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...
One of his first diplomatic assignments for new AfDB President Sidi Ould Tah may be to persuade the governments of Ghana and Zambia to reconsider their position on Afreximbank...
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Raising capital will be the first immediate challenge facing Sidi Ould Tah elected on 27 May as the new president of the African Development Bank (AfDB)...
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Of the five candidates vying for the AfDB Presidency Mauritania's Sidi Ould Tah and Zambia's Samuel Munzele Maimbo have emerged as frontrunners...
Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana are said to be backing Mauritania's Sidi Ould Tah after his campaign arranged meetings with Alassane Dramane Ouattara and John Dramani Mahama respectively...
SIDI OULD TAH – MAURITANIADuring his 10-year tenure at the Khartoum-based Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (Banque Arabe pour le Développement Économique en Afrique BADEA) Sidi Ould Tah oversaw a 75% increase to $7bn in total assets...
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Funding cuts from the United States and other western economies could favour Sidi Ould Tah of Mauritania the Director-General of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) as best positioned to tap Islamic banks and Gulf states...
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