This document is a summary of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the construction project of the cross-border road Sangmélima-Ouesso which will link over about 575 km the Congolese county capital city of Ouesso to a Cameroonian town Sangmélima that is already connected to...
Le Conseil d’administration du Groupe de la BAD a adopté une nouvelle Stratégie d’intervention de la Banque africaine de développement pour le Cameroun couvrant la période 2015-2020. Cette période de 6 ans coïncide avec l’horizon restant du Document de stratégie pour la croissance et l’emploi du...
The Ivorian and Malian authorities requested the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support the implementation of the "Road Upgrading and Transport Facilitation Project on the Corridor Bamako -Zantiébougou -San Pedro". It includes the upgrading and asphalting of the following sections: (i) in Mali...
02-Jun-2015
Resume EIES Zantiebougou-Boundiali En
Côte d'Ivoire (CI) and Mali concur with converging strategies as evidenced by the programs for development and facilitation of transport and inter-state road transit initiated under the aegis of WAEMU and ECOWAS. These strategies are aimed, inter alia at: (i) structuring the productive activities...
What will it take to build a sustainable industrial base for Africa? Two Ministers, two professors, one economist, and an industrialist formed a panel on Wednesday, Day 3 of the AfDB 50th Annual Meetings in Abidjan, to brainstorm on the subject.
The panelists in the session titled “Road to...
The Governments of Togo and Burkina Faso, on May 29 in Abidjan, signed a protocol agreement worth 2.34 million Units of Account (UA)* with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to fund the Multinational Togo-Burkina Faso road rehabilitation and transport facilitation on the Lomé-Cinkanse-Ouagadougou...
06-May-2015
AfDB showcases initiatives for addressing climate change at Africa Climate Resilient Infrastructure Summit
The first Africa Climate Resilient Infrastructure Summit (ACRIS I), which concluded on April 29, 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, offered an opportunity for the African Development Bank to showcase its Climate Safeguard System (CSS). It aligns with the Bank’s Ten-Year Strategy 2013-2022, whose...
04-May-2015
East African transport corridors to adopt the Japanese Michi-no-Eki (Road Side Stations) concept
The Northern Transport Corridor in East Africa, extending from the port of Mombasa in Kenya and serving the hinterland countries of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan, is the busiest trade and transport corridor in East Africa handling the bulk of...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group approved a US $140-million loan to Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh Development Project on April 15, 2015 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
The Board also approved a US $1.90-million Middle Income Countries Technical Assistance Fund Grant to finance...