Mauritania rallies support for its candidate to head the African Development Bank (Sahara Media)

The Mauritanian delegation, headed by the Minister of Economy and Finance, Sid Ahmed Abou, held a ceremony in Washington, DC, yesterday evening, attended by representatives of countries influential in the voting process for the presidency of the African Development Bank. The ceremony was part of a campaign to support the candidacy of Mauritanian economist Sidi Ould Tah for the position. A participant in the ceremony told Sahara Media that the co…

Entitled "Who Will Be the Next President of the African Development Bank?", the debate held on 24 April 2025 in Washington, D.C., at the invitation of the Brookings Institute, will have had the merit of bringing to light a reality: Chadian Mahamat Abbas Tolli used a translation helmet to follow the conversation. Unless this was a deliberate choice! In his discharge, the former President of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) might retort t…