The African Development Bank Board of Directors on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 in Tunis approved a five-year Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for Liberia covering the period 2013-2017. The paper tails the Joint Assistance Strategy (prepared jointly with the World Bank) for 2008-2012; and will support the...

For the fifth time the African Development Bank was a co-organizer of the Africa Carbon Forum (ACF) along with UN agencies, the World Bank and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). This important forum was held from July 3-5, 2013 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Given the challenges of...

The following discussion presents a non-technical summary of the environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) carried out for the Rusumo Falls High Voltage Transmission Line Project. It presents a description of the project including its justification and alternative analysis. It also presents...

This Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) has been prepared to specify the compensation, resettlement and rehabilitation requirements and arrangements for the transmission component of RUSUMO Falls Hydroelectric Project. The transmission lines are in each of the participating countries of Burundi, Rwanda...

A new project supported by the African Development Group (AfDB) plans to exploit the geothermal potential in the Lake Assal region to enable Djiboutian population’s access to a reliable, renewable and affordable source of energy.   Currently Djibouti relies mostly on fossil fuels and some...

The Loiyangalani-Suswa 400kV (kilovolt) transmission line is one of the associated components of the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, an independent power project sponsored by the Lake Turkana consortium expected to inject an additional 300MW (megawatts) of wind generated energy to the national...

The government of Kenya has approached the Bank for Partial Risk Guarantee (PRG) in the favour of Lake Turkana Wind Farm Project and its associated facility, specifically the high voltage transmission line for the evacuation of power from the wind farm. The Lake Turkana Transmission Line Delay...

“This is the last lap of my visit to Africa. At each stop, my paramount message has been that even if this continent is faced with great challenges, it is also a moment of promise and hope for Africa”. “Africa is a continent of hope”, declared  Barack Obama in a speech at a business forum on...

The summary of the ESIA evaluates and presents the environmental and social impacts that are expected to result from construction and operation of the proposed project, and in accordance with policies and guidelines from the AfDB, EIB, KfW and World Bank. This report: (i) describes the project; (ii...