Tunis, 18 October 2006 – The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, on Wednesday in Tunis, approved a loan of 22 million Units of Account (UA*), equivalent to US$ 32.48 million to support the National Programme for Food Security (NPFS) in three states in Nigeria:  Ekiti, Ondo and Cross River.

Guinea Bissau’s Economy Minister and AfDB Governor, Maria Hélena Nosoline Embalo, and the AfDB Senegal Field office Resident Representative, Mohamed H’Midouche, on Wednesday, September 9, 2009, in Bissau, signed a grant agreement  on a government capacity building support project (PARCA).

Tunis, 23 July 2008 – The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved on Tuesday, 22 July 2008 in Tunis, US$ 24 million for Togo’s arrears clearance program.

Tunis, 27 October 2006 – The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) approved on Friday in Tunis, a grant of 3 million Units of Account (UA*), equivalent to US$ 4.4 million to finance good governance, economic management and poverty reduction in Liberia.

AfDB Vice President, Kamal El Kheshen, and the Chadian Agriculture Minister, Mbailou Naimbaye Lossimian, on Thursday, September 11, 2009, signed two Fragile States Facility grant agreements.

The first grant of UA 450,215.71, equivalent to US$ 706,839, will finance capacity building initiatives in the human resources and training department of the Chadian health ministry.