Spotlight
24/04/2009 - Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009, in Washington, at the ongoing World Bank/IMF 2009 Spring Meetings, Mr. Kaberuka said that the world could not afford to ignore Africa with its huge population in global efforts to tackle the economic crisis.
04/03/2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group is organizing a “Partnership Forum”, on 5-6 March 2009 in Tunis. The meeting aims at informing AfDB partners of various cooperation opportunities with the Bank.
03/03/2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) celebrates the 2009 International Women’s Day, on the theme “Men and Women Together for Development”. The Bank strongly supports that for development to be sustainable and have a clear positive impact on people’s livelihoods, men and women need to work together. It is within this framework that the Bank is committed to assisting with the promotion of gender equality and women entrepreneurship mainstreaming in Africa.
27/02/2009 - TAV Tunisia signs long term foreign currency lending with international financial institutions. The project’s total cost is EUR 560 million, of which the African Development Bank will be funding EUR 70 million. The project consists of the construction, operation, and maintenance of the new Enfidha Zine El Abidine Ben Ali International Airport for an initial capacity of 7 million passengers, and the operation and maintenance of the existing Monastir Airport.
12/02/2009 - The AfDB Alternate Governor for France, Benoît Coeuré, was at the Bank Group’s Temporary Relocation Agency (TRA) on Thursday, February 13, 2009, in Tunis, Tunisia, at the invitation of Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, within the framework of efforts by the G20 to find solutions to the prevailing global economic and financial crises.