African Development Bank

Press Releases

AfDB’s new Uganda Country Manager presents credentials, pledges stronger development partnership

The African Development Bank Group’s newly appointed country manager for Uganda, Themba Bhebhe, last month presented his diplomatic credentials to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
Two men, standing, shake hands at a diplomatic presentation of credentials.
CompaniesEnvironmentRenewable energy

Burn Manufacturing secures funding from AfDB to expand electric cooking in East and Southern Africa

Burn Manufacturing, the Kenyan producer of clean cookstoves and carbon developer, has secured a $4mn grant from the African Development Bank to roll out electric cooking solutions in Uganda, Kenya, and Zambia
A woman sits in a kitchen while someone else tends to a wood-fired, open, three-stone stove behind her.
EconomyInfrastructure

Uganda gets $252.8mn road construction loan from African Development Bank

Roads, both to international borders, will help connect rural areas and facilitate regional integration
The African Development Bank headquarters building in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Press Releases

AfDB project to improve farmers’ access to fertiliser with $2.9mn in loan guarantees and grants

The three-year project will support two wholesalers to sell subsidised fertiliser, and link them to agro-dealers who will act as resellers
Smiling farmer holding up harvest from her fruit garden
Economy

Uganda signs Shs500b AfDB loan for Busega-Mpigi expressway

The finance ministry has signed two loan agreements with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to finance the construction of the 23.7 kilometre Busega-Mpigi Expressway project and rehabilitation of its auxiliary road to Rwanda.