Africa: High-Level Panel On Fragile States to Launch Report On Overcoming Fragility in Africa

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Africa: AfDB Approves U.S.$34.8 Million for Public Financial and Macroeconomic Management Project in Sudan

The AfDB Board of Directors, on 17 December 2013 in Tunis, approved US$ 34.8 million grant resources from its Fragile State Facility (FSF) to finance the Public Financial and… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Approves U.S.$ 25 Million Pan-African Infrastructure Development Fund 2

The AfDB Board of Directors on 17 December 2013 in Tunis, Tunisia approved US$ 25 million equity investment in the Second Pan African Infrastructure Development Fund (PAIDF-2), a… Read more »

Africa: High-Level Panel on Fragile States to Launch Report on Overcoming Fragility in Africa

The African Development Bank's High-Level Panel on Fragile States will launch on Thursday, January 30, 2014 in Addis Ababa the report on Partnerships for Resilient States and… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Board Approves U.S. $25 Million Investment in Pan-African Infrastructure Development Fund

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank on Tuesday, December 17, 2013 in Tunis, approved a US $25-million equity investment in the Second Pan-African Infrastructure… Read more »

Africa: ADF U.S.$26 Million Grant to Expand Electricity Distribution Networks in South Sudan

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) approved an African Development Fund (ADF) Grant of US $26 million , to rehabilitate and expand the distribution… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Gathers Partners in Tunis to Advance Sustainable Energy for All in Africa

The African Development Bank as host of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Africa Hub organized a two-day workshop in Tunis with representatives of partner institutions. The… Read more »

Africa: Japan Supports AfDB in Entrepreneurship

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the government of Japan signed on 16 December, 2013 a bilateral Exchange of Notes for a loan to the AfDB of 9.48 billion Japanese yen (about… Read more »

Africa: AfDB and China to Engage On Environmental and Social Sustainability

An AfDB delegation, led by its Compliance and Safeguard Experts, will be travelling to Beijing from December 17-19 to exchange with Chinese authorities on policies and guidelines… Read more »

Africa: Gender Equality has Strong Influence on Growth, Employment, Food Security and Poverty Reduction Efforts Benefiting the Entire Economy

The Executive Director for Canada, Kuwait, South Korea, China and Turkey, and Chair of the African Development Bank Group's Board Committee on Operations and Development… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Allocates U.S.$184.79 Million to Multinational Trans-Sahara Highway Project

Prospects for the construction of a 9,022-kilometre strategic Trans-Sahara Highway (TSH) linking several African countries was concretised on Wednesday, 11 December 2013 in Tunis… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Will Mobilize a Full Range of Financing Instruments to Advance Sustainable Energy for All Initiative - Kaberuka

The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Initiative, Kandeh Yumkella, held talks with African Development Bank President… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Holds Consultation Day On Its New Governance Strategy

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is organizing final technical consultations with representatives from across Africa on its new Governance Strategy for 2014-2018. Read more »

Africa: Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative Meets in Abuja

The first Rural Water and Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI) Coordination Committee took place in in Abuja, Nigeria on 5 December 2013. The meeting aimed to facilitate coordination at… Read more »

Africa: "We Need to Mobilize the Right Level of Resources to Push the Gender Agenda," AfDB Gender Retreat Heard

"Working in synergy and speaking in the same voice for harmonized implementation of the strategy to mainstream gender in Bank operations," was the centrepiece of discussions among… Read more »

Africa: Service for the Memorial of President Nelson Mandela - Remarks by the AfDB President Donald Kaberuka

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Africa: AfDB to Play a Greater Role in Natural Resources Stewardship on the Continent

"The current commodity super-cycle being enjoyed by resource-driven economies could simply disappear without lasting benefits if it is not harnessed into durable development… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Approves U.S. $20 million Trade Finance Line of Credit for Shelter Afrique

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Wednesday, December 11 a US $20 million Trade Finance Line of Credit for the Company for Habitat and… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Launches Information Center for the Extractive Sector

The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Wednesday, December 11 in Nairobi, Kenya, launched the Information Center for the Extractive Sector (ICES), a platform that promotes… Read more »

North Africa: AfDB Publishes a Comparative Approach on the Search for iInclusive Growth in North Africa

A new economic brief published by the African Development Bank shows that the longstanding relationship between growth and distribution in economics has been revived in recent… Read more »

Africa: AMCOW Receives 2 million Euros in AWF Funding for Water Sector Reporting

The African Water Facility (AWF) has offered the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) a €2 million grant to establish a monitoring and reporting system for the water… Read more »

Africa: Report On "A Future Partnership Between France and Africa" Pays Tribute to Work of the AfDB

Thirty-two times. Indeed, the initials "AfDB", for African Development Bank, appear 32 times in the report entitled "Un partenariat pour l'avenir: 15 propositions pour une nouvelle… Read more »

Africa: Financial Inclusion for a Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in Africa

A new publication, Financial Inclusion in Africa, released on Monday, December 9 by the Complex of the Chief Economist of the African Development Bank (AfDB) finds that for… Read more »

Africa: AfDB President Joins World Leaders to Mark Late "Madiba" Nelson Mandela Rites

AfDB President Donald Kaberuka is among the world leaders and dignitaries who are in Johannesburg to pay final respects to Nelson Mandela, who will finally be laid to rest on… Read more »

Africa: The Republic of Turkey Joins African Development Bank Group

The Republic of Turkey participated in the African Development Bank Group's Board Meetings for the first time last week in Tunis, following the country's admission as the 26th… Read more »