News & Events
09/11/2012 - The Presidents of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, and the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, have launched today “the most ambitious infrastructure project in Kenya’s history”: the Nairobi–Thika superhighway. This eight-lane ultra-modern superhighway stretching from the city of Nairobi all the way to the outskirts of Thika town some 50 kilometres away will deeply change the lives of millions of people.
Categories: Kenya, Transport, Infrastructure
09/11/2012 - The 50-km Nairobi–Thika superhighway, described by Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki as a source of “national pride” during its launch on November 9, covers an area that lies within the Nairobi Metropolitan and Central Province, including large sections of the City and Thika district. The road traverses Kasarani, Githurai, Ruiru, Juja and ends at Thika River Bridge in Thika district. The total population living along the road is approximately 1 million.
Categories: Kenya, Transport, Infrastructure
09/11/2012 - People living along the Nairobi–Thika Highway are breathing a sigh of relief following the completion of the new highway’s construction. Businesses are thriving and road-users are reaping the benefits of the ultra-modern superhighway.
Categories: Kenya, Transport, Infrastructure
09/11/2012 - The African Development Bank will once again participate and support, as it has every year since its inception, the 4th Annual Africa Public Private Partnership Conference (APPP) which takes place from November 14-16 in Abuja, Nigeria.
Categories: Nigeria, Private Sector Development, Infrastructure
09/11/2012 - The construction of the Turbi–Moyale road upgrading project, which is part of the third and last phase of the Mombasa–Nairobi–Addis Ababa Road Corridor Development project, was launched in Moyale, a town that straddles the borders of Kenya and Ethiopia, by Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Wednesday, November 7.
Categories: Kenya, Transport, Infrastructure
06/11/2012 - Africa needs to pay special attention to inclusive growth by creating youth employment, improving agricultural output and investing in quality education and infrastructure. In a well-attended public lecture delivered in Kampala, Uganda, the President said the continent’s demographics pointed to an explosion in the numbers of young people, though employment creation was not keeping pace. He lamented the fact that youth unemployment, at 20 percent last year, remains way above the global average of 10 percent.
Categories: Uganda, Youth, Human and Social Development, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Education, Infrastructure
02/11/2012 - African governments should use the proceeds from land leased to foreign investors to subsidize the cost to local farmers of modernizing their farming methods, or to build infrastructure and improve production.
Categories: Rwanda, Infrastructure, Economic & Financial Governance, Agriculture & Agro-industries
01/11/2012 - African leaders in the ongoing African Economic Conference are requested to invest selectively in policies that interest citizens in order to improve agriculture productivity. During a session titled “Agriculture, Markets and Development”, Melanie O’Gorman from the University of Winnipeg in Canada presented a paper arguing that despite the widespread diffusion of productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies theworld over, agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa has typically stagnated.
Categories: Rwanda, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Infrastructure
01/11/2012 - The agricultural and rural sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has significant growth margins and occupies a prominent place in the economy. However, the dilapidation of rural infrastructure and poor governmental support services is contributing to a significant decline in productivity.
Categories: Democratic Republic of Congo, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Infrastructure, Economic & Financial Governance
24/10/2012 - A supplementary Technical Cooperation Agreement of the Korea Africa Economic Cooperation (KOAFEC) Trust Fund was signed on October 16, 2012, between Jaewan Bahk, Minister of Strategy and Finance, Republic of Korea, and Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank Group, during the KOAFEC Ministerial Conference in Seoul, Korea.
Categories: Korea, Infrastructure, Information & Communication Technology, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Human and Social Development, Economic & Financial Governance
