Abidjan (INA) – I announced today in Ivory Coast the return of the African Development Bank to its headquarters in Abidjan, starting next September, according to what was stated by the bank’s president, Donald Kaberuka. The bank had moved to Tunisia for more than a decade, due to the absence of Political stability in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). The bank’s president said in a press conference that: The bank was forced to headquarter in Tunisia, because of the political and military crisis that erupted in the country, and the first meeting of the board of directors will be on the eighth of September in Abidjan, and the credit for all of this is due to the country’s president, Hassan Ouattara, Who defended the case, and added: The return of the bank is the best evidence of the stability of the situation in the country. The operations of the African Development Bank in 2014 will reach nine billion dollars, of which three billion will be spent to support the private sector in the continent, while the expectations of the bank's operations in 2013 amounted to eight billion dollars. The President of the Bank stressed that 60 percent of the investments in 2014 AD will support infrastructure, including the energy sector in the continent, and he also expressed his joy at the decrease in the poverty rate in sub-Saharan Africa, which witnessed a decrease from 54 percent in the year 2000 AD. , to less than 30 percent now. Côte d'Ivoire is witnessing gradual stability after a decade of political and military crisis, which culminated in the post-election crisis of 2010-2011, which resulted in the deaths of more than 3000 people. (End) Iman Al-Zwaini
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