13-Feb-2015
Road improvement and trade facilitation: AfDB and Guinea sign US $50 million in loan agreements
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and Guinea on February 12 in Abidjan signed US $50 million in loan agreements to finance a road improvement and trade facilitation project. This Road Improvement and Transport Facilitation Project in the Mano River Union includes the tarring of 276.35...
10-Feb-2015
Project Briefs of 2010 OPSM Projects
Argan Infrastructure Fund (ARIF), is a closed-end private equity with a 12 year-term. ARIF plans to commit approximately 40% of its operations to Morocco, 30% to other North African countries and 30% to Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, West Africa. The fund’s target areas are energy,...
The African Development Bank Group, on Friday, January 30, 2015 in Abidjan, received Hiroshi Kato, Japan International Cooperation Agency Vice-President, on a courtesy visit to the institution. Vice-President Kato and his delegation – which included JICA’s Representative in Côte d’Ivoire, Yonezaki...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, January 28, 2014 approved Guinea Bissau’s Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for 2015-2019. The document provides a framework for the Bank’s post-crisis support to the country.
The framework is expected to help...
09-Jan-2015
Ghana and Togo sign project agreement to bring drinking water to Lomé and Ghana’s coastal communities
The governments of Ghana and Togo signed on 12 December 2014 a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the construction of an African Water Facility -supported pipeline to bring drinking water from the lower Volta River in Ghana to the city of Lomé in Togo and the Ghanaian communities along...
National Road 1 (NR1) is the backbone and main artery of the road transport system in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It links the Banana and Matadi ports in the West to Lubumbashi in the South up to the Zambian border over a distance of about 3 130 kilometres. It mainly serves the Bas-...
The Governments of Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leonesubmitted to the Bank a financing request for the upgrading of the following road sections:DananeLola (87.35 km) Bloléquin-Toulépleu-Liberia border (65 km), Tabou-Prollo (28 km), Karloken-Fish Town (80 km) and Harper-Cavallajunction...
The Lake Tanganyika Development Project (LTDP) is formulated within the framework of the Zambian Long Term Vision (known as Vision 2030) with which the country aims at becoming “A Prosperous Middle Income Nation by 2030”. In order to realise the Vision 2030, the project will contribute to the...
Le Gouvernement Tunisien a obtenu de la Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD) un prêt pour financer le coût du projet d’aménagement du Réseau Routier Classé de l’Etat dans le cadre du programme intitulé Bad V. Il est prévu qu'une partie des sommes accordées au titre de ce prêt sera utilisée pour...