News & Events
10/05/2009 - African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, arrived in Dakar, Senegal, on Saturday, May 9, 2009, where he is expected to attend the AfDB 2009 Annual Meetings. He told the media that he was congratulating the people and government of Senegal for “the invitation and quality of reception” they had offered to participants of the 2009 Annual Meetings. He paid tribute to Senegalese President, Abdoulaye Wade, “a great African who has done a lot for the continent.”He also said he was also coming to take advice from the Senegalese leader.
Categories: Senegal, President's Corner
10/05/2009 - This is the first review on sustainability of AfDB private sector operations, made public during the 2009 Annual Meetings.
Categories: Senegal, Private Sector Development
10/05/2009 - Participants to the 2009 Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group have begun to converge on Dakar, Senegal, for the 13-14 May gathering scheduled to hold on the theme: “Africa and the Financial Crisis: An Agenda for Action".
Categories: Senegal, President's Corner
07/05/2009 - The 2009 edition of the African Economic Outlook (AEO) is to be launched on 10 May at the Méridien Président Hotel in Dakar, Sénégal as part of the programme of seminars and workshops preceding the Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the African Development Bank Group.
Categories: Senegal
05/05/2009 - On April 30, African Development Bank Vice President Zeinab El-Bakri announced “Our Annual meetings … this year are officially carbon neutral.” The Dakar meeting has been certified carbon neutral by Atmosfair. This NGO is a pioneer in the process of carbon offsets and uses the rigorous CDM Gold Standards, a best practice methodology and high quality carbon credit label for both Kyoto and voluntary markets.
Categories: Senegal, Environment
29/04/2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has officially made this year’s Annual Meetings Carbon friendly, following the acquisition of carbon credits worth € 85,400 to offset CO2 emissions due to the meetings scheduled to take place from 13-14 May in Dakar, Senegal.
Categories: Senegal, Environment
23/04/2009 - Une revue du portefeuille du Sénégal s’est achevée par la signature d’un Aide mémoire entre M. Franck Perrault, Directeur à la BAD et M. Abdoulaye Diop, Ministre d’Etat, Ministre de l’Economie et des Finances du Sénégal. La revue de portefeuille a été organisée pendant la période du 6 au 23 avril 2009.
Categories: Senegal
18/02/2009 - In its 18 February 2009 meeting, the AfDB Board of Directors approved a US$ 30 million line of credit and US$ 7.5 million equity investment in Shelter-Afrique.
18/02/2009 - Nearly one million people will directly benefit from a rural drinking water and sanitation program initiated by the Senegalese government with the help of a loan of 30 million Units of Account (UA*), equivalent to US$ 44.76 million, approved on Wednesday in Tunis, by the Executive Directors of the African Development Fund, the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group.
Categories: Senegal, Water Supply & Sanitation
23/12/2008 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and Senegal on Monday, December 22, 2008, in Tunis signed a loan agreement worth UA 30 million, equivalent to CFAF 23 billion, to support a poverty reduction strategy programme in the country which had been approved on the same day by the AfDB Board of Directors.
Categories: Senegal, Poverty Reduction
