Le Conseil d’administration de la Coalition pour le dialogue sur l’Afrique (CoDA), une initiative soutenue par la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), l’Union africaine (UA) et la Commission économique des Nations unies pour  l’Afrique (CEA), a tenu sa sixième session ordinaire mercredi à Lisbonne, au Portugal.

Tunis, Tunisia — July 8, 2008 — The African Development Bank (AfDB) and Microsoft today signed today an agreement to work together to increase access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for all Africans.

The objective of this new partnership is to bridge the digital divide that exists in Africa in two particular areas - between Africa’s different regions and countries, and between Africa’s main urban centres and its rural areas.

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The dichotomy between statistics on Africa´s economic growth and realities on the ground emerged as a key talking point in discussions ahead of the 2011 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, whose central theme is: “Toward an Agenda for Inclusive Growth in Africa”. 

“Africans are no longer interested in impressive statistics that do not reflect realities on the ground,” AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka,  said at a breakfast meeting with the media covering the meetings in Lisbon, Portugal.

A NEPAD Secretariat delegation, led by the institution's Deputy CEO, Hesphina Rukato, met, on 3 July 2008 in Tunis, with key AfDB officials to explore possibilities of strengthening relations between the Secretariat and the AfDB, which is the lead agency on the NEPAD program for infrastructure development. Among the officials they met were representatives of the following departments: NEPAD, Regional Integration and Trade, Governance, Infrastructure, Agro-industry, Private Sector, and Resource Mobilization.