News & Events
18/05/2012 - African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka joined U.S. President Barack Obama, several African heads of state and leaders from the public and private sector in Washington on Friday for the launch of a new initiative that aims to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth.
Categories: United States of America, Food Production, Poverty Reduction, President's Corner
- From: 18/05/2012
- To: 19/05/2012
- Location: Camp David, Maryland
Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank, will take part in an extraordinary meeting of the world’s richest nations this week to discuss the critical issue of food security in Africa.
Categories: United States of America, Food Production
18/04/2012 - The African Development Bank Group’s (AfDB) delegation led by its President, Donald Kaberuka, is attending this year’s World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings taking place in Washington DC.
Categories: United States of America, Financial Crisis, President's Corner
- Date: 19/04/2012
- Location: Washington DC
The Committee of Ten (C-10) of African finance ministers and central bank governors will hold its next meeting on 19 April, 2012, on the sidelines of the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. The African Development Bank president, Donald Kaberuka, will head his institution’s delegation and he will deliver a speech at the opening ceremony.
Categories: United States of America, Financial Crisis, President's Corner
19/03/2012 - African negotiators to the forthcoming Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, to be held in June, gathered in New York last week for a training session on negotiation techniques. The African Development Bank (AfDB) supports six of the negotiators from its African member states.
Categories: United States of America, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
- Date: 15/03/2012
- Location: New York City
African Development Bank (AfDB) experts will, join partners on 15 March 2012 in New York City, to provide a training session for African negotiators in support of preparations for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) and to ensure Africa “speaks with one voice.”
Categories: United States of America, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
26/09/2011 - Eskom and the African Development Bank (AfDB) today signed two loan agreements for a total value of USD365 million that will enable the first large-scale implementation of renewable wind and solar generation in Eskom’s history.
Categories: United States of America, South Africa, Energy & Power, Climate Change, Private Sector Development, President's Corner
25/09/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of South Sudan today signed a general cooperation agreement that will make it possible for the AfDB to extend financial and technical support to South Sudan pending its full membership of the African Development Bank.
Categories: Sudan, United States of America, Partnerships, President's Corner
25/09/2011 - The World Bank and the African Development Bank co-chaired a roundtable today where they reaffirmed their commitment with other international partners to support Côte d’Ivoire’s post-crisis reconstruction and reconciliation program. The roundtable, held on the sidelines of the 2011 World Bank/International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings, was aimed at bringing together key development partners and representatives of Côte d’Ivoire to follow up on the first roundtable that took place in April during the 2011 Spring Meetings.
Categories: United States of America, Côte d’Ivoire, President's Corner
30/07/2011 - The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Donald Kaberuka, has called for concrete action to mitigate the dire impacts of the drought and famine in the horn of Africa.
Categories: Somalia, United States of America, Food Production, President's Corner
