On September 22, 2020 the President of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), Dr. George Donkor, signed a line of credit agreement in the amount of Fifty Million Euros ((€50m) with ORAGROUP represented by the Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Ferdinand Ngon Kemoum. The facility is for the financing of SMIs and PMEs in […]
On August 19, 2020, the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for West Africa and the Sahel who is also Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWAS), Dr. Ibn Chambas, was received by the President of EBID, Dr. George Agyekum Donkor, and key Management personel at the headquarters of the Bank […]
On August 6, 2020 the President of EBID, Dr. George Agyekum Donkor, paid a working visit to an ongoing EBID private sector infrastructure project, the Garden City Mall Ltd. in Kumasi. The project aims to boost the economic activities and job creation opportunities in Ghana. The facility is 75% completed and comprises a shopping mall, […]
As part of its programme of extending development support to frontline public service sectors in the sub region such as the judiciary, the President of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), Dr. George Agyekum Donkor, informed the Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana, His Lordship Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, of the commitment of […]
On July 28 July 2020, the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed a land mark line of credit agreement in the amount of fifty million Euros (€50m), at the headquarters of the Bank in Lomé, Togo. The AFD was represented by the Deputy Managing Director for Togo, […]
The newly appointed Vice-President Finance and Corporate Services of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), Dr. Mabouba Diagne assumed duty on 15 July 2020. Dr. Diagne is Senegalese and a seasoned international investment and development banker with more than twenty (20) years of various executive responsibilities in different parts of Africa. Prior to […]
The President of EBID, Dr. George Donkor was received in audience by His Excellency, the Prime Minister of the Togolese Republic, Mr. Selom Komi Klassou, on Friday, July 10 2020. The meeting was both a courtesy call and solidarity visit from the new President of EBID which provided him with the opportunity to express the […]
The 68th meeting of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) was held on Thursday, July 2, 2020. It was Bank’s second regional teleconference zoom meeting, coordinated from the headquarters in Lomé, Togolese Republic. Two public sector projects were approved for financing in Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoire, respectively. With regard to Sierra Leone, […]
In line with the multi-faceted commitment of EBID to tackling the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, the President of EBID, Dr. George Agyekum Donkor has urged stakeholders to review their Economic projections especially as Government revenue mobilization will be affected since there will be no introduction to tax due to low economic activities. Dr. was speaking during […]
Speech by the President of EBID, Dr George Donkor on ECOWAS Day On 28th May 2020, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its financial arm, EBID, will be forty-five (45) years old. The last four decades have witnessed the Community and its Bank develop resolutely from an ECOWAS of States to an […]
