African countries should start early to develop an agreed position before the next set of global priorities is discussed.

South Africa is taking over leadership of the Southern African Development Community with a push to deepen regional commerce, ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Chairperson, Cyril Ramaphosa, says peace and development need to work ...

Leaders from southern Africa will converge on Durban, South Africa, this weekend for their annual summit. The official agenda ...

The 2026 Africa Sustainable Development Report (ASDR 2026) is setting the direction for accelerated action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the African Union's Agenda 2063, as countries ...

This 2026 Africa Sustainable Development Report is released as African countries advance through the final phase of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development while continuing implementation of the ...

Foreign investors and African governments are boosting agricultural productivity and exports that blend business and social ...

In the period that followed decolonisation, Africa's development landscape continued to be shaped by Western partnerships. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, this Western-facing architecture took the ...

The countdown has begun. At the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) upcoming annual meetings on 26-30 May in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, the name of Akinwumi Adesina’s successor will finally be known. He or ...

Akinwumi Adesina remains fully mobilised to the end. At the end of July, he attended the Standard Chartered Africa Summit in Lagos, then, a few days later, inaugurated an agro-industrial zone in Oyo ...

The African Development Bank Group headquarters in Le Plateau, the business district of the Ivorian capital Abidjan. Issouf Sanogo /AFP via Getty Images Developing countries in general, and African ...