Burkina Faso will receive a US $50.66 million (UA 33.02 million) grant to finance a drainage and solid waste management project in the outlying districts of Ouagadougou. The sub-project was approved by the African Development Bank Group on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 in Tunis.
Based on studies...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 approved a €15-million general budget support loan for Cape Verde, to help the country finance its Public Corporate Governance and Investment Promotion Support Programme (PAGEPPI).
The Programme aims to...
10-Oct-2013
Mali to Receive US $75.5 Million Soft Loan to Finance a Drinking Water Supply Project in Bamako
The African Development Bank Group approved on Wednesday, October 9 a US $75.5 million (UA 50 million) soft loan for Mali to help the country finance a drinking water supply project in Bamako.
The project aims to produce an additional 144, 000 cubic metres of drinking water per day from Kabala...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) organized the first African stakeholder consultation meeting on the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in Tunis on 26-27 September, 2013. The objective of the meeting was to provide a platform for the African Board Members of the Fund to interact with their African...
03-Oct-2013
Red Cross Red Crescent and AfDB enter pan-African partnership on food security and disaster risk reduction
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Thursday, October 3 in Tunis establishing a partnership of cooperation, aimed at providing assistance to improve the lives of the most...
27-Sep-2013
Rwanda - Inland Lakes Integrated Development and Management Support Project - Project Completion Report
The fisheries and aquaculture sub-sector was beset with numerous constraints that hampered its sustainable management and development. The sub-sector was poorly organized, production zones were remote, production and marketing infrastructure and equipment were virtually non-existent and operators...
Participants in the African Development Fund have reaffirmed their commitment to supporting Africa’s continuing process of economic transformation, with a total replenishment amount of $7.3 billion for 2014 to 2016. Millions of Africans stand to benefit from improved energy supply, transport...
26-Sep-2013
AfDB Approves US $43.27 Million for Sierra Leone’s Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group met on Wednesday, September 18, 2013 in Tunis and approved US $43.27 million (UA 28.845 million) to finance Sierra Leone’s Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project, which aims to increase access to water and sanitation in the...