News & Events

28/09/2012 - The AfDB’s Malawi Field Office (MWFO) disseminated the Bank’s Regional Integration Strategy Paper for Southern Africa at a workshop jointly organized with the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Lilongwe, Malawi on September 21, 2012.

Categories: Malawi, Regional Integration

20/09/2012 - A high-level delegation from the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) visited the African Development Bank Group on September 18 in Tunis to share industry knowledge and lessons learned that may help revolutionize aviation in Africa.

Categories: Brazil, Transport, Regional Integration

01/09/2012 - The potential to grow intra-African trade is significant and, while it has more than doubled over the past five years, it remains a disappointing figure, Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank, told the annual Conference of Speakers of African Parliaments in Johannesburg on Thursday.

Categories: South Africa, Regional Integration

07/08/2012 - "Unlocking North Africa’s potential through regional integration" is the title of a new report published by the African Development Bank (AfDB), which examines the key issues and challenges facing regional integration in the North African countries across a number of thematic areas, including: (i) energy; (ii) climate change and environment; (iii) financial sector; (iv) trade facilitation and transport; (v) human development; and (vi) information and communication technology.

Categories: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Regional Integration

24/07/2012 - “African countries can benefit immensely from well-regulated derivatives commodity exchanges – which in turn could provide a useful tool for Africa’s development,” said Moono Mupotola, manager in charge of Regional integration and trade at the African Development Bank (AfDB), ahead of the Bank-sponsored Pan-African Workshop for Regulators of Derivatives and Commodity Exchanges to be held in Gaborone, Botswana, from 25-27 July 2012.

Categories: Botswana, Regional Integration

30/05/2012 - Accelerated regional integration can generate greater benefits including job creation given the high unemployment levels and the youthful demographic profile of the East African region, experts have said.

Categories: Tanzania, Regional Integration, Youth, Human and Social Development

03/05/2012 - In the wake of the Arab Spring, the emerging political landscape in North Africa promises to give new impetus to regional integration efforts, according to a new study from the African Development Bank (AfDB). The report - entitled, Unlocking North Africa's potential through Regional Integration - reviews the prospects for the region as new democratically-elected governments seek to promote inclusive growth and build institutions for good governance. The diversity of resource endowments in the region, coupled with the existing physical infrastructure, represent an important opportunity to further development through integration.

Categories: Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Regional Integration

06/04/2012 - The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and YES BANK Limited, India, held a joint Indo-African Knowledge Exchange Workshop on “Regulation of Cross-Border Mobile Payments and Regional Financial Integration” at the Hotel Trident, Mumbai on 29 and 30 March 2012.

Categories: India, Information & Communication Technology, Regional Integration

28/03/2012 - Africa’s numerous border and customs posts, with the associated bureaucracy and long delays, continues to hold back trade and economic growth on the continent, reports a new study from the African Development Bank (AfDB).

Categories: Economic & Financial Governance, Regional Integration