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New Head at Top African Development Bank Faces Funding Squeeze

Delegates at an African Development Bank meeting.

Photographer: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images

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The next leader of the African Development Bank faces a formidable task: pivoting the continent’s biggest multilateral lender away from its reliance on the US and Europe, and securing billions of dollars of funding from other sources.