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African Development Bank: 'No Decision' Yet on Demands for Probe

Agence France-Presse

   The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Thursday said "no decision" had
   been taken regarding a U.S. push for an outside probe into its chief,
   accused by whistleblowers of ethics breaches.

   U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says Washington is dissatisfied
   with the outcome of an internal inquiry that has exonerated AfDB chief
   Akinwumi Adesina.

   The chair of the AfDB board, Niale Kaba, who is also Ivory Coast's
   minister of development, said the panel met on Tuesday "to examine the
   issue emerging from a whistleblowers' complaint" against Adesina.

   "No decision has been taken," she said in a statement in French,
   countering what she said was information "falsely conveyed by certain
   media."

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