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Source: African Development Bank Group (AfDB) | Feb 11, 2025

African Development Bank’s Climate Action Window channels $31m to boost climate resilience in four countries

The Climate Action Window of the Bank Group’s African Development Fund seeks to mobilize $4 billion by 2025 to provide rapid and coherent access to climate finance

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved over $31 million in funding under its African Climate Action Window (CAW) to strengthen climate resilience in Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Djibouti, and Madagascar. The Climate Action Window of the Bank Group’s African Development Fund seeks to…

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- The African Development Bank provides additional financial support to enable South Sudan to increase its non-oil revenue mobilization
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Source: African Development Bank Group (AfDB) | Jun 13, 2024

African Development Bank Group approves $8.6 million grant to boost non-oil revenue mobilization in South Sudan

The African Development Fund (ADF), the Bank Group’s concessional window, will provide $6.62 million, while $1.98 million will come from the ADF’s Transition Support Facility

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved a grant funding of $8.6 million to South Sudan to advance the second phase of the Non-Oil Revenue Mobilization and Accountability Project (NORMA II). The African Development Fund (ADF), the Bank Group’s concessional window, will provide $6.62 million,…

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- l-r) Somalia Minister of Finance Bihi Egeh, South Sudan Governor of the Central Bank (Alternate Governor) Dr. James Alic Garang, Union of the Comoros Finance Minister Mzé Abdou Mohamed Chanfiou, AfDB Vice Pres. Dr. Beth Dunford, Djibouti Minister of Economy and Finances Ilyas Moussa Daweleh and Bank Director General for East Africa Nnenna Nwabufo were among the officials taking part in the signing ceremony
- Djibouti Minister of Economy and Finances H.E. Ilyas Moussa Daweleh and VP Dunford pose for the press after signing the project documents
- Annual Meetings 2024: Comoros, Djibouti, Somalia and South Sudan join $35 million African Development Bank climate disaster risk financing project
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Source: African Development Bank Group (AfDB) | Jun 04, 2024

Annual Meetings 2024: Comoros, Djibouti, Somalia and South Sudan join $35 million African Development Bank climate disaster risk financing project

The Bank’s Board of Directors approved the Multi-National Climate Disaster Risk Financing Project on 3 May 2024

The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development joined finance ministers and representatives from Comoros, Djibouti, Somalia and South Sudan for the signing agreement for a $35 million project to build resilience and responses to climate shocks. The signings took place on the sidelines…

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- Osama Mahdi, Dep. Project Coordinator for South Sudan Urban Water Corporation, shows VP Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade and the team around the Bank-funded water project. Juba February 2024
- On a three-day visit to South Sudan, AfDB Vice President Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade interacts with refugees at the Gendrassa camp fleeing conflict in neigbouring Sudan. February 2024
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Source: African Development Bank Group (AfDB) | Feb 11, 2024

African Development Bank to scale up financing to South Sudan in 2024 – Vice President Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade

The Bank's ongoing portfolio in South Sudan amounts to $160 million, with the top sectors being agriculture, skills and social development, and governance

The African Development Bank’s Vice President for Regional Development (www.AfDB.org), Integration and Business Delivery, Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade has concluded a three-day visit to South Sudan. Akin-Olugbade met with high-level government officials including First Vice President, Riek Machar, and the ministers of Finance and National Planning, Interior, Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management,…

Source: African Development Bank Group (AfDB) | Feb 09, 2024

African Development Bank, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) explore pathways to support forcibly displaced people in South Sudan

Since the start of the war in Sudan 300 days ago, more than half a million people have arrived in South Sudan, most of them South Sudanese who had been in Sudan for decades

During a joint visit to South Sudan, the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, committed to deepening their collaboration for displaced people and host communities in the country. Since the start of the war in Sudan 300 days ago, more than half a million people have…

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- The African Development Bank will make a substantial contribution to the construction of the Laropi-Moyo-Afoji road in Uganda to improve rural transport and facilitate regional integration. © AfDB 2023
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Source: African Development Bank Group (AfDB) | Dec 01, 2023

Uganda: African Development Bank to lend more than $252 million to improve rural transport and facilitate regional integration

The financial support consists of two loans: $179.68 million from the African Development Bank and $73.15 million from the African Development Fund, the Bank Group's concessional loan window

Meeting on 1 December in Abidjan, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved a loan of $252.83 million to Uganda, to fund the construction of the Laropi-Moyo-Afoji and Katuna-Muko-Kamuganguzi road. The financial support consists of two loans: $179.68 million from the African Development Bank and $73.15 million from…

Source: African Development Bank Group (AfDB) | Jul 17, 2022

South Sudan: African Development Bank grants $8.1 million to support food production

The grant constitutes additional financing to the ongoing Agricultural Markets, Value Addition and Trade Development Project (AMVAT)

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved a grant of $8.1 million to South Sudan to fund its Emergency Food Production Programme. Allocated through the Transition Support Facility (https://bit.ly/3uUoC2o), the grant constitutes additional financing to the ongoing Agricultural Markets, Value Addition and Trade Development Project (AMVAT). AMVAT seeks…

Source: African Development Bank Group (AfDB) | Mar 10, 2022

The African Development Bank Group approves a Borrowing Policy to strengthen Debt Sustainability in Low-income Countries

The new policy primarily targets recipients of the African Development Fund, the concessional window of the Bank Group

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved a new policy that aims to strengthen debt sustainability among low-income African countries. The Board approved the Sustainable Borrowing Policy on 23 February 2022. The new policy primarily targets recipients of the African Development Fund, the concessional…

Source: African Development Bank Group (AfDB) | Feb 10, 2022

African Development Bank and WHO strengthen South Sudan’s emergency response with phase two of public health center

During phase two, the Center was equipped with hardware and software to facilitate emergency response operations

The government of South Sudan on Thursday inaugurated its Public Health Emergency Operations Center designed to respond promptly and effectively to public health risks and emergencies of international concern. The center is part of a $4.2 million African Development Bank grant-financed Covid-19 response project that included procuring an oxygen plant,…

Source: African Development Bank Group (AfDB) | Dec 14, 2021

South Sudan: A doctor recalls trauma and triumphs with Covid-19 patients

Lori said that improvements in the infectious disease unit have made a significant difference

Dr. Abe Manase Lori is haunted by the memory of a 45-year-old patient who succumbed to Covid-19 at the beginning of the pandemic in South Sudan. “This was a time when we ran out of resources…It was unfortunate. We lost him,” said the 34-year-old doctor, who works at the Dr.…