The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund on Wednesday approved a loan of around $116 million to the Tanzanian government to upgrade a 160-km Mnivata-Newala-Masasi road corridor in the southern part of the country. The Bank’s loan...

Small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are impacted disproportionately by climate change, poverty and undernutrition, yet a report released on September 20, 2021 shows many remain optimistic about the future of farming. Of the thousands of farmers taking part in...

Africa Data Centers, the only pan-African network of interconnected, carrier-and cloud-neutral data centers on the continent, has completed its new Johannesburg data center, based in its Midrand Campus which is one of the largest in Africa. This state-of-the-art facility,...

The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes (Global Forum), the World Bank Group and the African Development Bank have jointly published a new version of the Manual on Exchange of Information, in order to...

The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, has named Accra (Ghana) as UNESCO World Book Capital for 2023, following the evaluation of the World Book Capital Advisory Committee.After Guadalajara (Mexico) in 2022, the city of Accra was selected for its...