OREANDA-NEWS. The Steering Committee of the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank met on 11 February, 2015 at the Bank’s headquarters in Abidjan and agreed to the following list of candidates for the election of the next President of the African Development Bank.

The official list of candidates, in alphabetical order, released on February 20 is as follows:

1. Akinwumi A. ADESINA          Nigeria

2. Sufian AHMED                       Ethiopia

3. Jaloul AYED                          Tunisia

4. Kordje BEDOUMRA               Chad

5. Cristina DUARTE                   Cabo Verde

6. Samura M. W. KAMARA        Sierra Leone

7. Thomas Z. SAKALA               Zimbabwe

8. Birama Boubacar SIDIBE     Mali