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AfDB report highlights resilience in Africa’s trade finance sector

The African Development Bank (AfDB) says African financial institutions have shown resilience in the years following the COVID‑19 pandemic, despite ongoing global economic challenges.

African leaders call for stronger investment in energy, private capital mobilisation

African leaders have called for increased investment in key sectors and greater mobilisation of private capital to support the continent’s development agenda during a Presidential dialogue at the African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meetings in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

WHO warns of worsening Ebola crisis amid conflict in eastern DRC

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is facing a “catastrophic collision of disease and conflict” as an Ebola outbreak accelerates in a region already affected by violence and humanitarian pressures.