01-Dec-2008 - Un accord de 5 millions de dollars, entérinant la contribution des Pays-Bas à l'Association pour le développement de l'éducation en Afrique (ADEA), a été signé lundi à Tunis à la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), qui abrite l'ADEA depuis le mois d'août 2008. La contribution aidera à financer le Plan à moyen terme (2008-2012) de l'ADEA pour les cinq prochaines années.
01-Dec-2008 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, on Monday, December 1, 2008, in Tunis signed a technical cooperation agreement establishing a new bilateral € 2 million trust fund with the Portuguese government.
28-Nov-2008 - Tunis, 27 November, 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.
28-Nov-2008 - Tunis, le 27 novembre 2008- Le conseil d’administration du Fonds africain de développement (FAD - Groupe de la BAD) a approuvé l’octroi d’un don de 28, 2 millions de dollars US (17,85 millions d’unités de compte*), destiné aux Pays Membres Régionaux (PMR) pour le renforcement de leurs capacités statistiques en vue du suivi des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement (OMD) et de la mesure des résultats. Ce programme multinational couvre 52 pays africains (la Somalie ne faisant pas encore partie du programme).
28-Nov-2008 - Tunis, November 27th, 2008 – The African Development Fund (ADB Group) Board of Directors has approved a UA 25 million* loan, equivalent to US $ 37.5 or CFAF 19.13 billion, to finance the Milk and Meat Sectors Support Project (PAFILAV) in Benin.
28-Nov-2008 - Tunis, 27 November, 2008 – The African Development Fund (ADF) Board of Directors has approved a US$ 148 million (UA* 99,77 million) financing for the Interconnection of Electric Grids of Nile Equatorial Lakes Countries, concerning loans of: UA 17.73 million to Kenya and UA 7.59 million to Uganda, as well as grants of UA 15.15 million to Burundi, UA 27.62 million to the DR Congo, UA 30.47 million to Rwanda, and UA 1.21 million to the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI).
27-Nov-2008 - Tunis, 25 November 2008 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Board of Directors has approved a Grant of 14 million Units of Account (UA)*, equivalent to US$ 20.8 million, to help finance Burundi’s Second Economic Reform Support Programme (ERSP-II).
The funding, approved by the Board in Tunis on Tuesday, comprises a grant of UA12 million from the "Fragile States Facility" (FSF) of the African Development Fund, the concessionary window of the Bank Group, and an AfDB grant of UA 2 million within the framework of the "Bank’s Response to...
27-Nov-2008 - Tunis, 27 November 2008 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB), through its private sector window approved today a Euro 34 million loan to OLEA CAPITAL FUND.
OLEA CAPITAL is an agro-industrial project aimed at producing olive oil in Morocco, combining super-intensive olive plantations over 10, 000 hectares and crushing factories.
27-Nov-2008 - Dar es Salaam, 26 November, 2008 – A new loan to reduce poverty through more transparency and accountability in the management of public funds was signed on Wednesday, 26 November 2008, in Dar es Salaam, between the Tanzanian government and the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group.
After less than a month from its approval by the Board, the Bank fast tracked the signing of the loan agreement to make resources available to the government in good time.
26-Nov-2008 - Tunis, November 25th, 2008 - The African Development Fund (ADF) Board of Directors has approved a supplementary loan of FCFA 12.350 billion (UA 18 million) for the WAEMU/Ghana Road Programme (RP1) with Burkina Faso as the beneficiary.
The RP I is the first programme implemented in the ECOWAS region under the NEPAD Short-Term Action Plan (STAP) for the transport sector. An ADF loan agreement and an ADF grant protocol agreement (UA 68 million) were signed on December 18, 2003 with the governments of Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali and the WAEMU...
26-Nov-2008 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the borrowing arm of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has approved a UA 52 million loan, equivalent to US$ 84.25 million, to Uganda to finance the country’s Post-Primary Education Expansion and Improvement Project (Education IV).
25-Nov-2008 - Tunis, November 25th, 2008 – The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank approved a US $ 24.3 million loan to Equatorial Guinea to finance the Public Finance Management Support Project (PFMSP). The PFMSP of US $ 48.6 million, 50% of which is financed by the government, is designed to cover four years and it aims at improving the country’s economic and financial management system through the planning, budgeting and control functions.
25-Nov-2008 - Tunis, le 25 novembre 2008 - Le conseil d’administration du Fonds africain de développement (Groupe de la BAD) a approuvé un prêt de 310 millions de dollars US (188,64 millions d’unités de compte - UC) en faveur du Cameroun et du Nigeria ainsi qu’un don de 26,5 millions de dollars US (16,16 millions d’UC) en faveur de la CEDEAO pour la mise en œuvre du programme de facilitation du transport sur le corridor Bamenda-Mamfe-Abakaliki-Enugu.
20-Nov-2008 - MZFO’s Res Rep Alice Hamer, and Mozambique’s Minister of Planning and Development, Minister Aiuba Cuereneia, the country’s Bank Group Governor, signed on 17 November, 2008, the second Poverty Reduction Support Loan (PRSL II), amounting to 60 million UA, to finance the Government’s second Absolute Poverty Reduction Support Program (PARPA II).
20-Nov-2008 - Tunis, le 19 novembre 2008 – Le Conseil d’administration de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) vient d’approuver la proposition d’une participation de 30 millions de dollars dans le Fonds africain d’infrastructure énergétique (AIEF).
Le projet d’investissement dans l’AIEF s’inscrit dans la continuation du soutien apporté par la BAD aux fonds d’infrastructures. La participation offre à la Banque l’opportunité de poursuivre ses efforts visant à satisfaire les besoins importants en énergie de l’Afrique tout en encourageant les opérations...
19-Nov-2008 - The African Development Bank Group on Monday, November 17, 2008, in Tunis signed agreements for a loan and grant with Niger to finance the Kandadji Ecosystems Regeneration and the Niger Valley Development Programme (KERNVDP).
Estimated at UA 40 million, equivalent to US$ 62 million, the loan and grant will make it possible for the country find solutions to the recurrent drought it is facing and the degradation of natural resources by regenerating the riverine ecosystems and boosting agricultural production with poverty reduction as the...
19-Nov-2008 - Lilongwe, 19 November 2008- The Bank Group and the Malawi Government on Wednesday, November 19, 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.
19-Nov-2008 - Tunis, 19 November 2008 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved US$ 97.2 million (33.84 million Euros and 53.34 million dollars) loan to finance Morocco’s 10th Drinking Water Supply Project, bringing the Bank Group’s overall commitment in the country to US$ 5.64 billion in 93 operations since the Bank started operations in the country in 1970.
18-Nov-2008 - Maputo, 17 November 2008 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the government of Mozambique have signed a US$90 million budget support loan agreement to finance the country’s second Absolute Poverty Reduction Support Program (PARPA II).
The agreement was signed on Monday, 17 November 2008, in Maputo by Mozambique’s Planning and Development Minister, Aiuba Cuereneia, and the AfDB’s Resident Representative in Mozambique, Alice Hamer.
11-Nov-2008 - Tunis, 11 November 2008 - Efforts to improve water supply and sanitation in Zanzibar have received strong support from the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group which on Tuesday in Tunis, approved a combined loan and grant of 28 million Units of Account (UA*), about US$ 41.8 million, to finance the island’s water and sanitation project.
