Africa: Capital Increase Will Enable AfDB Meet Africa's Infrastructure Demands

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, has said that Africa's infrastructure needs will benefit most from a general capital increase as recommended… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Launches New Clean Energy Bonds

The African Development Bank (AfDB) rated Aaa/AAA/AAA, announced today two new Clean Energy bonds. These bonds follow the successful first Clean Energy bond issued earlier in March… Read more »

Africa: AfDB to Host Roundtable On Adaptation Economics for Africa in Tunis

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Africa: Historic 200 Percent Capital Increase Recommended for AfDB

Meeting yesterday in Washington DC, a committee of Governors representing the African Development Bank's shareholders endorsed a tripling of the Bank's capital resources to nearly… Read more »

Africa: African Development Bank President on Official Visit to Cape Verde

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, will be on official visit to Cape Verde from 27-30 April 2010. The mission builds on the strong partnership… Read more »

Africa: Minister Wade - "With AfDB Support, Senegal is in the Process of Catching Up in Infrastructure '

Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, on Tuesday, 20 April 2010 in Tunis, received Senegal's international cooperation and infrastructure minister, Karim Wade. Discussions between… Read more »

Africa: AfDB in Major Solar Energy Conference

The MENASOL 2010 - 2nd North Africa and Middle East Solar Conference centers on how to finance, develop and build utility scale solar projects in North Africa and Middle East… Read more »

Africa: Africa on the Rebound - African Development Bank's new private sector emphasis spurs growth

Shedding its long-standing "basket case" label, Africa is now one of the fastest growing regions in the world, behind only Asia and the Middle East, with a projected overall growth… Read more »

Africa: Margaret Kilo: "Governance is the Most Pressing Issue in Dealing With Fragile States"

Fragile states have become a priority for development institutions, especially the African Development Bank. In March 2008 the Bank established a Fragile States Facility (FSF) as… Read more »

Africa: ADEA: Educating for Sustainable Development

The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), organized in Tunis, 19-21 April 2010, a seminar on the preparation of its Triennale on education in Africa, a… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Records Notable Achievements in Climate Change and Clean Energy

Over the past one year, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has registered tremendous achievements in the area of climate change. Read more »

Africa: AfDB Research Department - "How Do We Build a Stronger Continent Now?"

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has played a key role in helping Africa adequately respond to the global financial crisis. Now that the crisis is over, how does the… Read more »

Africa: AfDB: The Role of Law in Development for the African Continent

The African Development Bank (AfDB) legal counsel, Kalidou Gadio, was in the U.S. where he participated in the 2010 Harvard African Law and Development Conference from 16-18 April… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Governors 11th Consultative Committee Meeting to Hold in Washington, D.C.

The eleventh meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Board of Governors Consultative Committee (GCC) will be held in Washington, D.C. on 23 April 2010 on the sidelines… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Green Growth Strategy to Usher New Green Deal for Africa

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group is undertaking a study to produce an "Africa Green Growth Strategy". Read more »

Africa: AfDB Joins Its Development Partners to Mark the 40th Earth Day

Forty years after, the Earth is still in the throes of climate change Read more »

Africa: AfDB and Tanzania Sign U.S.$ 233 Million Loan Agreements for Transport Sector

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and Tanzania have signed two loan agreements amounting to USD 233.3 million to finance a major rail and road transport project in the… Read more »

Africa: Making Finance Work for Africa Launches www.mfw4a.org

The Making Finance Work for Africa Partnership launched today www.mfw4a.org, a website that, for the first time, centralizes knowledge, news, and opinions on African financial… Read more »

Africa: AfDB And Uganda Sign U.S. $136.6 Million Loan Agreements

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and Uganda have signed loan agreements amounting to USD 136.6 million (UA 90 million*) to fund two major projects in the country. Read more »

Africa: "Thanks to AfDB Facilities, We Have Been Able to Expand Access to Water And Sanitation in Mali "

The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Wednesday, 14 April 2010, in Tunis received a Malian delegation led by the country's energy and water minister, Igor Diarra. The delegation… Read more »

Africa: French Parliamentary Mission At AfDB - Enhancing Complementarity

A French parliamentary mission, led by Member of Parliament, Jean-Paul Bacquet, was received on Thursday, April 15, 2010, in Tunis by African Development Bank Group officials where… Read more »

Africa: The AfDB Group Approves an AWF Grant to the Gambia

The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, approved an African Water Facility grant of 1,988,582 Euros to The Gambia to support a National Water Sector Reform… Read more »

Africa: AfDB/Uganda - Loan Agreements On Road Sector Project And Rural Income And Employment Enhancement Project

African Development Bank (AfDB) resident representative in Uganda, Patrick Khaemba, and Uganda's finance minister, Syda Bbumba, on 12 April 2010 in Kampala, signed loan agreements… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Group Approves FCFA 24 Billion for Benin Road Project

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a CFAF 23.9 Billion loan and grant… Read more »

Africa: AfBD President Rings Opening Bell At European Stock Exchanges

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, on Thursday, April 8, 2010, simultaneously opened all the European Stock Exchanges (NYSE Euronext) at the… Read more »