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ECOWAS HAILS SUCCESS OF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK INVESTMENTS

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“Let West Africa’s success echo throughout the World”

The African Development Bank’s investments in West Africa are yielding remarkable results, the President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, has said.

He was speaking at the bloc’s recent 56th Ordinary Session, attended by regional Heads of State and Government.

Brou said the Bank had provided “invaluable technical and financial interventions…in the implementation of numerous projects and programmes.”

The region’s economy is showing positive achievements, reaching 3.3 percent growth in 2019, he said, “despite facing significant challenges, particularly with regards to security. ECOWAS member states have demonstrated remarkable resilience.”

In a speech, Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, assured ECOWAS that his country was committed to regional integration, requesting members to channel collective energies towards accelerating sustainable peace, security, stability and inclusive economic growth.

“It is always gratifying when our regional bloc comes together to advance our agenda for regional integration and promote the socioeconomic development of our subregion,” he told the high-level meeting.

For his part, the President of the African Development Bank, Akinwunmi Adesina, put the Bank’s current portfolio of investments in West Africa at $20 billion, with a strong focus on critical sectors.

“The African Development Bank has always been there at the right time, with the right product, for the right needs of countries,” Adesina told delegates.

“Such was the case in Nigeria, where the Bank helped to provide $600 million of budget support that helped it get out of recession, a tough time for Nigeria. The Bank also provided $500 million to establish the Development Bank of Nigeria. And, we provided $280 million to support social investments in Côte d’Ivoire,” he added.

“You can always count on the African Development Bank – your Bank,” Adesina assured delegates.

The Bank’s support in the region includes €525 million for the construction of the Blaise Diagne International Airport in Senegal and $120 million for the new Terminal 3 for Kotoka International Airport in Ghana

The African Development Bank also provided $30 million for the construction of the Mandela Praia Airport in Cabo Verde, and $130 million for Air Côte d’Ivoire to acquire a new aircraft fleet.

Other investments include €60 million for the Lomé Container Terminal Port and another $96 million for the new landmark Senegambia Bridge that now links the Gambia and Senegal. A €183 million facility was critical for Senegal’s Regional Express Train.

During the Bank’s second Africa Investment Forum held in November 2019, the institution and its partners mobilized investments of $2.6 billion for the development of the Accra Sky Train and $251 million towards the Lagos Cable Car Transit System projects.

Adesina also highlighted the Bank’s $1.5 billion financing for the development of major transport corridors to improve connectivity in the ECOWAS region. This includes the construction and rehabilitation of 4,000 kilometers of main corridor roads.

The Lagos-Abidjan Highway will become a reality, the Bank’s President told the regional leaders.

The African Development Bank is providing $11.1 million to the ECOWAS Commission to develop the Master Plan for the Lagos-Abidjan highway corridor and will be providing an additional $13.5 million for feasibility studies to be completed next year. It expects construction to start in 2022.

Current initiatives include a $25 billion investment to turn Africa into a global powerhouse in food and agriculture. This includes financing special agro-industrial processing zones in northern Togo, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal.

During the one-day meeting, ECOWAS leaders deliberated on critical issues affecting the region, including the proposed ECO single currency regime for the sub-region and the Action Plan for Regional Security.

Adesina summed up the Bank’s vision for ECOWAS: “An integrated monetary zone and financial markets, a free zone for trade, with free movement of people, capital, goods and services, an ECOWAS region whose new currency would be ECO, and the echoes of that will reverberate across the world.”

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