May 29, 2014
Senegal: AfDB Approves Road Rehabilitation Project for Kaolack Groundnut Basin Region in Senegal
The Board of Executive Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) approved on 28 May, 2014 a Transport Sector Support Project for Senegal for the amount of UA 23.77… Read more »
May 21, 2014
Africa: MapAfrica - African Development Bank Looks to Institutionalize Geocoding
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, the African Development Bank (AfDB) released MapAfrica - a dynamic online platform that will enable citizens, government officials, and donors to track… Read more »
Africa: Africa Must Accelerate Integration to Promote Trade and Industrialization
African countries should accelerate integration to promote trade and industrialization by changing mindsets, participants at a meeting on trade said on Tuesday, May 20 in Kigali. Read more »
May 08, 2014
Tunisia: Tunisia - Rethinking the Industrial Policy for a Balanced Territorial Development
In its latest economic note, the African Development Bank (AfDB)'s Department for North Africa assessed the impact of new developments in Tunisia's industrial policy to see how… Read more »
March 06, 2014
Kenya: AfDB Prioritizes Jobs Creation and Infrastructure Development in Kenya Country Strategy Paper
The Board of the Africa Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 approved the Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for Kenya, which articulates the Bank's priority areas… Read more »
February 26, 2014
South Africa: AfDB Officially Unveils Its Africa Information Highway Platform in South Africa
Africa's first "one-stop" data centre, the Africa Information Highway, was officially launched on Monday, February 24 in Pretoria, South Africa, by the African Development Bank. Read more »
February 12, 2014
Africa: AfDB Rebuilds Flooded Schools in White and Blue Nile States in Sudan
On February 10, 2014, the African Development Bank's Resident Representative in Sudan, Abdul Kamara, led a mission to White Nile State to supervise the Emergency Assistance that is… Read more »
January 29, 2014
Africa: AfDB and AUC Sign Grant to Enhance the Capacity of African Countries to Accelerate the Delivery of Regional Infrastructure Projects
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Union Commission (AUC) on Wednesday, January 29 in Addis Ababa signed a new project grant. Read more »
January 24, 2014
Africa: AfDB Focuses on Fragility, Infrastructure Development, Women and Youth at 22nd AU Summit
Infrastructure development and financing, gender, youth and fragile states are at the top of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) agenda during the 22nd Annual African Union… Read more »
January 29, 2014
Kenya: AfDB and Kenya Sign Agreements for Financing Infrastructure Projects
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the government of Kenya on January 27th in Nairobi, Kenya signed loan and protocol grant agreements of US$97 million and US$120 million for… Read more »
December 19, 2013
Africa: AfDB Approves U.S.$ 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 »
December 18, 2013
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 »
December 13, 2013
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 »
December 11, 2013
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 »
Congo-Kinshasa: AfDB Board Approves $105.26 Million for Lovua-Tshikapa Section of the Batshamba-Tshikapa Road Project in DRC
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group approved on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 in Tunis, two grants and a loan amounting to US $105.26 million (UA 70.14… Read more »
December 04, 2013
Africa: AfDB Provides U.S. $73.6 million to Malawi and Zambia for Multinational Nacala Road Corridor Phase IV
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessionary arm of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, approved on Tuesday, December 3 a loan of US $65.0… Read more »
Africa: AfDB Board Approves U.S.$73.64 Million for Nacala Road Project
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group on Tuesday, December 3, approved US $73.64 million for Phase IV of the Nacala Road Corridor Development Project in… Read more »
November 28, 2013
Congo-Kinshasa: Board Approves Socio-Economic Infrastructure Reinforcement Project in DRC
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) met in Tunis on Wednesday, November 27, 2013 in Tunis, and approved US $161.92 million to finance the… Read more »
November 11, 2013
Namibia: AfDB and Namibia Sign ZAR 2.9 Billion Loan agreement
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and Namibia on Friday, November 8, 2013 signed a ZAR 2.9 billion (US $338 million) sovereign guaranteed loan to Nambia Ports Authority… Read more »
November 07, 2013
Cameroon: Enugu-Bamenda Road, Tool of regional Integration and an AfDB Success Story
Barely six years after Nigeria and Cameroon signed a Memorandum of Understanding that was to put their socio-political differences behind them, the Enugu-Bamenda Road Project… Read more »
West Africa: AfDB Invests U.S. $20 Million in Arm-Harith Infrastructure Fund
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Wednesday, October 30 a US $20 million equity investment in ARM-Harith Infrastructure Fund (ARMHIF).… Read more »
October 30, 2013
Africa: Industrialization a Precondition for Africa's Economic Transformation
Africa will have to step up investment in industrialization and trade facilitation to ensure that the current growth momentum is more resilient to external shocks and translates… Read more »
Africa: Regional Integration, the Solution for Boosting Industrial Production in Africa
Regional integration remains one of the solutions for boosting production by the manufacturing industry in Africa. Read more »
Africa: Infrastructure Gap, Non-Tariff Barriers Impediments to Regional Trade in Africa
A group of researchers on Tuesday, October 29 at the ongoing Africa Economic Conference in Johannesburg reaffirmed the need to step up investment in physical infrastructure and… Read more »
October 28, 2013
Africa: The Africa Information Highway Initiative - How Information Facilitates GDP Growth
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is a major developmental partner in Africa that uses information to quantify annual progress and target its policies. Its Africa Information… Read more »