Infrastructure News

IFC pledges $150m to Nigerian telecommunications

08/02/2010

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is a member of the World Bank Group, has announced it is to make a donation to improve Nigerian telecommunications.

Some $150 million (£96 million) has been pledged in...

New infrastructure projects in Senegal

08/02/2010

Senegal and South Korea have announced their intention to co-operate in the infrastructure sector, in particular by way of a project involving the construction of a coal-fired power station with a capacity of 250 MW.

Karim Wade,...

Category: Energy

Mauritius to construct refineries using €15m EIB loan

05/02/2010

Mauritius is to use a €15 million (£13.1 million) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to construct two sugar refineries.

The money forms part of a larger strategy aimed at ensuring the long-term viability of...

Category: General

Uganda gets $190m for road improvement

03/02/2010

Uganda has received a loan of $190 million (£118.9 million) from the World Bank to improve its transport sector.

Kundavi Kadiresan, the bank's Uganda manager, said upgrading the north-eastern corridors to southern Sudan and...

Category: Transport

KPLC: Regional cooperation key for achieving sustainable energy

02/02/2010

The managing director of Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) has said that regional cooperation would be key to achieving sustainable and affordable electricity supply.

Joseph Njoroge was quoted by the Daily Nation as saying...

Category: Energy

Senegal: More than 270 million USD to improve access to drinking water

02/02/2010

Senegal Prime Minister Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye has announced the mobilisation of 271.6 million Dollars to improve access to drinking water across the country.

These funds have been allocated within the framework of the...

Kenya to get 300 MW of wind power on national grid

01/02/2010

The Lake Turkana Wind Power project consortium (LTWP) will supply the Kenya Power Lighting Company with 300 MW following what is said to be the single largest Foreign Direct Investment by a private entity in the country in recent...

Category: Energy

$ 1.3 million to improve highway movement in the Ivory Coast

29/01/2010

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...

Plans for Uganda-Sudan-Kenya road network rehabilitation 'underway'

29/01/2010

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has said that plans to tarmac roads connecting the country to southern Sudan and Kenya were already underway.

Speaking at the commissioning of the new Uganda Clays factory at Kamonkoli, he...

Category: Transport

New bypass project could end Kenya's ferry chaos

28/01/2010

The Kenyan government is discussing a plan to build a bypass linking Mombasa Island to the south coast, which it says will have the effect of improving road links with Tanzania and the general quality of the transport network...

Category: Transport

MOU for African Financing Partnership signed by AfDB

28/01/2010

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the African Financing Partnership (AFP).

President of the AfDB Donald Kaberuka explained this year's target would be the collaborative...

Category: General

Degraded infrastructure 'compromises Nigerian deregulation plans'

27/01/2010

Government agencies and private organisations have urged the minister of petroleum resources not to go ahead with the full deregulation of the Nigerian downstream oil sector until all the necessary infrastructure improvement is...

Rwanda finds Nyabarongo hydro power project funder

27/01/2010

The Rwandan government has signed an agreement to receive a $60 million line of credit from the Exim Bank of India to finance the construction of the Nyabarongo hydro power project.

Collette Uwineza Ruhamya, State minister for...

Category: Energy

Tunisia to aid Rwandan rural electrification

26/01/2010

More than 40,000 homes in Rwanda are tipped to benefit from a rural electrification project with Tunisia.

Electrogaz and STEG International Services signed the bilateral partnership agreement adopting a single phase electricity...

Category: Energy

Tunisia: Major highway infrastructure projects in progress

25/01/2010

Tunisian Minister of Equipment, Mr. Slaheddine Malouche, announced the undertaking of a large number of highway infrastructure projects in the course of a press conference held this week in Tunis.

He referred to a total...

'Thousands to benefit' from clean water project in Tanzania

25/01/2010

A new water project in the Tanzanian village of Muungano received praise at its inauguration this weekend after its successful execution promised to bring clean and affordable drinking water to its 4,600 residents.

Some Sh181.8...

Category: Water

First wind farm in Algeria scheduled for 2012

25/01/2010

The first wind farm in Algeria will be operational in 2012, according to a press release from Vergnet, the company which will be carrying out the work.

Vergnet has just won the invitation to tender for the project, for an amount...

Appeal to the private sector for the construction of infrastructures in Southern Africa

25/01/2010

An appeal to private investors to finance transport, water, energy, and IT infrastructures was launched on Friday 22 January 2010 by the Southern Africa Development Community, as the Angop press agency reports.

João Caholo, the...

Morocco launches 'biggest national solar-thermal energy project'

22/01/2010

Morocco has launched a solar-thermal energy project it claims will be able to produce 2,000MW by 2020 - 38 per cent of its power needs.

North Africa's only non-oil producing nation also anticipates being able to decrease its oil...

Category: Energy

China EXIM bank funding saves Lagos-Kano rail plans

22/01/2010

Nigeria is hoping for the effective drawdown of a $500 million (£310.6 million) concessional loan from China Exim bank to kick-start the Lagos-Kano railway rehabilitation project.

Finance minister Mansur Muhtar said that...

Category: Transport

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