Infrastructure News

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...