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Blinken Hails AfDB for Its Exemplary Development Works

January 30, 2024

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The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has commended the African Development Bank Group for the exceptional efforts it is undertaking to help Africa feed itself and the rest of the world.

Blinken said that extraordinary work is being done to get to a place where Africa feeds itself and a place where Africa feeds the world. He said that that would happen with the type of fertile land resources the continent has. Secretary of State Blinken was hosted by AfDB Group President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina in Abidjan recently when the former visited the West African country. The two met at the headquarters of AfricaRice—a pan-African centre of excellence for rice research, development, and capacity building that implements Bank agricultural programs.

President Adesina said that it was the first time that a US Secretary of State would visit the African Development Bank and its work. Secretary Blinken’s visit was historic and provided great momentum for AfDB work to feed Africa.

Adesina also thanked Blinken for a new grant of US$9.5 million to support the Bank’s Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation initiative, or TAAT. The grant, which is a part of the larger US Government “Feed the Future” global hunger initiative, will be used for the second phase of the Bank program called TAAT II, to help African countries increase food production, introduce climate-smart technologies, and expand extension services.

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The United States of America is the second-largest shareholder of all African Development Bank member countries, and the largest contributor in cumulative terms to the African Development Fund, which provides concessional funding to Africa’s poorest countries..