Press Releases
03/04/2015 - The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has allocated a loan and a grant amounting to US$ 25.995 million dollars to finance a water project in Mahe in the Seychelles.
Categories: Seychelles, Water Supply & Sanitation
02/04/2015 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 in Abidjan, a €49.4-million loan to the Tunisian Electricity and Gas Corporation, la Société tunisienne d’électricité et du gaz (STEG).
Categories: Tunisia, Energy & Power
02/04/2015 - The African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Union Commission (AUC) and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), recently in Addis-Ababa, presented preliminary data on the continent’s Regional Integration Index to the 8th AU-ECA Conference of Ministers.
Categories: Partnerships, Regional Integration
01/04/2015 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 approved a US $123.77-million loan to the Republic of Angola to finance the country’s Institutional and Sustainability Support to Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Service Delivery Project.
Categories: Angola, Water Supply & Sanitation, Infrastructure
01/04/2015 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 a US $100-million unfunded Risk Participation Agreement (RPA) for FirstRand Bank Limited South Africa (FRB), under which the two banks will share the default risk on a portfolio of trade transactions originated by issuing banks in Africa and confirmed by FRB.
Categories: Economic & Financial Governance
31/03/2015 - Development institutions and power companies responded to a call made by the Union of the Comoros and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to attend a High-Level Consultation, which took place on March 25, 2015 at the AfDB’s headquarters in Abidjan. The meeting shed light on the crisis currently facing the energy sector in Comoros, and on potential solutions to these challenges.
Categories: Comoros, Energy & Power, Partnerships
30/03/2015 - The 18th Summit of Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Authority of Heads of State opened at the Africa Union Commission Headquarters on Monday, March 30, 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, chaired by President Joseph Kabila Kabange of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who is also outgoing Chairperson of the COMESA Authority.
Categories: Gender, Regional Integration
30/03/2015 - The eight candidates in the running for the election of the next President of the African Development Bank have submitted their vision statements for the Bank and the continent. The vision statements have been published on each candidate’s respective profile page on the African Development Bank website, AfDB.org, and may be accessed by clicking on the name of the candidate in the links provided below.
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27/03/2015 - One year ago, on March 23, 2014, an epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) was declared in West Africa. Beginning in Guinea, EVD quickly spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, taking the lives of over 10,000 people.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Health, Partnerships, Ebola
27/03/2015 - Unemployment was one of the main sources of popular discontent that led to the revolutions of 2010-2011 in Tunisia and Egypt. It played a role in the changes or rather, major upheavals, that subsequently took place in Jordan, Morocco, Libya and the Yemen as well.
Categories: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Employment, Youth, Partnerships
