Africa: AfDB Attends the African Green Revolution Forum

The African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) was officially opened on Thursday, 2 September 2010 in Accra, Ghana. The three-day forum, which is being held for the first time in… Read more »

Ghana: African Water Facility Grant for Ghana Project

The African Water Facility (AWF) has approved a 498,000 Euros grant to the Water Resources Commission in Ghana. Read more »

Africa: Main One Cable Completes Fibre Cable Lay From Portugal Through to Ghana And Nigeria

The celebration of the final splice of the Main One submarine cable, a project financed in part by the African Development Bank (AfDB) through its private sector window, was held… Read more »

Africa: Enhancing Ghana's Transport Sector

Since the Bank Group commenced operations in Ghana in 1973, it has invested over USD 1.6 billion on concessionary terms in all sectors of the country's economy. In the transport… Read more »

Africa: Financing of a Water Supply and Sanitation Service Project for Urban Poor in Ghana

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a €1,979,000 grant to finance the a water, sanitation and hygiene service delivery project designed to help… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Partners Mobilize U.S.$ 1.2 Billion to Support Ghana's Cocoa Sector

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and other partners will sign on September 25, 2009, in Paris, a USD 1.2 billion pre-export facility to support the Cocoa Board of Ghana… Read more »

Africa: Staff of US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Visits AfDB Office in Ghana

Ms. Nilmini Rubin, a senior member of staff on the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee (which has oversight over the Multilateral Development Banks) recently visited Ghana as… Read more »

Africa: Presentation of the 2009 African Economic Outlook

Staff from the Development Research Department of the Chief Economist Complex (ECON) and the Ghana Field Office launched the 2009 African Economic Outlook (AEO) Friday 26 June… Read more »

Africa: Ghana-Presentation of the 2009 African Economic Outlook

Location: Bujumbura, Burundi Read more »

Africa: AfDB Organizes the Second Sub Regional Consultation Workshop in Accra, Ghana

The three-day workshop brought together almost 50 participants from West, Central, East and North Africa who made critical input to the draft Regional Report that will launched on… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Approves U.S.$ 64 Million for Three Major Road Projects in Ghana

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved supplementary loans of 43.10 million Units of Account (UA*), about US$ 64.13 million, to help finance the rehabilitation and… Read more »

Ghana: AfDB Approves U.S.$ 32 Million Loan for Ghana's Tema Power Project

The African Development Bank Group's Board of Governors on Tuesday 15 Oct. 2008 in Tunis, approved a US$ 32 million private sector loan to Tema Osonor Plant Limited, a special… Read more »

Ghana: AfDB Group Approves U.S. $141.3 Million Budget Support Loan to Ghana

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessionary window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has approved a loan of 90 million Units of… Read more »

Africa: President Kufuor Calls for Aid to End Aid Dependency

Ghanaian President, John Kufuor, has called on developing and developed countries to deploy and manage development assistance to enable poor countries exit from aid dependency. Read more »

Africa: Accra HLF Africa Region Preparatory Consultation Workshop, Kigali, Rwanda, 28-30 April 2008

The Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness will be held in Accra, Ghana, from 2-4 September 2008. The African Development is a lead sponsor of the Accra Forum which will… Read more »

Africa: Ghana, Tanzania and AfDB Sign U.S.$ 153 Million in Loans and Grants for Energy and Poverty Reduction

The Governments of Ghana and Tanzania this week signed loans and grants of a combined amount of US$ 98.8 million to finance energy projects, underscoring the African Development… Read more »

Africa: AfDB and Ghana Sign U.S.$ 63.81 Million Loan Agreement

The Africa Development Bank (AfDB) Group and Ghanaian government on Tuesday in Tunis signed a loan agreement of UA 40 million, equivalent to US$ 63.81 million, to finance the… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Participates in National Forum on Oil and Gas Development in Accra, Ghana

African Development Bank (AfDB) Group experts are participating in a two-day national forum on oil and gas in Accra, Ghana. The event, which runs from February 25-26, is part of… Read more »

Africa: Interview with AfDB Governance Director, Gabriel Negatu on the "Strategic Partnership with Africa (SPA)"-Third Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness Underway

"The African Development Bank is one of the leading institutions on the continent that provides budgetary support as well as balance of payment support to African… Read more »

Africa: Ghana - AfDB Approves U.S.$16 Million Private Sector Loan to Finance Kempinski Accra Hotel

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Wednesday in Tunis, a loan of US$ 16 million to finance the construction of Kempinski Accra Hotel in… Read more »

Ghana: AFDB's Country Office Head Begins Work

The newly appointed head of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group's Country Office in Ghana presented his official letter of introduction to Hon. the Deputy Minister of Foreign… Read more »

Africa: ADB Encourages Renewable Energy Development in Africa

Despite the vast potential of energy resources available in Africa, 92% of the rural population does not have access to modern energy services. Read more »

Africa: Communiqué of the Governors' Consultative Committee (GCC) of the African Development Bank

The Governors' Consultative Committee (GCC) of the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank held its fifth meeting during 17-18 February in Accra, Ghana under the… Read more »