African Development Bank

As the race heats up to succeed Morocco's Omar Kabbaj as President of the African Development Bank (AC Vol 44 No 3) next year, Ghana's Kingsley Amoako, Executive...

The African Development Bank's new African Economic Outlook, jointly published with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, inveighs against the usual targets of poor governance, corruption, and...

Anti-globalisation demonstrators, worries about security at headquarters in Côte d'Ivoire and competition over rival African development plans intruded on the businesslike buzz of the African Development Bank's annual...

With a 35 per cent capital increase for the African Development Bank and a replenishment for its soft-loan fund under his belt, ADB President Omar Kabbaj launched...

Congo confusion reigned as the 20th Franco-African Summit drew to a close in Paris on 28 November. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke confidently of an immediate cessation of hostilities;...

Having pushed through a 35 per cent capital increase and new voting rules favouring Western shareholders, the African Development Bank’s Moroccan President, Omar Kabbaj, now talks of redefining...

One of African Development Bank President Omar Kabbaj’s greatest supporters is, we hear, King Hassan II. Kabbaj’s successful tenure at the ADB has done much to shore up...

A new confrontation is brewing over control of the African Development Bank. On 23 March in Abidjan, the governors from 12 leading member countries will make their plans...

After five years of acrimony and financial uncertainty among shareholders, the African Development Bank is likely to agree on a substantial capital increase by next year and step...

Morocco's Omar Kabbaj is a man to make the trains run on time. Under his Presidency, the annual meeting of the African Development Bank (22-23 May) finished a...