News & Events
- From: 05/11/2009
- To: 06/11/2009
- Location: Bujumbura, Burundi
An important AfDB delegation, led by the institution’s President, Donald Kaberuka, will attend a round table conference on the implementation of the Pact on Security, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes region scheduled to take place in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, from 5- and 6 November, 2009.
Categories: Burundi, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Regional Integration, Fragile States Facility
25/09/2009 - The Board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved today an important financial package worth USD 190 million to link up Congo and Cameroon. This funding from the African Development Fund, the concessional window of the AfDB Group, comprises a grant of 61.9 million Units of Account (USD 97 million) and a loan of UA 59.27 millions (USD 93 million).
Categories: Congo, Cameroon, Infrastructure, Regional Integration
24/06/2009 - As part of the strategy to boost infrastructure development and regional economic integration in Africa, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group on Wednesday in Tunis, approved two loans amounting to US$ 181 million, (117.04 million Units of Account UA*) to Mozambique and Malawi to finance the construction of the first phase of the Nacala Road Corridor, which links the two countries and Zambia.
Categories: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Regional Integration, Transport
27/05/2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of Mozambique on Tuesday in Maputo concluded two days of negotiations on the terms of the first phase of the Nacala road corridor rehabilitation and construction project.
Categories: Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Regional Integration
27/02/2009 - African media experts, managers, and journalists from various state-run and private organizations along with communication practitioners from regional institutions, including the AUC, NEPAD Secretariat, UNECA, UNDPI, UNAIDS, OSAA and the AfDB, last Friday, February 20, 2009, in Johannesburg, called on each other to closely collaborate in efforts at delivering development information in Africa.
Categories: South Africa, Information & Communication Technology, Infrastructure, Regional Integration, NEPAD
05/08/2008 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the West African Monetary Institute (WAMI) on Monday, in Tunis, signed a grant agreement of 14 million Units of Account (UA*), equivalent to US$ 23 million, to finance the West African Monetary Zone Payment System Development project, which aims at creating a single currency in the sub-region by standardizing the payment systems in The Gambia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Categories: Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Regional Integration
26/06/2008 - Director of the World Bank’s Regional Integration Department said that AfDB and the World Bank share the conviction that regional integration is an important compliment to national programs of development and are committed to assist national clients to leverage effectiveness through exploiting regional solutions where these can provide economies, open new markets or help create important new regional public goods.
Categories: NEPAD, Regional Integration
26/06/2008 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, attended the 9th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) which took place from June 24-25, 2008, in Yaounde, Cameroon. The event was chaired by Cameroon’s President and current chairman of the sub-regional organization, Paul Biya.
Categories: Cameroon, Regional Integration, President's Corner
15/05/2008 - The Vice President in charge of Private Sector, Infrastructure and Regional Integration of the African Development Bank, Mandla S. Gantsho, and PTA Bank President, Michael Gondwe, signed on Thursday in Maputo, Mozambique, a line of credit of US$ 50 million and an Equity Capital increase of US$ 6.8 million payable as well as USD 40.8 million callable to support the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank, commonly known as the PTA Bank. In addition, a US$ 1 million grant for institutional capacity building of PTA Bank is being provided by the AfDB-managed Fund for African Private Sector Assistance (FAPA), a trust fund established by contributions from the Japanese government.
Categories: Private Sector Development, Regional Integration
24/04/2008 - The AfDB Vice President in charge of Infrastructure, Private Sector and Regional Integration, Mandla Gantsho, has expressed the AfDB Group’s support to the West and Central Africa Ports Management Association (AGEPAOC) on the sidelines of his visit to Cote d'Ivoire on Monday 21 April 2008.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Infrastructure, Private Sector Development, Regional Integration
