Infrastructure News

Kenya's new airport terminal to be completed in 2012

05/05/2011

Construction of a new terminal at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is expected to be completed by the end of 2012, ministers have revealed.

Bloomberg reports that the expansion will allow the airport, which serves...

Category: Transport

Cameroon: 540 million USD from China for hydroelectric dam at Memve'ele

05/05/2011

Last Tuesday, China signed a loan agreement with Cameroon for 540 million dollars for the realization of a hydroelectric dam project in the South of Cameroon.

This is the hydroelectric dam...

Category: Energy

India finances electrification on Grand-Comoros

05/05/2011

The vice-president in charge of the ministry of Energy, Idi Nadhoim, announced last Monday that India was going to grant a loan of 41.6 million dollars to finance an electrification project for the island...

Category: Energy

Senegal rejects nuclear power

04/05/2011

The Senegalese head of State, Abdoulaye Wade, announced on April 28 that Senegal was rejecting nuclear power in order to concentrate on renewable energies.

He made the announcement at the inauguration...

Category: Energy

KenGen receives Sh7.4 billion funding for energy plant

04/05/2011

A leading Kenyan energy firm has secured a Sh7.4 billion (£53.6 million) loan to finance the construction of a new 280-megawatt geothermal energy plant.

KenGen will receive the cash in a deal between Germany's...

Category: Energy

Construction of $102 million airport begins in Mozambique

04/05/2011

Transport infrastructure in Mozambique is set to be boosted by news that a $102 (£61.7 million) million airport is to be built in the northern city of Nacala.

It is hoped that the new facility will help expand existing...

Category: Transport

Central Africa has 'worst infrastructure in the continent'

03/05/2011

Improvements in transport and energy are needed in order for Central Africa to realise its full growth potential.

It follows news that the African Development Bank (AfDB) said in a report that Central Africa has the worst...

Categories: Energy, Transport

Kenyan firms set for energy investment boost

03/05/2011

Kenyan firms looking for finance for renewable energy projects and investments will be boosted by the news that a new fund has been set up to allow manufacturers easy access to funding.

The deal between Kenya Association of...

Category: Energy

Senegal: AFD to grant 50 million Euros to SENELEC

03/05/2011

The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is to provide a 50 million euro package to the Société nationale d'électricité sénégalaise (SENELEC) to renovate its generating plants.

Dov Zerah, director of...

Category: Energy

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