Talk:African Development Bank
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Problems with "CEO,Founder,Owner and head leader" section
editWho put this section in here? Not only is it full of typos and is 100% unsourced (the subject of this section, a Mr. "Laston M," doesn't even have his full name included), as far as I can tell it's completely fabricated or included in the wrong article. I tried editing it out once (because it is 100% fake information) but I guess Wikipedia's bots rejected the edit.
As you can see from the Organizational Structure of the AfDB, "CEO" or "head leader" is not a real position in the organization. Furthermore, according to this page on the AfDB's website, the AfDB has never had a president named "Laston M." In addition, simply reading through this wikipedia article will reveal that the information in this section contradicts other parts of the article (such as the well-sourced "Management and control" section).
I propose that this section either: 1) be deleted by anybody who is able to do so (as I said, my edits were rejected); or 2) cleaned up with spellchecking and citations, if indeed the information in this section is accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:151:C300:6EA9:C934:150D:9697:EA4F (talk) 17:41, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
ADB or AfDB
editCurrently, the article uses the abbreviation "ADB" when referring to the bank. However, even the bank's website uses the abbreviation AfDB, most likely to distinguish itself from the Asian Development Bank.
Are there any objections to changing ADB to AfDB within this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Baeksu (talk • contribs) 04:24, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
I worked on one occasion as a freelance for the African Development Bank - in 1980 - and its acronym was ADB in English and BAD in French. Its formation predated that of the Asian Development Bank, so can someone - ideally within the African Development Bank - please tell me when and why it changed from being the ADB to being the AfDB?
Moneyhill (talk) 09:19, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Major rewrite
editI just finished a major rewrite of the whole article. Most of the sections were way too long and prosaic, and also copied directly from the bank's website.
I tried to preserve all actual information, and reorganize the sections in a more sensible order.
I also cleaned up and added several wikilinks.
The bank consistently refers to itself by the abbreviation "AfDB" on its own web site and materials. "ADB" is usually used for the Asian Development Bank. So I changed each occurrence of "ADB" to "AfDB". Baeksu (talk) 01:01, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Libya
editWhy is Libya not listed as a member? See here: [1]. Alinor (talk) 16:08, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Passports
editWhy can the bank issue it's own coded passports(Code BAD)?
And why in Tanzania? (ref. https://www.afdb.org/en/annual-meetings-2012/practical-information/visa-and-passports/)
62.219.123.172 (talk) 10:37, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
Ireland becomes 27th non-African member
editIts membership was approved yesterday by the Bank's President. [1] Culloty82 (talk) 14:48, 6 May 2020 (UTC)