Press Releases
19/02/2013 - Pascal Canfin, Deputy Minister in charge of Development in France, signed on February 11, 2013, an agreement concerning the membership of France to the African Legal Support Facility of the African Development Bank. This agreement brings the number to 50 signatories. Thus, France becomes the fifth non-regional member country to join the ALSF after the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium and Brazil .
Categories: France, African Legal Support Facility
08/10/2012 - The President of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, took part in the meeting of Ministers of the franc zone on October 4 and 5 in Paris, alongside franc zone central bank governors and heads of regional institutions.
Categories: France, Partnerships
16/03/2012 - The governments of Chad, the Republic of Congo and France announced on 14 March that they would pledge some €45 million to support the African Development Bank’s Rural Water and Sanitation Initiative and the African Water Facility.
Categories: France, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
12/03/2012 - The African Development Bank, in collaboration with the African Union Commission, the African Ministers Council on Water, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the French government holding a conference on 14 March to discuss solutions and financing for boosting water security in Africa, within the context of the Sixth World Water Forum in Marseilles, France, which is taking place from 12 to 17 March 2012.
Categories: France, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
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
04/11/2011 - G20 leaders today welcomed the recommendations of the High-Level Panel for Infrastructure Development, endorsing the development of the Sokoni Africa Infrastructure Marketplace.
Categories: France, Infrastructure
16/09/2011 - The Deauville Partnership, set up at the G8 meeting in the French seaside town in May 2011 with the aim of supporting political and economic transformation in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Morocco, has welcomed five new members.
Categories: France, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Deauville Partnership
08/12/2010 - African Development Bank President, Donald Kaberuka, was on 7 December 2010, the US-European press club guest for a debate on "international relations and Africa’s economic and social development". The European American Press Club, based in Paris, was created in 11 April 2002, at the initiative of the French-American Chamber of Commerce.
Categories: France, United States of America
14/06/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) will on 14 June 2010 host the fourth Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI) Trust Fund Steering Committee Meeting. The meeting will review the 2009 progress of RWSSI; approve the 2010 Lending Programme/Budget; and agree on the way forward. The meeting will bring together representatives from France, Denmark, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, and the AfDB.
Categories: Tunisia, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Canada, Switzerland, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
14/05/2010 - « La France est un actionnaire fidèle et attentif du Groupe de la BAD… Elle salue la réussite du président Kaberuka, et lui renouvelle sa confiance», a déclaré M. Emmanuel Carrère, administrateur de la BAD pour la France, lors d’une entrevue, à quelques jours des Assemblées annuelles du Groupe de la BAD qui se dérouleront à Abidjan, du 27 au 29 mai 2010.
Categories: France
