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This paper discusses how drug trafficking in West Africa causes severe economic, social, political and public health problems across the whole region. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...
On 30 April, the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) – which has been tasked since 1991 with maintaining a ceasefire and monitoring Africa’s...
The African Development Bank says Africa's economic development is being held back by a "hemorrhage" of illicit financial flows, which may be getting worse. Calling for reforms to stem the losses,...
Africa's economic development is being held back by a "hemorrhage" of illicit financial flows, which may be getting worse, the African Development Bank said on Friday, calling for reforms to stem...
Cabinet reminds all South Africans that our constitution guarantees the right to strike and protest within the confines of the law. Cabinet has noted with concern the spate of violent and...
Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on Tuesday accused opposition parties of seeking to score political points from the death of South African soldiers in the Central African Republic (or CAR).
For the AfDB, transforming Africa’s economies entails diversifying and expanding the sources of economic growth and opportunity in a manner that promotes greater productivity for sustained and...
Our countries are deeply concerned about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. While this has been known since nuclear weapons were first developed and is reflected in...
African finance ministers told their rich nation counterparts at weekend meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to work harder and faster to kick-start their economies to avoid...
South Africa ticked up two notches in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) latest Global Information Technology Report of which the Networked Readiness Index was central; but a number of factors...
On behalf of the President of the Bank Group, I have the pleasure of inviting you to the 48th Annual Meeting of the African Development Bank and the 39th Annual Meeting of the African Development...
A recent survey by global financial services provider Barclays has shown that, while the US and China remained favoured investment destinations for UK retailers, the majority believed that the...
In June 2012, the Islamic group Ansar Dine (a radical group with alleged links to al-Qaeda) took control of Timbuktu in northern Mali. The threat posed to the city, which contains thousands of...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched Open Data Platforms for the following 20 African countries: Algeria, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Morocco,...
Morocco is one African country that has made drastic changes in the last decade when it comes to the reduction of child labour.(2) Nevertheless, it is also a country with an overwhelming number of...