At the end of the third ballot, on May 29, 2025 in Abidjan, the Mauritanian Sidi Ould Tah was elected President of the African Development Bank (AfDB). At the end of the third round, the Mauritanian obtained 76.18% of the votes, against 20.26% for Samuel Maimbo and 3.55% for

The former president of BADEA and former minister of the economy of Mauritania won the third round in one of the shortest elections in the history of the ADB, which has 81 member countries, including 54 African countries. More than the score, it was the African consensus that impressed people. Sidi Ould Tah obtained 72.37% of the non-regional vote. He is ahead of the Zambian Samuel Munzele Maimbo, who collected 20.26%, according to official results. The Senegalese Amadou Hott came in third with 3.55%

In total, five candidates were running for the election on Thursday, in the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan, where the headquarters of the ADB, one of the major multilateral development banks, is located. Throughout the voting rounds, Mr. Tah won the votes of many countries in this election where the weight of each shareholder state is weighted by the size of its stake in the bank's capital. The five largest African contributors: Nigeria, Egypt, Egypt, Algeria, Algeria, South Africa and Morocco, were particularly courted, as were the United States and Japan, the largest non-regional contributors