The Manzini-Mbadlane Road Highway Project comprises the dualisation of a 30km section between the city of Manzini and Mbadlane on Main Road 3 (MR3). The project involves dualisation from existing two-lane single carriageway to two-lane dual carriageways with controlled or limited access to local...
Applauding Cape Verde’s graduation to middle income status, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 approved a new Country Strategy Paper designed to support the Government in its efforts to lay the foundations for more inclusive and green...
23-Apr-2014
Launch of the AfDB 50th Anniversary Celebrations
More than 70 senior officials representing the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) trade bloc, the Egyptian export and business council private sector, leading banks and related ministries, attended the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) forum held at the Four Season’s Hotel on...
The African Development Bank is committed to Rwanda’s vision of transformation to a middle income economy as it commemorates the 20th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in April 1994, said the President of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, while attending the...
Following the signing of the Capacity Building Project between the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) during the meetings of the African Heads of State and Government held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in January 2014, the AfDB formally launched the project in...
The purpose of this Brief is to provide the rationale for transforming Africa’s potential regional transport corridors into economic corridors and to discuss the role of the African Development Bank (AfDB or Bank) in this process. We refer to the Walvis Bay Corridor to illustrate the practicability...
The Government of Senegal has initiated a vast programme to improve the general level of services on the national road network and open up access to landlocked areas. Under this initiative, it intends to conduct technical execution studies and prepare competitive bidding documents for...
People adversely affected by the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) financed projects have, in the Independent Review Mechanism (IRM), a recourse system that enables them to call on the institution to comply with its own policies and procedures.
Sekou Toure, the director of the...