What Ould Tah’s tenure at BADEA reveals about his AfDB candidacy, By Jide Akintunde

For the AfDB to remain credible in the evolving development finance environment, as it has successfully done under the outgoing President Akinwumi Adesina, it will require a leadership that understands both the internal discipline of multilateral institutions and the external demands of a changing global order.

On 8 April, the Board of Governors of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) appointed Abdullah Almusaibeeh, a Kuwaiti national, as the bank’s new…