Press Releases

05/12/2012 - Over 750,000 people from three Darfur states will have improved access to water supply and sanitation through a €3.3 million African Water Facility (AWF) grant. The project was recently launched during two separate ceremonies held on November 25 in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and on November 29 in El Fasher, North Darfur State capital.

Categories: Sudan, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Infrastructure

23/11/2012 - On Tuesday 20th November 2012, the AfDB signed a US$ 0.26 million protocol agreement with Mamaoun Beheiry Centre for Economic and Social Studies and Research (MBC), a policy think-tank in Khartoum named after the first President of the Bank. The grant was approved by the Nigeria Technical Cooperation Fund (NTCF). The agreement was then signed by the Bank’s Resident Representative for Sudan, Mr. Abdul B. Kamara, and the Director of MBC, Dr. Sayed Ali Zaki, at a special ceremony presided over by His Excellency Ali Mahmound Abdelrasoul, Minister of Finance and National Economy.

Categories: Sudan, Economic & Financial Governance

03/02/2012 - About 750,000 people in three Darfur states will have improved access to water supply and sanitation through a €3.3 million African Water Facility grant approved by the African Development Bank (AfDB) on 26 January 2012.

Categories: Sudan, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility

25/09/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of South Sudan today signed a general cooperation agreement that will make it possible for the AfDB to extend financial and technical support to South Sudan pending its full membership of the African Development Bank.

Categories: Sudan, United States of America, South Sudan, Partnerships

19/07/2011 - South Sudan became an independent country and Africa’s 54th sovereign nation on 9 July, 2011. The Government of South Sudan looks forward to welcoming the thousands of South Sudanese across Africa and the Diaspora who wish to return home. In its efforts to encourage the people of South Sudan to take ownership of the governance and development of this new nation, the government and its international partners are proactively addressing the ‘human capacity gaps’ in the civil service in both federal and local government agencies.

Categories: Sudan, South Sudan

13/07/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) shared in the history making event in Juba last Saturday, as South Sudan became Africa’s newest sovereign state.

Categories: Sudan

20/05/2011 - The Government of Southern Sudan has formally applied for membership in the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group. The territory’s finance and economic planning minister, David Deng Athorbei, urged the institution to expedite action on the membership process, building on the positive and ongoing role the Bank Group is playing in South Sudan.

Categories: Sudan, South Sudan

18/04/2011 - A third Sudan Roundtable, a forum launched by the World Bank to promote broad partnership in support of Sudan’s development, was held during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings. The event was co-chaired by the President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Donald Kaberuka, and the Vice President of the Africa Region of the World Bank, Ms. Obiageli Ezekwesili.

Categories: Sudan

08/09/2007 - On 8 September 2007, Mr. Famara Jatta presented his letter of appointment as Resident Representative of the African Development Bank Group in Sudan to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of National Unity in Sudan, His Excellency Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin.

Categories: Sudan