Infrastructure News

African transport sector 'needs regional cooperation as well as investment'

14/12/2009

Improving transport infrastructure in Africa will depend on effective regional integration as well as investment efforts, studies have found.

The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic carried out in 24 different sub-Saharan...

Category: Transport

WAPP to get EIB technical aid

11/12/2009

The West African Power Pool (WAPP) will receive European Investment Bank (EIB) technical assistance for its integrated regional electricity project.

With €935,000 (£846,000) from the EU-Africa infrastructure fund, the...

Category: Energy

Senegal investing in 1500 km of highways

10/12/2009

Senegal’s Minister of Air Transport and Infrastructures, Karim Wade, announced this week that more than 1500 km of highways are to be constructed by 2015, as well as 15 bridges being upgraded.

This highways project falls within...

East Africa to get regional railway

10/12/2009

Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi are to be linked by a railway in a project sponsored by the World Bank and the African Development Bank.

Speaking at a press conference in Kigali, Burundi's minister for public works and equipment...

Category: Transport

WAGP 'on track'

10/12/2009

Nigeria's decision to reserve 30 per cent of its fuel production for domestic use will not affect its supply commitments to the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) project, the government has assured investors.

The minster of...

Category: Energy

$ 1.3 million to improve highway movement in the Ivory Coast

09/12/2009

The World Bank has granted 112,000 Dollars to the Ivory Coast in order to promote ease of movement on highways across the country, with a further 1.2 million Dollars to be added in 2010.

The funds will be used to finance a...

Zambia to get transport infrastructure boost

09/12/2009

The Zambian government has signed a $23 million (£14.2 million) contract with Konoike, a Japanese company, to improve and maintain roads in Ndola and Kitwe. Administered through Japanese grant aid, the project will take up...

Category: Transport

Morocco: $161 million to upgrade electricity network

08/12/2009

The African Development Bank (BAD) has approved a loan of more than 161 million Dollars to finance a project to upgrade the electricity network in Morocco.

The aim is to improve services to users of the National Electricity...

Tanzania to receive road infrastructure support

08/12/2009

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a loan of $245 million (£150 million) to improve the conditions of two important stretches of road - the Iringa-Dodoma axis and the highway between Namtumbo and Tunduru. On a...

Category: Transport

Electricity network in the Ivory Coast needs $560 million

07/12/2009

To explain the reasons for this situation to the citizens of the Ivory Coast, the Ivory Coast Electricity Company organized a press conference last week in Abidjan.

The power cuts which occur are linked to the delay in...

IAEA: Nuclear good for Nigeria

07/12/2009

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) gave its approval last week to the possibility of a nuclear power plant in Nigeria to meet the country's growing energy needs. Director-general representative Dr Vincent Nkong-Njock...

Category: Energy

Future of Kenya to be found in geothermal resources

04/12/2009

Kenya has sufficient resources for the majority of its electricity production to be met from its own energy supplies, according to a report from the Kenyan Manufacturers Association published on Tuesday 2 December by the...

Nigeria to get 200MW power plant

04/12/2009

GE Oil & Gas and Rockson Engineering Nigeria will collaborate to respectively design and construct eight gas turbines capable of generating up to 200 MW in Kaduna.

The companies were awarded the $230 million (£139...

Category: Energy

Regional integration to meet the challenges of Africa

03/12/2009

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga called upon the African states to favour regional programmes during a United Nations conference on Tuesday 2 December 2009.

According to him, this is the best solution for meeting the many...

CBK infrastructure bond 'twice oversubscribed'

03/12/2009

A Kenya infrastructure bond has drawn $589 million (£355 million) in bids, Bloomberg has reported. The Central Bank of Kenya reported bids for their infrastructure bond sale were twice oversubscribed. Director of monetary...

Category: Energy

Solar energy being developed in Algeria

02/12/2009

The Algerian electricity company Sonelgaz has decided to invest in renewable sources of energy.

The company has announced the establishment of a plant for the manufacture of photovoltaic modules, which produce electricity thanks...

TBEA: East African energy investment to start with Kenya

02/12/2009

Kenya will be the point of entry for Chinese energy firm TBEA, which aims to expand its investment in power generation and transmission to East Africa in the next few years. International business co-ordinator Wei Hua was quoted...

Category: Energy

SA gets EU energy funding boost

02/12/2009

South Africa (SA) has received a loan of €40 million (£36.3 million) to be invested by the FirstRand Bank in renewable power projects. Focus will be on industrial cogeneration, but support for individual projects...

Category: Energy

Road asphalting project in Cameroon

01/12/2009

Cameroon has just received a loan of 11.5 million Dollars from the Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development to provide financing for part of a road asphalting project. 

This involves the Sangmélima-Djoum highway, which...

Kenya to use $2bn fund for renewable energy

01/12/2009

The Kenyan government has announced its intention to develop renewable energy from a $2 billion (£1.2 billion) fund set up with the aid of the World Bank, the French Development Agency, the KfW of Germany and African...

Category: Energy

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