Infrastructure News

La Côte d’Ivoire, la Sierra Leone, le Libéria et la Guinée ont adopté un projet de traité concernant l’interconnexion des réseaux électriques locaux lors de la...

Le Ministre de l’Energie nigérian a déclaré que des investissements à hauteur de 100 milliards USD étaient nécessaires à la production et à la distribution de 40 000...

Government officials in the Nigerian capital city of Lagos have announced that they are to fund vital infrastructure projects through taxation of road users, This Day has reported.

Ayodele Adewale, the chair of the Amuwo-Odofin...

Voice of America - March 6, 2012

Gabon has launched a rigorous initiative to revamp the energy sector to meet investors’ demands as well as the needs of the population, said Patrick Rodrigue Yalis Ongala, the director of...

Business Daily Africa - March 6, 2012

Kenya last year attracted the highest amount of private equity funding for infrastructure in East Africa, with the country getting more than half the number of the deals, a survey carried...

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 7, 2012

South Africa’s Water Research Commission (WRC) is moving ahead with a comprehensive new study of the country’s water resources, including its groundwater resources, in a bid...

National Geographic - March 6, 2012

On February 29, United Nations officials announced that the crucial March through May rainy season in the Horn of Africa would likely fall short again this year.  The warning comes on the...

Christian Science Monitor - March 6, 2012

Last week, the World Bank announced that developing countries appear to have already met their goal of cutting global poverty rates in half by 2015. China was the driving force behind...

Business Ghana - March 6, 2012

Madam Jasqueline Nnam, Knowledge Sharing Officer of Africa Adapt (AA), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has called on stakeholders to come together to share ideas on climate change to...

Voice of America - March 7, 2012

Tens of thousands of people in South Africa took part in protests Wednesday against so-called e-tolling on highways and to demand that labor brokers be outlawed. The protests were called by the...

allAfrica.com - March 7, 2012

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Honourable representatives of government, comrades

We, as representatives of COSATU wish to convey to you our total opposition...

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 6, 2012

The first of a number of tenders for the Rustenburg local municipality’s (RLM’s) R3-billion Rustenburg Rapid Transport (RRT) project, which is aimed at providing transport to...

EAC Secretary General meets East African local government authorities / Urges leaders to stop arbitrary levying of local taxes on goods, business people, transporters along the transport corridors and transits highways

The Nigerian federal government has announced an innovative plan to generate power for potentially thousands of people in the country.

Professor Barth Nnaji, the Nigerian minister of power, revealed that there are plans afoot to...

Slate Afrique - 5 mars 2012

Envoyer de l’argent aux parents restés au pays sans le remettre à un particulier ou se faire plumer par les sociétés traditionnelles de transfert de fonds. Une idée géniale qui séduit de plus en...

Africa Review - March 5, 2012

Among the current economic news in Tanzania is the announcements of oil and gas discoveries in various parts of the country. The latest announcement of gas discovery is by the Norway’s...

afriqueinfos - 3 mars 2012

BRAZZAVILLE (Xinhua) - La 28ème session du Comité intergouvernemental des experts (CIE) de l'Afrique centrale, a appelé vendredi à Brazzaville, les chefs d'Etat africains de la sous-région, à...

Les Dépêches de Brazzaville - 5 mars 2012

La 28e session du Comité intergouvernemental d'experts (CIE), tenue du 29 février au 2 mars au Congo, a abouti à la publication d'une déclaration dite de Brazzaville

Au terme des...

allAfrica.com - March 5, 2012

Leading market analysts and industry regulators have described Nigeria's economic growth rate as exceptional, in spite of its huge infrastructure deficit, at a time of slow growth across...

Bloomberg Businessweek - March 6, 2012

Timely, Cost-Conscious Completion of Projects to Spell Success for Infrastructure Development Companies

Namibia will see significant growth across a number of infrastructure sectors over...