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Posted by SABC on Youtube March 15, 2012

President Jacob Zuma said the open-tolling system will assist government to obtain revenue that will be utilised to improve road infrastructure. He acknowledged that the tolling would...

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allAfrica.com - March 14, 2012

It will feed 300 Megawatts into the national grid via a 400km high-voltage transmission line that will be concurrently built by the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company

When Willem Dolleman...

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 16, 2012

Rwanda is banking on foreign lenders to raise $6-billion for a major energy expansion programme aimed at tackling severe electricity shortages and powering its fast-expanding...

Business Daily - March 13, 2012

The government is betting on improved infrastructure to lift trade with Ethiopia as concerns wane over the landlocked neighbour’s controlled economy.

Just days after commissioning the...

allAfrica.com - 13 March 2012

A robust road transport is essential to development in southern Africa where access to good and well-serviced roads may be the difference between prosperity and poverty or even between life and ...

African Brains - March 15, 2012

Mbombela – The Mpumalanga Provincial Government has set aside R2.8 billion for infrastructure projects in the coming financial year, which starts on 1 April.

These funds, which were announced...

Mail & Guardian online - March 16, 2012

A failure to invest in water infrastructure is holding back the economies of many sub-Saharan countries, African Ministers' Council on Water (Amcow) executive secretary Bai-Mass Taal...

Banque africaine de développement - 15 mars 2012

Une délégation de la BAD a visité, le 15 mars 2012, le site du projet d'appui au développement agricole de Bugesera(PADAB). Cette visite s'est déroulée en marge de la conférence...

African Development Bank - March 15, 2012

Over 100 Members of Parliament (MPs) from 40 African countries have agreed to step up efforts to improve the business environment on the continent by reviewing legislation linked to...

allAfrica.com - March 16, 2012

HARARE City Council has secured US$100 million from the Development Bank of Southern Africa for water and sewer upgrading. The money is expected to improve water and sanitation delivery in...

PBS News Hour - March 15, 2012

Two journalists investigate the challenges of bringing the most basic necessity to the people of Ghana and Nigeria: clean, safe water. As part of a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on...

La Commission Nationale d’Urbanisme a signé un accord de 3,5 milliards de nairas (16.5 millions d’euros) avec le gouvernement allemand afin d’aider les secteurs des énergies renouvelables et de...

IBM, the US-based technology giant, has presented Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, with a grant of $400,000 to help the city to make significant upgrades to its transportation systems.

To this end, IBM confirmed that a number of...

IRIN - March 15, 2012

JOHANNESBURG, 15 March 2012 (IRIN) - Africa’s third longest river, the Niger, is a source of water, food and energy for nine West African countries. But frequent droughts induced by a changing climate,...

Presidence Gabonaise - 4 mars 2012

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Bloomberg Businessweek - March 14, 2012

Gabon’s prime minister, Raymond Ndong Sima, is planning infrastructure investments to boost the central African nation’s economy for “sustained, inclusive and equitable” growth.

Projects...

African Development Bank - March 14, 2012

A group of more than 70 lawyers from west and central African lawyers attended a briefing on the working of the African Development Bank (AfDB) group in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 13 March ...

Eversheds - March 12, 2012

South Africa, the country that invented touchtone dialling, boasts an outstanding telecommunications infrastructure and a diversity of print and broadcast media. With a network that is 99% digital and...

China Daily - March 14, 2012

CAPE TOWN - South Africa on Tuesday called for international funding to help build a cross-border water project, which would benefit the country and Lesotho.

"We've got countries coming forward...