News & Events
03/04/2012 - La BAD a participé, les 30 et 31 mars, à la Cité des sciences de Tunis, au 2e Forum franco-tunisien de la société civile. Cette action s'inscrit dans la dynamisation du rapprochement de la BAD avec la société civile, dans la perspective d’une future stratégie en la matière.
21/03/2012 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) will host the Friends of Zimbabwe Roundtable, to discuss economic and political developments in the country on 23 March. The meeting will also focus on the prospects of dealing with the country's external debt arreears. The presentation of the Zimbabwe Accelerated Arrears, Debt and Development Strategy (ZAADDS) is a useful framework to address the issue of Zimbabwe’s external debt. ZAADDS is a key element of the government’s economic reform agenda.
Categories: Zimbabwe, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Japan, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, Economic & Financial Governance
16/03/2012 - The governments of Chad, the Republic of Congo and France announced on 14 March that they would pledge some €45 million to support the African Development Bank’s Rural Water and Sanitation Initiative and the African Water Facility.
Categories: France, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
14/03/2012 - The president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, will make the opening speech at a high-level event at the Sixth World Water Forum today, 14 March 2012, in Marseilles where a distinguished panel of experts will tackle the issues of water resource management and access to water and sanitation in Africa.
Categories: France, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, African Water Facility
12/03/2012 - The African Development Bank, in collaboration with the African Union Commission, the African Ministers Council on Water, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the French government holding a conference on 14 March to discuss solutions and financing for boosting water security in Africa, within the context of the Sixth World Water Forum in Marseilles, France, which is taking place from 12 to 17 March 2012.
Categories: France, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
21/02/2012 - France’s minister for cooperation, Henri de Raincourt, its secretary of state for foreign trade, Pierre Lellouche, represented by Delphine d’Amarzit, multilateral affairs and development manager at the general directorate for Treasury, and the vice president for sector operations from the African Development Bank (AfDB), Kamal Elkheshen, met in Paris on 21 February 2012, where more than 200 people gathered for a conference on money transfers to Africa from migrants
Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, France, Migration and Development Initiative
- Date: 21/02/2012 09:30 14:30
- Location: Paris, The Pierre-Mendès-France Conference Center Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry 139, rue de Bercy - Paris, 12th arrondissement
Remittances back home to North Africa and the franc zone from African migrants working abroad are worth tens of billions of euros every year. They are resilient to crisis and are a valuable spur to development in Africa. However, the costs of sending this money are far too high.
Categories: France, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Algeria, Migration and Development Initiative
- From: 12/03/2012
- To: 16/03/2012
- Location: Marseille, France
The African Development Bank, in collaboration with the African Union Commission, the African Ministers Council on Water, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the Government of France are holding a high level conference on March 14 to discuss solutions and financing for strengthening water security in Africa, within the context of the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille, 12-17 March, 2012.
Categories: France, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, Water Supply & Sanitation
25/11/2011 - Africa’s development agenda will remain a high priority, even as Mexico takes over the chair of the Group of Twenty (G20) finance ministers and central bank governors from France from 1 December 2011. Speaking to the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Tunis on 23 November, Rémy Rioux of the French Ministry of Economy Finance and Industry, and the Vice Sherpa of France in the G20 Development Working Group, told the executive directors that G20 discussions, consultations and the action plan for global economic stability will “advance Africa’s development priorities, especially on the infrastructure side.”
Categories: Mexico, France, Tunisia, Infrastructure, Financial Crisis, Board of Directors
- From: 02/11/2011
- To: 04/11/2011
- Location: Cannes, France
G20 leaders today welcomed the recommendations of the High-Level Panel for Infrastructure Development, endorsing the development of the Sokoni Africa Infrastructure Marketplace.
Categories: France, Infrastructure, President's Corner
