23-Dec-2008 - Tunis, December 22, 2008 -The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and Senegal on Monday, December 22, 2008, in Tunis signed a loan agreement worth UA 30 million, equivalent to CFAF 23 billion, to support a poverty reduction strategy programme in the country which had been approved on the same day by the AfDB Board of Directors.
23-Dec-2008 - Tunis, December 22, 2008 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group on Monday, December 22, in Tunis, approved an ADB loan of US$ 450 million, to finance a thermal power project in Egypt.
22-Dec-2008 - Tunis, le 22 décembre 2008 - Le Conseil d’administration du Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé un prêt d’appui budgétaire de 5 millions d’unités de compte (UC*), soit 7,44 millions de dollars en faveur du Gouvernement du Cap-Vert, pour financer le programme d’appui à la stratégie de réduction de la pauvreté II.
22-Dec-2008 - Tunis, 22 December 2008 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a grant of UA* 12 million, equivalent to US$ 17.86 million, for Liberia to finance the Public Financial Management Reform Support Programme (PFMRSP) I. The programme’s UA 9 million financing from the Fragile States Facility (FSF) is enhanced by a UA 3 million grant in the form of an allocation from the Surplus Account of the AfDB to the African Food Crisis Response (AFCR).
19-Dec-2008 - Tunis, December 18th, 2008 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a Unit of Account (UA)* 110 million African Development Fund (ADF) grant, equivalent to US$ 163.6 million, to finance the Protection of Basic Services II (PBS II) programme in Ethiopia.
19-Dec-2008 - Tunis, December 18th, 2008 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a Unit of Account (UA)* 110 million African Development Fund (ADF) grant, equivalent to US$ 163.6 million, to finance the Protection of Basic Services II (PBS II) programme in Ethiopia.
17-Dec-2008 - Tunis, December 16, 2008 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Board of Directors approved an African Development Fund (ADF) grant of 100 million Unit of Account (UA*), equivalent to US$ 150 million, to Burundi and Rwanda for financing the Nyamitanga-Ruhwa- Ntendezi -Mwityazo Road Project.
17-Dec-2008 - Tunis, December 16, 2008 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Board of Directors approved an African Development Fund (ADF) loan of Unit of Account (UA*) 35 million, equivalent to US$ 52 million, to the Government of Uganda for financing the Kampala Sanitation Program - Phase I.
17-Dec-2008 - Tunis, 27 November 2008 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Board of Directors has approved a 25 million Units of Account* (equivalent to US$ 37.2 million) loan to Kenya to help finance a Technical, Industrial, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TIVET) Project in the country.
16-Dec-2008 - Tunis, 16 December 2008 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved an African Development Fund (ADF) loan of UA 52.51 million, equivalent to US$ 78.13 million, to finance a key electricity project in Uganda.
16-Dec-2008 - Tunis, 16 December 2008 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved supplementary loans of 43.10 million Units of Account (UA*), about US$ 64.13 million, to help finance the rehabilitation and upgrading of three major highways in Ghana.
The Tema-Aflao Rehabilitation Road project and the Akatsi-Dzodze-Noepe Road Upgrading project are aimed at promoting regional integration as well as contributing toward the government’s goal of poverty reduction and economic development by reducing travel time and vehicle operating costs.
15-Dec-2008 - The AfDB and the Government of The Netherlands signed on December 5, 2008, in Tunis an agreement related to the Dutch contribution to the Partnership Secretariat of Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A).
12-Dec-2008 - Tunis, December, 11th, 2008 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB), on Thursday 11 December 2008 in Tunis, approved a 70 million Euros loan to finance the Kingdom of Morocco’s Phase II Program Support for Medical Insurance (PARCOUM II), to be implemented over a period of two years (2009-2010).
12-Dec-2008 - Tunis, le 11 décembre 2008 – Le Conseil d’administration de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé ce 11 décembre 2008 un prêt de 64,8 millions de dollars US à la République de Guinée Equatoriale pour le financement du Programme de Formation des Cadres Moyens et Supérieurs.
Le Programme, prévu sur cinq ans, d’un montant total de 147,4 millions de dollars US, financé à 56% par le gouvernement, vise à mettre en place un dispositif innovant de formation technique et professionnelle des cadres moyens et supérieurs répondant aux...
11-Dec-2008 - Tunis, le 11 décembre 2008 - Le Conseil d’administration du Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé l’octroi, sur les ressources du Fonds africain de développement (FAD), d’un don de 30 millions d’unités de compte*, équivalent à 44,70 millions de dollars EU pour financer le programme de développement durable du Bassin du Lac Tchad (PRODEBALT). Les pays donateurs sont les pays membres de la Commission du bassin du Lac Tchad (CBLT): Cameroun, Niger, Nigeria, RCA et Tchad.
11-Dec-2008 - Tunis, 11 December 2008 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Board of Directors has approved a 22.91-million Euro loan to finance phase two of Tunisia’s Water Sector Investment Project (PISEAU II).
PISEAU II is a component of the Tunisian Water Mobilization and Management Strategy 2002-2011, and a follow up to PISEAU I which lasted from 2002 to 2007.
10-Dec-2008 - Tunis, 10 December 2008 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) approved has a US$ 30 million equity investment in the African Energy Infrastructure Fund (AEIF or the Fund), the first Pan-African private equity fund to focus on investing in power and energy projects. Since 1997, the Bank has approved a total of 15 private sector equity investments amounting to approximately USD 380 million.
10-Dec-2008 - Question: What does your country expect from the Bank after signing this agreement on its contribution to the Partnership Secretariat of "Making finance work for Africa"?
05-Dec-2008 - La Banque africaine de développement et l’Organisation mondiale de la santé ont procédé, jeudi 4 décembre 2008 à Tunis, à la signature d’un accord de don d’un montant de 15 millions d’unités de compte (environ 23 millions de dollars EU), relatif au financement du programme africain de lutte contre l’onchocercose ou « cécité des rivières ». Les cosignataires de l’accord étaient la vice-présidente de la BAD chargée des opérations sectorielles, Zeinab El-Bakri, et la sous-directrice régionale de l’OMS pour l’Afrique, le Dr Matshidiso Moeti.
03-Dec-2008 - Lusaka, 2 December 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.
The agreement was signed by Zambia’s Minister for Finance and National Planning, Situmbeko Musokotwane and the AfDB’s Resident Representative in Zambia, Vivienne Apopo.
