News & Events

26/01/2012 - African Development Bank (AfDB) President Donald Kaberuka met today with Luciano Coutinho, President of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES). The meeting took place in Davos, Switzerland during the ongoing World Economic Forum.

Categories: Brazil, Switzerland

07/12/2011 - Cutting the price of energy is one way to fight poverty, the delegates at the climate change conference, or COP 17, heard in Durban.

Categories: South Africa, Brazil, Climate Change, Energy & Power, Environment

28/09/2011 - The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) held its fourth special session in Bamako, Mali on 15-16 September 2011 to discuss and consolidate the common African negotiating position on a comprehensive climate change regime beyond 2012. They also worked to prepare for the Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference to take place in June 2012. The African Development Bank (AfDB) consulted on its draft report on the Africa Green Fund as mandated by the African Union Summit of July 2011.

Categories: South Africa, Brazil, Mali, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Environment

09/06/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group on Wednesday in Lisbon signed two major cooperation agreements with China and Brazil for the funding of projects and programs in the AfDB´s regional member countries (RMCs).

Categories: Brazil, China

11/05/2011 - The Report, titled, “The BRICs in North Africa: Changing the Name of the Game?” says the group, which comprised Brazil, Russia, India and China during the time covered by the report (South Africa joined in 2011) is drawn to the region due to a growing need for raw materials and minerals; an amenable investment and regulatory climate; its relatively large population and overall GDP; low production and labour costs, and geographical proximity to European and Middle East markets.

Categories: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Brazil, India, China, Regional Integration

09/03/2011 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Wednesday, 9 March 2011 in Tunis, a USD 6-million untied grant with the Federative Republic of Brazil, to promote South-South Cooperation between African countries. The Fund will be managed by the Bank’s Partnerships and Cooperation Unit.

Categories: Brazil, Partnerships

03/09/2009 - With the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group our discussion focused on how to deepen Brazil’s cooperation ties with Africa, using the institutions available to us such as our Development Bank (BNDS), our Agricultural Research Institute and the AfDB on the African side. We discussed different possibilities, even a memorandum of understanding between Brazil’s National Development Bank and the AfDB. I invited the AfDB President to visit Brazil.

Categories: Brazil