News & Events
05/12/2011 - Climate change affects agriculture in Africa more than in the rest of the world and that can cause hunger in various countries there. But it is possible for governments to fight the problem, delegates at the climate change conference, COP 17, in Durban heard.
Categories: South Africa, Mali, Climate Change, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production
23/11/2011 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved on 16 November a €5 million equity investment in a private equity fund which will invest in key sectors with regional expansion potential in French-speaking West Africa.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Information & Communication Technology, Infrastructure, Private Sector Development
23/11/2011 - Mali’s USD 40 million investment plan to scale up renewable energy was approved in principle by the Climate Investment Fund (CIF) governing bodies during their annual meetings from 31 October to 4 November 2011 in Washington, D.C. As an implementing agent of the CIF, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has worked closely with Mali to develop the plan under the CIF’s Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program in Low Income Countries (SREP).
Categories: Mali, Climate Change, Energy & Power, Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
31/10/2011 - In its continued efforts to promote economic growth and reduce poverty in Mali, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a general budget support loan of USD 53 million for the west African country.
Categories: Mali, Poverty Reduction
24/10/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved funds totaling USD 124.3 million for ground-breaking ‘Centers of Excellence’ in higher education in Mali, Uganda and Rwanda.
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)
09/09/2011 - On 7 September, the African Development Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a USD 22.5m African Development Fund loan to the Republic of Mali to finance a major digital complex in the capital, Bamako. “This project is important for my country and the first of its kind in West Africa. With the Bamako Digital Complex, before December 2011, Mali will be connected through fiber optic to six out of its seven neighbors.
Categories: Mali, Information & Communication Technology, Human and Social Development
07/07/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) approved, during its regular session held on 6 July 2011, four development projects totaling USD 157 million.
Categories: Chad, Mali, Senegal, Uganda, Health, Infrastructure
08/12/2010 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Monday, 6 December 2010 in Tunis, a € 30-million senior private sector loan and a €35 million loan from the public sector window to finance the Markala Sugar project (MSP) in Mali. The two loans amount to €65 million, equivalent to CFAF 42.5 billion.
Categories: Mali, Private Sector Development
28/09/2010 - Le conseil d’administration du Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé, lundi 27 septembre 2010, un prêt de 12 millions d’unités de compte* (équivalent à 9, 367 milliards FCFA ou 18 millions de dollars américains) au Mali, pour financer un projet d’élargissement de la route : Carrefour de la paix-Pont Woyowayanko-Point Y, à Bamako.
Categories: Mali, Infrastructure
