News & Events
19/11/2009 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the AfDB Group approved in Tunis on Tuesday, 17 November 2009, combined loans and grants worth USD 8.15 million to finance a multinational Railway Project Study in Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.
06/11/2009 - The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) ended on Friday, November 6, 2009, in Bujumbura, Burundi. The closing ceremony was presided over by the Burundian President, Pierre Nkurunziza, and Zambian President, Rupiah Banda, who is also the ICGLR’s current chairperson. Speaking during the conference, Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, reaffirmed his institution’s support to the Great Lakes region, recalling that the Bank Group was a co-organizer of the roundtable.
Categories: Burundi, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Regional Integration, Fragile States Facility
05/11/2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, has reaffirmed AfDB support to the Great Lakes Region and the region’s eleven countries at the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) taking place in Bujumbura, Burundi, where the AfDB is attending as a member of the conference and a bilateral partner.
Categories: Burundi, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Sudan, Zambia, Regional Integration, Fragile States Facility, President's Corner
- 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
18/03/2009 - A donor round-table on the Tanzania-Rwanda-Burundi railway project that started on Monday, March 16, 2009, ended on Tuesday in Tunis, Tunisia, on a positive note as the project was found “technically and financially viable.”
Categories: Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, President's Corner
18/03/2009 - A round-table on the Tanzania-Rwanda-Burundi Railway project that started on Monday, March 16, 2009, continued on Tuesday in Tunis with deliberations split in three sessions. The first session was devoted to communication and the exchange of views. Discussions during the session focused on the presentation of financial reports, financing options and achievements.
Categories: Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, President's Corner
17/03/2009 - Du lundi 16 au mardi 17 mars 2009 se tiendront à Tunis les travaux de la Table ronde sur le projet multinational ferroviaire Tanzanie-Rwanda-Burundi.
27/11/2008 - A new loan to reduce poverty through more transparency and accountability in the management of public funds was signed on Wednesday, 26 November 2008, in Dar es Salaam, between the Tanzanian government and the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group.
Categories: Tanzania, Economic & Financial Governance, Poverty Reduction
05/09/2008 - The Bank Group, USAID and CRDB Bank on Thursday, September 4, 2008, launched a historical partnership in Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania, to finance private sector participation in agriculture, using a US$10 million partial credit guarantee facility that was recently approved by the AfDB board of directors for Cooperative and Rural Development Bank (CRDB).
Categories: Tanzania, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Private Sector Development
07/03/2008 - The Governments of Ghana and Tanzania this week signed loans and grants of a combined amount of US$ 98.8 million to finance energy projects, underscoring the African Development Bank Group’s renewed emphasis on infrastructure development and poverty reduction in its Regional Member Countries (RMCs).
Categories: Ghana, Tanzania, Energy & Power, Poverty Reduction
