AfDB Vice Pres. Dr. Beth Dunford listens to entrepreneur Monique Kouakou Affouet describe how the Bank-financed Government Social Program Support Project boosted her business. African Development Bank Group Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, Dr. Beth Dunford, has commended the government of Cote d’Ivoire for its delivery of a Bank-financed project improving rural ...

A drone used for spraying phytosanitary products takes off in the village of Sokrogbo, in the south of Côte d’Ivoire. © RFI/Marine Jeannin By:RFIFollow In the small village of Sokrogbo, in the south of Côte d’Ivoire, locals never tire of a particular sight: the take-off of the T-10 drone, a 25 kilogram machine capable of spraying up ...

The president of the Pan-African Initiative for Integration and Development, Coulibaly Soumaïla (in white jacket, 2nd row from left to right) and representatives of youth and women’s associations after the conference on climate adaptation in Abengourou on Saturday 07 December 2024 Abengourou – The President of the Pan-African Initiative for Integration and Development, Coulibaly Soumaïla, ...

World Food Prize: Senegal local rice production, supported by the African Development Fund, is a source of national pride that contributes to food self-sufficiency. Editor’s Note: World leaders and experts in development, agriculture, economic policy, resource management and nutrition gather in Des Moines, Iowa this week for the annual presentation of the World Food Prize ...

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Absa Group Limited, a South Africa based bank, acting through its Corporate and Investment Banking division (Absa), will provide a commodity trade finance facility to Singapore-based Valency International Pte Ltd, a key player in Africa’s agricultural commodities market, to support the company’s pre-export of agricultural commodities ...

Joseph Ribeiro, the African Development Bank’s Deputy Director General for West Africa (middle), during his visit to the Singrobo-Ahouaty hydroelectric power plant. During a recent three-day field visit to central Côte d’Ivoire, Joseph Ribeiro, the African Development Bank’s Deputy Director General for West Africa, expressed his satisfaction with the progress of two high-impact projects funded ...

During a recent three-day field visit to central Côte d’Ivoire, Joseph Ribeiro, the African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.org) Deputy Director General for West Africa, expressed his satisfaction with the progress of two high-impact projects funded by the Bank Group that are set to revolutionize the country’s energy and agricultural landscapes. Ribeiro’s delegation, comprising Blanche Kiniffo, Programme ...

The funds will be used to build and rehabilitate infrastructure for the production of electricity from renewable sources, in order to diversify the energy mix, avoid CO2 emissions and reduce energy production costs ROME, Italy, August 5, 2024/ — The funds will be used to finance projects in the renewable energy sector aimed at mitigating ...

(L-R): Ken Aghoghovbia, Deputy Managing Director / COO of Africa Re; Michael Kofi Andoh, Acting Commissioner of Insurance of Ghana; Temitope Akinowa, Regional Director, West Africa-Anglophone of Africa Re; Nathaniel G.Baba, Director of insurance of Liberia In a significant move to address agricultural risk, the African Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re) recently orchestrated a three-day workshop ...

The pineapple industry in Cote d’Ivoire experienced a difficult year in 2023, according to an annual report published Thursday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). According to the report, the country’s exports of pineapples to the international market reached only 23,557 tonnes, representing a decrease of 27 percent compared to ...