Five innovative projects in the High 5 areas have been awarded the Africa Development Impact Award Morocco received the Light up and power Africa category with an innovative solar power plant project to scale up renewable energy capacity; Mauritania won the Feed Africa category for an...
The African Natural Resources Center of the African Development Bank (AfDB) recently secured US $200,000 from the Korea-Africa Economic Cooperation(KOAFEC) fund to support Tanzania’s gas sector.
The Center’s gas expert, Charles Nyirahuku, provides an insight into the expected key deliverables...
With the roll-out of its High 5s priorities and an new Development and Business Delivery Model (DBDM) in 2016, the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), delivered a record US $11.00 billion worth of projects and programs during the year, targeting creation of 630,000 jobs mainly for...
No economy in the world can progress without secure energy supply
The AfDB invested US $1.5 billion to Light up and power Africa in 2016
Although African countries have spent money on energy during the last decades, the investments made have not kept pace with the continent’s population...
23-May-2017
AfDB Annual Meetings open in Ahmedabad: Deliberations underscore win-win Africa-India cooperation
The 52nd Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the 43rdMeetings of the Board of Governors of the African Development Fund (ADF) opened in Ahmedabad, India, on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 with calls for greater cooperation between the Bank and India to...
For Africa’s 1.2 Billion people, rural communities are home to almost two-thirds of the population. For most, Agriculture is the main source of livelihood. Even though Africa contains 65% of global uncultivated land, the continent is a net importer of food - $35 Billion a year. Djiby Mbaye...
The Power Distribution System Rehabilitation and Expansion Project (PDSRE) aims at strengthening the distribution networks in Juba to provide reliable electricity supply from existing and future generation facilities and thus satisfy the suppressed load and demand growth in the city.The upgraded...