News
10/02/2012 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved funding of USD 41 million to improve the employment prospects of graduates and students in Mali through training and skills development.
Categories: Malawi
08/02/2012 - Food security challenges in the horn of Africa, regional drought resilience building programme, climate change and green development, were among key issues discussed by experts in the African Development Bank’s Agriculture and Agro-industry Department (OSAN) during their recent meeting in Tunis.
Categories: Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production
08/02/2012 - La formation des cadres de la Banque aux questions liées au changement climatique, à l’agriculture et aux ressources naturelles est au cœur des activités du département des résultats et contrôle de la qualité de la Banque africaine de développement (ORQR). Avec l’appui du département du développement international (DFID) du Royaume Uni, ORQR a organisé un atelier sur la question à Tunis, du 26 au 27 janvier 2012.
Categories: Tunisia, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Climate Change
31/01/2012 - North African Lawyers have commended the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) and the Pan African Lawyers Union’s (PALU) recent capacity-building seminar, noting that “it opens new horizons for us.” The lawyers participated in the seminar which took place from January 24 to 26, 2012 in Tunis.
Categories: Tunisia, African Legal Support Facility, Finance
26/01/2012 - Thursday 26 January was the second day of a two-day capacity building seminar organised by the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) and the Pan-African Lawyers Union (PALU) in Tunis. Its aim was to familiarise North African lawyers with the African Development Bank’s different organs and activities and offer them a better understanding of the institution’s legal requirements in financing infrastructure projects.
Categories: Tunisia, African Legal Support Facility, Finance
24/01/2012 - AfDB President Donald Kaberuka hosted the annual new year lunch for ambassadors of AfDB member states at the Movenpick Hotel in Gammarth, Tunis on Monday 23 January.
Categories: Tunisia, President's Corner
24/01/2012 - The African Legal Services Facility (ALSF) and the Pan-African Lawyers Union (PALU) seminar on reinforcing capacity in international commercial disputes resolutions in the Northern Africa region opened today in Tunis. Opened by the African Development Bank’s Vice-President for Finance, Charles Boamah, on behalf of the President, the meeting is focusing on African Development Bank’s financial architecture as well as legal aspects of financing infrastructure projects from multilateral development banks’ perspective.
Categories: Tunisia, African Legal Support Facility
- From: 24/01/2012
- To: 26/01/2012
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
“The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) is committed to work with the Pan-African Lawyers’ Union (PALU) towards the creation of a better legal environment that creates an unquestionable stability necessary to attract national and foreign investments in Africa,” said ALSF’s CEO, Stephen Karangizi, as a prelude to a joint ALSF-PALU capacity building seminar that will be held from 24 to 26 January 2012, in Tunis.
Categories: Tunisia, African Legal Support Facility, Finance
19/01/2012 - African Development Bank (AfDB) Group president Donald Kaberuka, visited President Moncef Marzouki of Tunisia at the Carthage Palace on Thursday. The visit followed the one-year anniversary, on January 14, of the Tunisian revolution. Mr. Kaberuka congratulated the president, the Tunisian people and their elected leaders on the success of the country’s democratic transition process.
Categories: Tunisia, President's Corner
18/01/2012 - Last week, the African Development Bank successfully issued a USD1 billion, five-year bond. Order books totalled USD1.2 billion from 43 investors. Final distribution figures underscored AfDB's strong penetration across different regions. The order book was well diversified geographically. Asian investors came in as the largest buyers at 44 percent of the bond. European and American investors bought 18 percent, while African and Middle East investors bought 15 percent and 5 percent, respectively.
Categories: Finance
