Actualités

08/02/2012 - “Enormous resource requirements are needed by Sub-Saharan Africa’s agriculture sector… The African Development Bank needs to continue to closely partner with others to effectively and sustainably build capacities within Horn of Africa countries,” - Kanu.

Catégories: Tunisie, Somalie, Kenya, Éthiopie, Djibouti, Agriculture et agro-industries, Production alimentaire

08/02/2012 - Food security challenges in the horn of Africa, regional drought resilience building programme, climate change and green development, were among key issues discussed by experts in the African Development Bank’s Agriculture and Agro-industry Department (OSAN) during their recent meeting in Tunis.

Catégories: Somalie, Kenya, Éthiopie, Djibouti, Agriculture et agro-industries, Production alimentaire

16/12/2011 - Menengai geothermal steam field development project will set the stage for investments that will help meet Kenya’s rapidly increasing demand for power and transform the country into a competitive clean energy economy. On 14 December 2011 in Tunis African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Board of Directors, approved two financing vehicles to support the project. It will be financed through a loan of USD 124 million from African Development Fund (ADF) concessionary resources, and a loan and grant totaling USD 25 million from the scaling-up renewable energy program under the Climate investment funds for which AfDB Group is an implementing agency.

Catégories: Kenya, Energie

09/12/2011 - Le Conseil d’administration de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé, le 7 décembre 2011, un prêt privilégié de 28,1 millions d’euros pour soutenir le projet de centrale thermique de Thika, au Kenya. Ce projet d’énergie fiable du secteur privé encouragera la croissance économique en prenant en charge la question du déficit énergétique au Kenya.

Catégories: Kenya, Energie, Développement du secteur privé

07/12/2011 - Africa as a continent suffers a huge lack of power. Most people in sub-Saharan Africa have little or no access to affordable, easily-available electricity. Even a developed country like South Africa is plagued by power cuts.

Catégories: Afrique du Sud, Kenya, Madagascar, Changement climatique, Energie

25/11/2011 - Successful implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and National Development Plans (NDPs) depends on effective resource mobilisation and utilisation.

Catégories: Burundi, Comores, Djibouti, Érythrée, Éthiopie, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalie, Soudan, Tanzanie, Ouganda, Réduction de la pauvreté

23/11/2011 - An Ethiopia-Kenya hydropower interconnection project may be the first to benefit from work beginning conducted by the African Development Bank (AfDB), through the African Carbon Support Programme (ACSP), to develop a new Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) methodology that would make interstate electricity connection eligible for CDM revenue.

Catégories: Kenya, Éthiopie, Energie, Infrastructures, Changement climatique, Fonds d'investissements climatiques, Programme d’appui au financement carbone en Afrique

23/11/2011 - A project to develop a geothermal steam field at Menengai, Kenya got the go-ahead on 17 November 2011 from the governing body of the Scaling Up of Renewable Energy Program in Low Income Countries (SREP), a program coming under the Climate Investment Fund (CIF). It approved USD 25 million in grants and concessional loans which will be channeled through the African Development Bank (AfDB) along with the AfDB’s own co-financing of USD 80 million.

Catégories: Kenya, Energie, Fonds d'investissements climatiques, Changement climatique

07/10/2011 - Un forum de haut niveau s’est tenu à Nairobi, au Kenya, les 5 et 6 octobre 2011, sur Les investissements directs étrangers dans le foncier en Afrique. Les participants ont décidé de promouvoir des modèles d'investissements fonciers qui augmentent la productivité agricole et maximisent les débouchés pour les agriculteurs africains.

Catégories: Kenya, Gouvernance économique et financière