AfDB Archives – CEO East Africa

The $10 Billion Mega-Airport Financing Partnership Between Ethiopian Airlines and African Development Bank Takes Off

Brian EmorutGlobal News News & AnalysisAugust 14, 2025August 14, 2025

Ethiopia’s ambition to build a new international airport that will rival some of the world’s biggest, took off on Monday with a monumental signing ceremony marking the African Development Bank’s…

RWANDAN CEOs FIXING RWANDA⎮The unstoppable rise of the homegrown Rwandan CEO

Muhereza KyamuteteraEast Africa News & Analysis The Big StoryApril 10, 2024May 3, 2024

This April, Rwandans in Rwanda and the world over commemorate 30 years (Kwibuka30) after the ghastly genocide in which more than 1,000,000 Tutsi, were killed. But like the Rwandan President Paul Kagame, remarked at the Kwibuka30, this year’s commemoration is a mix of both “grief and gratitude in equal measure”. “We remember our dead and are also grateful for what Rwanda has become,” Kagame told friends of Rwanda at the ceremony held at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, in Kigali, Rwanda, on Sunday, April 7, 2024. The genocide began on April 7th 1994. The East African nation, under the leadership…

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African Banker Awards 2023: Letshego Wins Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa Award

Muhereza KyamuteteraBusiness & Markets Company News The Big StoryMay 25, 2023May 29, 2023

Letshego Nigeria has won the prestigious 2023 Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) Award at the just-ended African Banker Awards. The awards were held in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt on 24th May 2023. Letshego was feted for allocating at least 63% of its loans to women-led SMEs in just one year. The award is a joint initiative of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and African Guarantee Fund, that acknowledges and encourages initiatives aimed at propelling financial inclusivity for “Women across the African continent”. The AfDB’s AFAWA is a Pan-African initiative to bridge the $ 42 billion financing gap facing women…

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