News & Events
16/05/2012 - The Boards of Directors of the African Development Bank Group today in Tunis approved the equivalent of USD 436 million for the financing of Morocco’s power project, and two other investments in Africa. The first approval is an AfDB loan of Euro 168 million and USD 100 million Clean Technology Fund concessionary loan to finance the first phase of the Ouarzazate solar power station in Morocco.
Categories: Morocco, Energy & Power, Board of Directors
15/05/2012 - The African Development Bank Group in North Africa – A Year of Transitions is the third annual report produced by the AfDB North region departments. As was the case in earlier editions, the report focuses on the underlying challenges the region faced prior to the Arab Spring. However, this edition probes the obstacles that led to the Arab Spring. It goes on to explore how political transitions underway will shape North Africa’s options in meeting its economic challenges.
Categories: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Youth
15/05/2012 - La BAD et l’office chérifien des phosphates (OCP) ont signé, le 10 mai 2012 à Casablanca, un accord de prêt de 250 millions de dollars dans le cadre du programme d’investissement de l’OCP. Ce prêt est le premier financement non-souverain que la BAD accorde à une entreprise marocaine. Il constitue un repère important dans la vision de la Banque en matière de promotion des entreprises africaines.
Categories: Morocco, Agriculture & Agro-industries
13/04/2012 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has embarked on a consultation exercise across Africa on its proposed Integrated Safeguards System (ISS). It is conferring with governments and representatives of civil society and the private sector.
Categories: Kenya, South Africa, Gabon, Nigeria, Morocco, Private Sector Development, Environment
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
04/01/2012 - The Migration and Development Fund’s oversight committee recently approved a series of grants amounting to € 1.4 million to six remittances funded local development projects across the African continent.
Categories: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Togo, Migration and Development Initiative
09/12/2011 - The agricultural sector in the Maghreb is using natural resources so intensively that there is an urgent need to install government control mechanisms at both the national and local level. The rapid growth in the use of ground water for irrigation has resulted in a major increase in agricultural productivity, but the practice is unsustainable because of the over-use of aquifers and salinisation of the water and soil.
Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Water Supply & Sanitation
01/12/2011 - The low absolute poverty rate in North African countries is often used to demonstrate the strengths of the economic models of these countries. However, measuring poverty at the level of the nation often masks important variations in regional poverty rates.
Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, Poverty Reduction
24/11/2011 - Le Conseil d’administration de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé à Tunis, le 23 novembre 2011, un prêt de 224 millions d’euros pour financer le programme d’appui au développement du secteur financier – phase II (PADESFI II) du Maroc.
Categories: Morocco, Economic & Financial Governance
