News & Events

08/04/2009 - A two-day conference on the financing of North-South Corridor activities ended on April 7, 2009, in Lusaka, Zambia, with donors and development partners pledging some US$1.2 billion to fund the upgrading of road, rail, ports and energy infrastructure and to support the implementation of trade facilitation instruments.

Categories: Zambia, Energy & Power, Infrastructure

07/04/2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has pledged to invest US$600 million in the activities of the North-South corridor in the short-to-medium term. The announcement was made by the AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka, on April 6, 2009, during a keynote address at the Tripartite North-South Corridor Pilot Aid for Trade Programme Conference, held in Lusaka, Zambia.

Categories: Zambia, President's Corner

06/04/2009 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved emergency humanitarian assistance grants of US$ 500,000 each to Djibouti, Mozambique, Togo and Zambia, to enable the countries provide immediate relief to victims of recent natural disasters such as floods and drought.

Categories: Djibouti, Mozambique, Togo, Zambia

06/04/2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, who arrived in Zambia on April 4, 2009, to attend a two-day COMESA-EAC-SADC high-level consultative meeting on the North-South Corridor visited two copper mines in the northern copperbelt region of Zambia.

Categories: Zambia, Financial Crisis, President's Corner

06/04/2009 - AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka, attended in Lusaka, Zambia on April 6, 2009 a two-day high-level financing conference on the North-South Corridor.

Categories: Zambia, NEPAD, President's Corner

03/12/2008 - Zambia and the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group on Tuesday in Lusaka, signed a US$ 24 million Loan Agreement to finance the country’s Second Poverty Reduction Budget Support (PRBS) program, which aims at developing the private sector and improving public finance management.

Categories: Zambia, Poverty Reduction, Private Sector Development, Economic & Financial Governance

28/11/2008 - The African Development Fund (ADB Group) Board of Directors has approved a UA 35 million loan, equivalent to US$ 52 million, to Zambia to finance the Nkana Water Supply and Sanitation Project.

Categories: Zambia, Water Supply & Sanitation

19/11/2008 - The Bank Group and the Malawi Government on Wednesday, November 18, 2008, in Lilongwe signed loan and grant agreements totalling US$ 60.2 million equivalent to UA 43.31 million to finance some components and activities in the National Water Development Programme and the Local Economic Development Project during the next five years.

Categories: Zambia, Water Supply & Sanitation

24/09/2008 - The governments and businesses in five African Countries – Djibouti, Nigeria, Zambia, Mali and Malawi – will benefit from a combined multi-purpose funding of US$ 187 million approved by the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group today in Tunis.

Categories: Djibouti, Nigeria, Zambia, Mali, Malawi, Private Sector Development, Economic & Financial Governance

30/07/2008 - The President of the African Development Bank Group, Donald Kaberuka, begins a two-day official visit to Zambia from Thursday 31 July to 2 August 2008.

Categories: Zambia, Private Sector Development, President's Corner