By Abiud OchiengThe Employment and Labour Relations court has temporarily stopped Barclays Bank from shutting down its regional office in Nairobi by the end of this month, and declaring some staff redundant.Judge Monica Mbaru on Thursday granted the or…
By John NjagiJubilee MPs on Thursday accused Cord of presenting fake Okoa Kenya referendum signatures to the electoral commission.”We have reliable information that the signatures Cord presented to the IEBC are not genuine,” said National Assembly Lead…
Africa’s private sector will continue to lead the continent towards economic transformation, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina said Monday at the launch of the fourth Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan. Addressing some 500 CEOs from 43 Afri…
Sierra Leone has received a $300,000 grant from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) to prepare a far-reaching national Investment Plan (IP) to transform its renewable energy sector. The IP will be developed under the CIF’s Program for Scaling Up Renewab…
The President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, will lead a top-level Bank team on a working visit to Japan, Korea and China from March 24-29. During the visit, the team will engage with top government officials of these c…
It seems we are all agreed that the solutions lie within Africa,” said Charles Boamah, Acting First Vice-President and COO of the African Development Bank, and moderator of a panel debating the power and potential of African local capital markets on Da…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has released Financing Change: the AfDB and CIF for a Climate-Smart Africa, its 2015 Annual Report for its Climate Investment Funds (CIF) portfolio. The report demonstrates that by the end of 2015 through its AfDB-su…
A 40-member delegation of Japanese investors paid a courtesy call on the African Development Bank Group in Abidjan on Monday, March 21, 2016, and met with AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina. The meeting focused on further strengthening AfDB-Japan cooperat…
Monrovia, Liberia – Cabinet has taken major policy decisions and mandated appropriate actions that will enhance “Tier One Performance” of the administration’s agenda with a view to matching programs with implementation. According to an Executive Mansio…