EDITORIAL: Messy selection of AfDB’s next boss
Pretoria appears to have been caught off guard again with African Development Bank candidate
16 October 2024 - 05:00
The unseemly controversy swirling around the recruitment of the next president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has exposed glaring weaknesses in our economic diplomacy that need to be fixed urgently.
A fortnight ago, AfDB CFO Swazi Tshabalala resigned immediately from her post at the continental development institution. This was to avoid conflict of interest while she mounts a campaign to succeed Akinwumi Adesina, the Nigerian who has headed the bank for two decades...
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