内容摘要：He has formerly held senior government roles in Mauritania, including minister of agriculture and minister of economy and rural development, and was an economic advisor to the president.

He has formerly held senior government roles in Mauritania, including minister of agriculture and minister of economy and rural development, and was an economic advisor to the president.

The vote came during the bank’s annual meetings in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where economic headwinds — from debt distress to climate shocks — have dominated discussions.Observers see Tah’s leadership as pivotal in steering the institution through a period of rising pressure on African economies and tightening global development finance.

As the institution undergoes a leadership transition, the Trump administration is, slashing $555 million in funding. The White House says such a commitment no longer aligns with the administration’s priorities.“The AfDB’s role is now more critical than ever,” said Bismark Rewane, an economist and chief executive of Lagos-based Financial Derivatives Co. He called for “African resilience” at a time when “no one is going to pick the chestnut out of the fire” for African countries.

“Africa has to look more inwards and be innovative in its thinking to thrive,” Rewane said.Since 2015, Tah has been managing the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa, based in Khartoum, Sudan.

He has formerly held senior government roles in Mauritania, including minister of agriculture and minister of economy and rural development, and was an economic advisor to the president.

Adebayo reported from Abuja, Nigeria.“Very importantly, we are discussing how to build new regional economic value chains that link our countries, including with American private sector investment,” he said.

Trump’s senior adviser for Africa, Massad Boulos, the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, helped broker the U.S. role in promoting security in east Congo, part of an opening that Boulos has said could involve multibillion-dollar investments.The response from Congolese civil society Friday mixed hope with skepticism.

Rights advocate Christophe Muisa in Goma, a city in east Congo that the powerful, Rwandan-backed M23 armed group seized earlier this year, said the U.S. is the main beneficiary of the deal. He urged his government not to “subcontract its security.”Georges Kapiamba, the president of the Congolese Association for the Access to Justice, a nongovernmental organization focusing on rights, justice and addressing corruption, said he supported a mineral-and-security deal with the U.S., but worried his own government could blow it by siphoning off the proceeds.