The seminar was organized by the Bank in Abuja, Nigeria, in parallel with the Bank's Annual Meetings. The meeting aimed at providing a platform on which the key stakeholders in Africa ’s infrastructure sector can dialogue, identify the basic problems in infrastructural development, and suggest strategies for the increasing level of private sector investment in the infrastructure projects under the NEPAD Short Term Action Plan.

Freetown, 7 August 2007 – The African Development Bank Group’s Resident Representative in Sierra Leone, Mrs. Margaret Kilo on Tuesday in  Freetown, presented her Letters of Appointment to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mr. Momodu Koroma. 

Tunis, 4 May 2005 – The Board of the African Development Bank (ADB) approved on Wednesday a set of Bank management’s recommendations aimed at strengthening the development effectiveness of its interventions in Africa’s Middle Income Countries (MICs).  The recommendations and undertakings, prepared by a Task Force of Bank staff, cover a set of procedures, processes and products involved in the provision of lending and non-lending support to MICs.

The "Creation of Sustainable Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Free Areas in West and East Africa" is a first phase project of a 37-country programme called the Pan-African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign (PATTEC). PATTEC is one of the programmes approved by the African Union under the NEPAD Initiative. The programme strategy is based on the concept of Integrated Pest Management and the Area-Wide Approach. It will be implemented in a sustained and continuous manner through phased series of interlinked and coordinated projects.