New Head at Top African Development Bank Faces Funding Squeeze
Delegates at an African Development Bank meeting.
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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.