The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) together with partners conducted a five-day training for government officials on the legal aspects of preparing Public Private Partnerships (PPP). The event was held from November 23-27, 2015 in Lomé, Togo. 

Participants included regulators, private and public lawyers, professional services practitioners and financiers representing Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Mauritania, Niger, and the West African Development Bank (BOAD).

The heads of the world’s largest development banks have pledged to work together to substantially increase climate investments and ensure that development programs going forward consider climate risks and opportunities.

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) identified climate financing for development action as a crucial step in putting the world on the pathway for sustainable development at the 21st Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris on Monday.

The 4^th Annual African Financial Markets Initiative (AFMI) workshop on Local Currency Bond Markets in now underway in Johannesburg, South Africa.

On December 17, 2014, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved a donation of approximately US $108 million from the resources of the African Development Fund (AFD) to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The project involves the development of the Tshikapa-Mbuji Mayi route, more specifically the 87-kilometre Tshikapa-Kamuesha section, and the repair of related agricultural and rural infrastructure in the province of Western Kasai. This province is very isolated due to the advanced state of disrepair of its road network.