Infrastructure News

Plans for road and rail lines linking Kenya to southern Sudan and Ethiopia could be funded by Chinese investors, the Financial Times has suggested.

A port and an oil refinery in Lamu are also part of the investment opportunities...

Two wind power generating centres are currently under construction in the region of Bizerte, in Tunisia.

The total amount of the work is estimated at 287 million Dollars, financed within the framework of a development aid fund...

Public private partnerships (PPP) could be the key to encouraging ICT infrastructure investment in Nigeria, it has been suggested.

Speaking on the heels of the recent Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation conference held...

South Africa is expected to invest heavily in energy and utilities infrastructure projects in 2010 - but questions as to the ability of the sector forerunners to make good on their plans have been highlighted in a recent report....

Minister of the Economy of the Ivory Coast, Charles Koffi Diby, and his counterpart Noël Bembambase have met recently in Ouagadougou to discuss the conclusion of a co-operation treaty.

This involved in particular discussing the...

Two billion Dollars – that is how much the investments will come to which are going to be allocated to infrastructure projects in 2010. Ali Bongo made this announcement during his goodwill speech made on Gabon television.

These...

South Africa's water infrastructure improvement needs have been quantified in a report by the Water Resource Group.

In figures relayed by publication Business Day, projects to expand capacity should be undertaken as soon as...

Mulonga Water and Sewerage needs investor aid to fix dilapidated infrastructure in three districts in order to improve reticulation.

The Zambian company is seeking some K500 billion (£66.4 million) to carry out the...

Zambian president Rupiah Banda has declared his investment intentions for the country's transport infrastructure in the coming years.

News source the Times of Zambia quoted the statesman as announcing the injection of some K56...

In news that could be of interest to investors seeking public private partnership opportunities in Rwanda, the parliament has created a new regulatory body affecting the water and electricity sectors.

Replacing the Rwanda...

The construction of extra roads and bridges is expected to accompany the introduction of Tunisia's new electric trains.

Faster and less polluting, the new train will replace older, diesel locomotives and facilitate travel within...

Hydro power stations and improved electricity infrastructure will be the priorities of energy company Zesco in the coming year.

Some $200 million (£125 million) has already been earmarked to generate 100 megawatts through...

South African power company Eskom has negotiated some €1.185 million (£1.067 million) with five French banks to fund the Medupi and Kusile turbines.

The money will be awarded in the form of a fixed-interest rate loan,...

With Angola's airports preparing for the arrival of football players and fans for next month's African Cup of Nations (CAN), the country is focusing on infrastructure improvements.

Angola is starting to establish itself as an...

The Kenya Investment Authority has said the country needs to develop alternative energy sources - and it needs public private partnerships (PPP) to do this.

Managing director Susan Kikawai urged investors to focus on localised...

The Zambian government has received $75 million (£46.6 million) to improve the state of its transport infrastructure and has announced the first projects to be funded by the loan.

Part of the money from the International...

Africa's data services progress relies on the ability of new submarine internet cables to provide more available international bandwidth at a lower cost.

Indeed, for the continent to develop its ICT infrastructure and benefit...

While the inauguration of the Bumbuna hydropower plant in Sierra Leone has brought a number of immediate benefits to the national economy, the first stage of the project is not enough on its own to supply the energy needs on the...

Uganda's national road network is to be improved through a $190 million (£117 million) grant from the World Bank and the British government.

Lead transport specialist for the Transport Sector Development Project and task...

This week saw the signing of an agreement in Abidjan for the restructuring of the debt between France and the Ivory Coast in an amount of 456 million Dollars.

“I want to assure you of the determination of the Ivory Coast to...