World Bank President Ajay Banga said boosting access to electricity is the key to unlocking the demographic dividend in the ...

Some $35 billion is aimed at building small solar sites in rural areas and other improvements. The World Bank chief called ...

A coalition of leading African civil society groups called on the World Bank to exit its investments in for-profit hospitals, ...

The World Bank Group and the AfDB have pledged a combined donation of $48 billion to provide electricity to 300 million ...

The World Bank and the African Development Bank, supported by a host of other partners, have launched Mission 300, an ...

With contributions from the World Bank, African Development Bank, Rockefeller Foundation and others, the initiative seeks to ...

African heads of state, business leaders, and development partners will converge tomorrow in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for the ...

The African Development Bank is developing mechanisms to increase access to local-currency debt that the continent needs to ...

The World Bank Group has reaffirmed its commitment to tackling Africa’s energy deficit, aiming to provide electricity to half of ...

Africa's development bank is proposing a new 'gold standard' style currency arrangement backed by critical minerals such as ...

Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African ...

Nigeria's central bank expects the economy to expand by 4.17% this year, Governor Olayemi Cardoso said on Thursday, driven by ...