Babacar N'Diaye

The current situation is turning into the worst institutional crisis at the bank since the 1990s when its veteran Senegalese President Babacar N'Diaye was battling four executive directors trying to rein in his powers...

They cite former AfDB head Babacar Ndiaye's ambitious expansion of the AfDB in the 1990s which provoked bitter political disputes and the bank losing its AAA credit rating (AC Vol 37 No 7 Funding fall-off)...

In previous elections Paris has assiduously backed the Francophone candidate (Morocco's Omar Kabbaj 1995-2005 and Senegal's Babacar N'Diaye 1985-95 and was initially concerned that Kaberuka who grew up as a Rwandan refugee in Uganda but worked for many years in Côte d'Ivoire was not Francophone enough...

Investors include Baeoro Fahdil a Cameroonian industrialist; Mike Akhigbe said to have amassed a fortune as deputy to Nigeria's former military head of state Abdulsalami Abubakar; and Babacar Ndiaye Senegalese former President of the ADB...

He left Luanda to join the African Development Bank in Abidjan where he became the chef de cabinet to ADB President Babacar N'Diaye...

Fall who had been close to former President Babacar Ndiaye until they fell out in the early 1990s had his position upgraded to vice-presidential status at the annual meeting...

The idea is to avoid the build up of warring camps in the board and the presidency which happened under Kabbaj's predecessor Babacar Ndiaye...

Formerly chef de cabinet for President Babacar Ndiaye Fall was appointed director for Southern Africa after the two fell out...

Perhaps unfairly a lot of mud is sticking to former President Babacar Ndiaye and his wife Marlyatou who thoughtfully were in America for the duration of the meeting...

Former President Babacar Ndiaye is now no longer seen around the Bank but still lives in a villa thoughtfully provided by the Ivorian government...