Infrastructure News

Creamer Media - 11 April 2012

State freight logistics group Transnet says it will shift its capital expenditure (capex) focus over the coming seven years from maintenance expenditure to expansionary investments and spend...

PBS News Hour - 11 April 2012

JUDY WOODRUFF: Next tonight: A civil war in West Africa forces a country to look at its water problems.

Special correspondent Steve Sapienza has another of his collaborations with African...

Creamer Media's Engineering News - 11 April 2012

Africa is able to spend about $72-billion a year on infrastructure, but there remains a $480-billion shortfall over the next decade, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday.

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Business Daily - 11 April 2012

Five east African countries have improved business environment for entrepreneurs in their respective nations by implementing critical regulatory reforms, a report by the World Bank has said.

The...

New York Times - April 10, 2012

THE world’s largest energy companies have big plans for Mozambique.

Until recently, the East African country was better known for its long civil war, and had few energy resources...

Bloomberg - April 12, 2012

On a January evening, Anand is shelling betel nuts by the light of an electric lamp in Halliberu, his village in India’s Karnataka state.

As his friends gather on the lamp-lit porch to swap stories,...

Informante - 11 April 2012

Editorial

One could assume that the firing of Titus Haimbili as TransNamib CEO came too late for tears as he has not only run the transport entity into the ground, but has also caused the collapse...

Daily News - 10 April 2012

Yuck! This is the response in most instances to the proposal to recycle water from sewage effluent.

But experts warn that there are already substances in our water supply that might draw similar...

allAfrica.com - 10 April 2012

editorial

Harare needs a proper urban transport system based on buses and, in time, incorporating rail and metro links as the city continues to expand and development becomes more dense. So far...

This is Africa - March 5, 2012

African governments once rushed into signing bilateral investment treaties to encourage FDI. Lawyers are now calling for new models

With much of Africa’s investment coming from abroad, how ...

Barclays - 2 April 2012

Africa is a region of opportunity for UK businesses and British goods and services have an excellent reputation across the continent, but the potential of the region is far from being realised by...

Manchester Evening News - 11 April 2012

UK companies need to do more to take advantages of opportunities to win customers among the growing African middle classes, according to a new report.

A Barclays survey of UK companies...

South Africa.info - 11 April 2012

South African state transport and logistics company Transnet has announced the details of a R300-billion investment in infrastructure that it says will create over half-a-million new jobs...

La Banque africaine de développement (BAD) va contribuer au financement de deux projets d’assainissement dans le centre du Maroc, rapporte l'agence de presse PANA.

La banque va mobiliser environ 70 pourcent du coût total des...

African Development Bank - March 2012

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Creamer Media - 10 April 2012

Creamer Media's Mariaan Webb speaks to Engineering News editor Terence Creamer about the latest version of the Industrial Policy Action Plan.

Watch this video by Creamer Media in ICA General...

BBC news - 9 April 2012

Portugal has agreed to give up its remaining stake in a giant hydroelectric dam in Mozambique, ending a long-running dispute.

Portugal, the former colonial power, had retained control of the Cahora...

BBC news - March 5, 2012

Cashew nut growers are no longer cheated out of income by middlemen when they use mobile phones to get the latest price information from the world's major buyers - India and Vietnam.

See photos with...

allAfrica.com - 8 April 2012

Maputo — The Mozambican government and the African Development Bank (ADB) are working on the final details of the contract to fund the second phase of the rehabilitation of the Lower Limpopo...

Media Terre - 9 avril 2012

Le premier forum international de l'électricité du Cameroun (Finelec) s'est déroulé à Yaoundé du 28 mars au 1er Avril 2012, avec pour objectif de faire le point sur la libéralisation du secteur de...