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Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank, will take part in an extraordinary meeting of the world’s richest nations this week to discuss the critical issue of food security in Africa.

Categories: United States of America, Food Production

The African Development Bank will be taking part in the 4th Africa Water Week, taking place from 16 to 18 May 2012 in Cairo. This year’s them is: “Water for growth in Africa, AMCOW’s Journey@10.” Sub-themes include “Private sector investment in water and sanitation”; “Infrastructure for Green Growth and Climate Resilience" and "Water Governance and Financing".

Categories: Egypt, Water Supply & Sanitation, Private Sector Development, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative

AfDB president, Donald Kaberuka, will co-chair the 2012 World Economic Forum on Africa, to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 9 to11 May. Ethiopia is the second most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa, and a prime example of the continent’s fast-growing economies.

Categories: Ethiopia, Financial Crisis

World Press Freedom Day is celebrated on 3 May. The 2012 World Press Freedom Day has more resonance in Tunisia, in the year after its revolution which gave the country press freedom, and sparked the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011.

Categories: Tunisia

A workshop on how to boost intra-African trade through cutting border formalities will take place between 25 and 27 April in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso. The One-Stop Border Post Regional Workshop is organised by the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), with financial and know-how support from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency.

Categories: Burkina Faso, Regional Integration

The Committee of Ten (C-10) of African finance ministers and central bank governors will hold its next meeting on 19 April, 2012, on the sidelines of the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. The African Development Bank president, Donald Kaberuka, will head his institution’s delegation and he will deliver a speech at the opening ceremony.

Categories: United States of America, Financial Crisis

The AfDB is Sponsoring a multi-stakeholder conference in Nairobi Kenya on the 18th and 19th of April 2012. Hosted by the Government of Kenya, in collaboration with Anadach Consulting Group and Tele-Health Society of Kenya, the conference will identify best practices and lessons learned from previous experiences of developing national eHealth strategies. One of the first of its kind in Africa, the event will also focus on integrating mHealth into eHealth strategy implementation.

Categories: Kenya, Health, Information & Communication Technology, Human and Social Development

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is co-organizing the 4th African Carbon Forum, where the latest developments and knowledge on the carbon market will be aired, on 18 to 20 April, at the UN Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Categories: Ethiopia, Climate Change, African Carbon Support Program, Environment

The African Development Bank (AfDB) partners with the Mandela Institute for Development Stories (Minds) to launch its dialogue series starting with the first one in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, on 17 to18 April 2012 at the Radisson Blu. The main topic of discussion will be "In a World and an Africa that is changing fast and fundamentally, how can Africa best prepare its leaders of tomorrow?’.

Categories: Ethiopia, Education, Human and Social Development

The first Africa forum on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) being held in Nairobi, Kenya on April 1-3. The forum is hosted the Kenyan government and organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), African Union (AU), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA).

Categories: Kenya, Education, Human and Social Development, Information & Communication Technology, Youth