News & Events

03/02/2011 - The African Development Bank needs to be relevant to all its Regional Member Countries (RMCs), and that includes fragile states. These are states in need of our expertise and support. We must continue to uphold the vision and boldness the Deputies had when they founded this initiative. We must use all available instruments to respond to the needs of these states, including public support .

Categories: Somalia, Fragile States Facility

27/01/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s Board of Directors approved on Wednesday, 26 January 2011, a USD 655,000 emergency relief assistance grant for Somalia.

Categories: Somalia, Health, Water Supply & Sanitation, Human and Social Development

24/11/2009 - After decades of interruption, Somalia re-established its relationship with the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Monday, 23 November 2009 with the signing of a USD 2 million grant to provide financial and technical assistance to Public Financial Management. The support to the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia comes from the Fragile States Facility (FSF) administrated by the Bank’s Fragile States Unit.

Categories: Somalia, Fragile States Facility, Economic & Financial Governance

23/09/2008 - Transparency International’s Advisory Committee Chair, Peter Eigen, rounded off a two-day visit to the AfDB on Tuesday in Tunis with a press conference where he launched TI’s 2008 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in which Denmark emerged as the country with the highest positive perception on good governance while Somalia bore the trail as the most corrupt of the 180-country index.

Categories: Tunisia, Denmark, Somalia