African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina who has led the ‘structured dialogue' effort to facilitate Zimbabwe's re-engagement with international creditors – to whom it owes $10bn in interest principal and penalties arrears – remains a key to the debt negotiations...

The AfDB's President Akinwumi Adesina who strongly supports the agency said the rates are ‘three to four times higher' (AC Vol 65 No 12 Adesina urges the bank to go private)...

Five candidates are currently in the running to replace Akinwumi Adesina who has served two terms...

Opposition leaders Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi sided with Dangote as did African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina (AC Vol 64 No 25 Opposition left outmanoeuvred)...

That was lambasted by economists including Akinwumi Adesina President of the African Development Bank...

Ahead of the summit Kenya's President William Ruto Mauritania's Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and the AfDB's Akinwumi Adesina penned co-ordinated opinion pieces demanding new measures on debt restructuring more flexibility in the use of IMF Special Drawing Rights and easier access for African states to concessional funding (AC Vol 65 No 12 Adesina urges the bank to go private)...

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 summits hosted by Kenya's President William Ruto...

The race to replace Adesina Akinwumi Adesina's second and final five-year term ends next year and his potential successors cannot apply for the job before September...