News & Events
01/04/2013 - At their meeting in Durban, the BRICS group put forward the proposal establishing a Development Bank under their auspices. This initiative was hailed by Donald Kaberuka, President of the AfDB. A grand premiere in Africa, this decision was taken at the meeting held on the 26 and 27 March 2013. The continent welcomed the annual meeting of the BRICS group held in Durban made up of Brazil, India, China, Russia and South Africa joining these countries in April 2011.
Categories: South Africa, Russia, Brazil, India, China, Economic & Financial Governance
26/03/2013 - The new world order comes to Durban this week – for the fifth BRICS Summit, and the first in Africa. Dilma Rousseff, Vladimir Putin, Manmohan Singh, Xi Jinping and Jacob Zuma represent a changing world, as gravity and power gradually shift from North to South, and West to East. Between them, they preside over nearly half of the world’s population, and nearly a quarter of its GDP.
Categories: South Africa, China, Brazil, India, Russia, Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), Infrastructure
22/03/2013 - We invest billions of dollars to find evidence of water and life on Mars, but here on Earth, we struggle to mobilize the funds needed to develop the full potential of the water resources we depend on for life and growth. Is the glass half full, or half empty, on World Water Day today?
Categories: Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
07/03/2013 - African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka says development is not something to do once the other problems have been solved because it is part of the solution to today’s economic woes.
Categories: Netherlands
04/03/2013 - Within the framework of his official visit to Togo, African Development Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, accompanied by his close advisers, was received on Friday, March 1, 2013 in Lomé by the country’s President, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé.
Categories: Togo
01/03/2013 - Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), met on February 25 in Washington, DC, the heads of the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank. The goal of the meeting: to renew the commitment to further cooperation between the multilateral development banks (MDBs).
Categories: United States of America, Economic & Financial Governance
01/03/2013 - The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, was received on Thursday, February 28 in Yamoussoukro by Alassane Ouattara, President of Côte D’Ivoire. The meeting took place alongside the 42th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), one day after the AfDB Board of Directors held its meeting in Abidjan.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Regional Integration
28/02/2013 - The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, is on mission to Togo from March 1-3, 2013, where he will inaugurate the Bank’s new country office in Lomé, the Togolese capital, accompanied by a delegation comprising Senior Management.
Categories: Togo
28/02/2013 - The African Development Bank Group, on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, held the first meeting of its Board of Directors in Abidjan since the Bank’s relocation to Tunisia in 2003, signalling the first steps of the Bank’s return to Côte d’Ivoire, AfDB President Donald Kaberuka said at the meeting’s opening.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria
28/02/2013 - Leaders of the African Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group have pledged close collaboration to support development.
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