Africa: Interview With Frannie Léautier, Executive Secretary, African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)

The African Development Bank celebrated 25 years of monitoring and evaluation work in early December. Frannie Léautier, current Executive Secretary of the African Capacity… Read more »

Africa: Liberia and Tanzania Scope Out Cif-Funded Renewable Energy Transformation Potential

In September, the Governments of Liberia and Tanzania opened their doors to officials of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and its implementing partners, including the AfDB, to… Read more »

Africa: AWF and NEPAD to Boost Economic Development in the Songwe River Basin

The African Water Facility (AWF), in collaboration with New Partnership for Africa's Development - Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPPF), hosted a meeting… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Annual Meetings will be held in Marrakech in 2013

Mr. Nizar Baraka, the Minister of Economy and Finance of the Kingdom of Morocco, and Ms. Cecilia Akintomide, Vice-President and Secretary General of the African Development Bank… Read more »

East Africa: NEPAD-IPP Facility and Indian Trust Fund Join Forces

The railways sector development project in the East African Community (EAC) region was at the center of discussions during the Bank's 2012 Annual Meetings in Arusha, Tanzania. Read more »

Africa: AfDB Provides Grant to Support Sierra Leone's Financial Sector Development Plan

The AfDB and Sierra Leone's government on June 1, 2012 in Arusha, signed a US$1.2-million grant financing agreement under Pillar III of the Fragile States Facility, to provide… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Annual Meetings End On Cautious Optimistic Note

The Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) closed on Friday in Arusha, Tanzania, on an optimistic note that Africa would be a winner in the uncertain emerging… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Supports Access to Finance for African SMEs With the Official Launch of the African Guarantee Fund

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, announced today, at the AfDB Annual General Meetings, the official launch of the African Guarantee Fund (AGF),… Read more »

Africa: AfDB's CSO Forum Closes With a Renewed Commitment to Partner for Development

A Forum for Civil Society organized during the African Development Bank's Annual Meetings in Arusha ended on Friday with the endorsement of three key areas of collaboration… Read more »

Africa: Tanzanian President Says Africa Is Set to Become World Economic Power

Africa is poised to become the world's new economic power house for the 21st century, provided it continues to embrace the sound economic policies that engendered the progress… Read more »

Africa: Moroccan Monarch Lauds AfDB's Long-Term Strategy

As Africa's premier development finance institution, the African Development Bank (AfDB) is faced with the double challenge to enhance its excellence while identifying relevant… Read more »

Africa: Africa Needs Political Will to Achieve Regional Integration and Economic Transformation

"Africa has potentials to develop trade and regional integration. Economies are not transformed. They are highly dominated by internal barriers. More importantly, there is lack of… Read more »

Africa: Participants At AfDB Seminar Underscore Need to Mobilise Domestic Resources for Africa's Transformation

Mobilisation of domestic and intra-African resources should be the way to go if the continent is resolute about putting its economic structural transformation into high gear and… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Records 36 Per Cent Increase in Loan and Grant Commitments

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group made approvals of almost USD 8.5 billion in 2011, which represented a 36-percent increase on 2010 approvals which totalled approximately… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Stresses Importance of Remittances and Microfinance for Financial Inclusion

The role played by remittances and microfinance in the empowerment of the less privileged in society came under scrutiny on 29 May in Arusha, Tanzania, during a high-level panel… Read more »

Africa: Emerging Economies Celebrate South-South Convergence

Emerging economies of South East Asia and African developing economies on Tuesday celebrated the convergence of South-South fruitful development initiative at the on-going African… Read more »

Africa: Credit Rating Can Help African Countries Access International Financial Markets

As the Governors of the African Development Bank Group meet in Arusha, Tanzania, from 31 May to 1 June 2012, the annual rating of AfDB by Standard and Poor's, Moody's and Fitch,… Read more »

Africa: AfDB On Course to Build African Class of Entrepreneurs

Though the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group hasn't allocated a specific amount for promoting the African private sector, it is determined to build a class of entrepreneurs… Read more »

Africa: 'Our Partnership With AfDB Is Relevant in Shaping the Continent's Needs to Emerge As a Viable Growth Pole,' ACBF Executive Secretary

What is the link between the Africa Capacity Building Foundation's activities and the theme of the 2012 Annual Meetings: Africa and the Emerging Global Landscape - challenges and… Read more »

Africa: Good Financial Governance, an Indicator of Democracy, Says Donald Kaberuka

Un gouvernement propre, qui travaille pour son peuple et oeuvre au bien-être de sa population, telles sont les trois critères qui, selon le président de la… Read more »

Africa: The AfDB Turns a Corner in Its Relations With Civil Society

The African Development Bank will be hosting a Forum for Civil Society engagement in conjunction with its 2012 Annual Meetings in Arusha, Tanzania. About 60 civil society… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Seminar Participants Concerned By Africa's Inability to Tackle Emerging Challenges

Africans need to recognise the legitimacy of self-interest and stop blaming everybody under the sun for the failure of their economies to be competitive with the rest of the world,… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Still Strongly Committed to General Capital Increase Pledges

Government representatives, heads and senior officials of financial and multilateral development banks (MDBs), civil society organizations, private sector and academics are meeting… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Top Business, Political and Academic Names to Flock to AfDB's Annual Meetings in Arusha

A dazzling array of Africa's most successful people, including a sitting president, a former president and a multibillionaire businessman, will gather at the Annual Meetings of the… Read more »

Africa: Akintomide and Ncube Host 2012 Annual Meetings Press Conference in Tunis

The AfDB vice-president/secretary general Cecilia Akintomide and vice-president/chief Economist Mthuli Ncube on Thursday 3 May 2012 jointly hosted a press conference on major… Read more »