African Development Bank Support for Safe City Water and Sewage Treatment in ...

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has today announced a loan of US $211-million to help address the urgent need for improved water and sanitation in the city of Arusha in Tanzania. The sum represents 90% of the cost of the Tanzanian Government program to alleviate the threat of major environmental and health issues and improve the quality of life for Arusha inhabitants.

Arusha city in Tanzania is a major regional hub. Since 2010, the Arusha Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Authority...

East African Community Secretariat, Arusha, Tanzania, 24 June 2014;The Federal Republic of Germany today signed an intergovernmental agreement with the East African Community (EAC) in order to support higher education and training for future journalists and media professionals.

Germany makes available a financial contribution of 14 million Euros in support of the Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC) of the Aga Khan University, a recently established Centre of Excellence for ...

How NABA is Supporting African Bank Development  The African Exponent

It has come to our attention that individuals and various agents are purporting to be in a position to help in doing business with the African Development Bank Group with fraudulent intentions, including the of soliciting funds as compensation. Such misrepresentations are usually, but not exclusively, in the form of fraudulent email using fake emails accounts.The African Development Bank Group takes this violation of the Bank’s corporate value of integrity seriously and is committed to...

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Abidjan, Wednesday 27 May 2015 – WWF awarded its prestigious Leaders for a Living Planet award to Donald Kaberuka, outgoing African Development Bank (AfDB) President, in recognition of his bold steps to mainstream sustainability concerns and champion the fight against illicit wildlife trade during his tenure at the African Development Bank. At a colorful luncheon on the sidelines of the AfDB’s Annual Meetings, Marco Lambertini, WWF Director General gave tribute to Mr Kaberuka‘s effort to...

Cristina Duarte, Minister of Finances and Planning, Republic of Cabo Verde.

“No other institution is better suited than the AfDB to give Africa the needed boost to reach the promised land” – Cristina Duarte*

 As we celebrate Africa Day, it gives me great pleasure to congratulates our continent for the remarkable vision it has had by embarking, decades ago, in a project aimed at achieving its unity. This year’s Africa Day coincides with the return to its headquarters of the prime...

NIC Bank Tanzania will benefit from Tzs 8.5 Billion of additional capital from the Bank’s shareholders. The funds will be disseminated in two tranches of Tzs 5.8B with the injection of additional capital from NIC Bank Kenya already done in December 2013, with the Tzs 2.7B balance from the other local shareholders of NIC Bank Tanzania expected within a period of 6 months but no later than June 2014.

“A growing financial need in this market has required that NIC Bank Tanzania further grow...