Tunis, 9 September 2009 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group on Wednesday, 9 September 2009 in Tunis approved Mauritius’ Country Strategy Paper (CSP), which presents the Bank’s support program for the country from 2009 to 2013.

Tunis, 9 September 2009 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved on Wednesday, 9 September 2009 in Tunis, a grant of US$ 23.6 million dollars (UA 15 million), to finance the Malawi Agricultural Infrastructure Support Project (AISP).

This new intervention of the ADF, which has approved today a loan of 9.58 million units of account (US$ 14 million), will support a rural electrification project in the Senegalese region of Louga.

The project will help improve the living conditions of rural populations through improved access to electricity and enhanced management capacity of sub-sector institutions, while promoting productive sectors (trade, cottage industries, stockbreeding, etc.).

Le Conseil d’administration la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé, le 9 septembre 2009, le cadre révisé de l’Évaluation de l’additionnalité et des résultats en matière de développement (ADOA), qui avait été approuvé initialement en septembre 2008.

Tunis, 27 September 2005 - The African Development Bank and Tunisia signed two loan agreements worth 133.025 million UA in Tunis on Tuesday.

The first agreement involves a loan of 33.025 million UA to finance a project for the reduction of pollution and the improvement of the competitiveness of the Gafsa Phosphates Company (CPG) as well as the country’s mineral extraction sector.