka is preparing to hand over the ba...

These are heady times for the African Development Bank. Against a background of resurgent economic growth, the AfDB started to celebrate its 50th birthday at its Annual Meeting in ...