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African Leaders Join African Development Bank’s Call for Action to Reform the Global Financial Architecture at its 2024 Annual Meetings

With $200 billion invested in development projects across the continent since its establishment in 1964, the African Development Bank Group is leading the charge in transforming Africa’s development landscape, as a solutions bank. At the institution’s 2024 Annual Meetings in Nairobi, six African Presidents joined the Group’s President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina’s call for action to reform the […]


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