Infrastructure News

45 billion USD for a road and agricultural development project in DRC

05/04/2011

Graham Smith, coordinator of the project "Development corridor in the province of Lower Congo in the South West of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)", has announced that the total bill for...

Category: Transport

5,000 megawatts for Nigeria by December 2011

05/04/2011

Barth Nnaji, energy advisor to the president, has announced that Nigeria is committed to achieving electricity generation of 5000 Megawatts by the end of December 2011.

He made this announcement at...

Category: Energy

Swaziland to invest in road upgrades and maintenance

04/04/2011

Major spending is required in order to improve and maintain the MR3 Ngwenya-Manzini road over the next decade.

The Swazi Ministry of Public Works and Transport has revealed that E1 billion (£92 million) will be spent in the...

Category: Transport

Tanzania and Uganda plan joint railway venture

04/04/2011

Increased trade from East Africa has prompted Tanzania and Uganda to jointly plan the development of a new railway line and ports on Lake Victoria.

The $2.7 billion (£1.67 billion) venture will see an 800km railway link a...

Category: Transport

WADB provides funding for several infrastructure projects in Africa

04/04/2011

Thursday, March 31: The West African Development Bank (WADB) has approved eleven infrastructure projects with a total value of 185 million dollars.

The main ones are the project to construct...

Categories: Transport, Energy

Ethiopia to build hydropower project on River Nile

01/04/2011

Plans are afoot in Ethiopia to install a hydropower project by the River Nile.

The cost of the programme is believed to be around $4.7 billion (£2.9 billion) and it marks the first time the country has invested so heavily...

Categories: Water, Energy

Three new refineries in Nigeria by 2014

01/04/2011

Three new refineries are to be built in Nigeria between 2011 and 2014, it was announced last Tuesday by the director of Refineries and petrochemical products of the NNPC, Philip...

Category: Energy

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