Infrastructure News

The Bank received from the Governments of the Republic of Rwanda and Republic of Burundi, an invitation to witness the official launching ceremony of the One stop border post which took place on Wednesday 17th July 2013 at Ruhwa.

AfricaInvestor

African institutions have endorsed the African Development Bank (AfDB) 'Africa50Fund' an innovation vehicle for financing infrastructure development on the continent.

'Africa50Fund' is an initiative by AfDB to...

NewNet

The African Development Group (AfDB) has provided financing for a new geothermal energy project in Lake Assal, Djibouti. The project has been established as a public-private partnership, according to ESI-Africa, with the...

Pana

Rising from their meeting in Tunis over the weekend, African institutions endorsed AfDB's Africa50 Fund as Africa's vehicle to facilitate large-scale mobilization of resources and unlock international private financing...

abidjan.net

D'ici à six ans, la Chine pourrait octroyer dix milliards de dollars de prêts à la Côte d'Ivoire pour financer de grands projets d'infrastructures.

Selon Albert Mabri Toikeusse, ministre chargé du Plan et du...

Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Présidente de la Commission de l'Union africaine (CUA), Carlos Lopes, Secrétaire exécutif de la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l'Afrique (UNECA) et Donald Kaberuka, Président du Groupe de la...

nytimes.com

President Obama's "Power Africa" initiative, unveiled during his recent trip there, has the potential to make a major impact on a continent where millions of people - including more than two-thirds of those...

Smart Energy

The latest thought leadership report produced by Clean Energy Pipeline is based upon the analysis of 140+ responses that Clean Energy Pipeline received for their survey on African renewable energy.

This report...

The Standard

Financing of regional infrastructure projects including the US$2,8 billion Batoka Gorge hydro-electricity power plant will be up for discussion when three pan-African institutions meet in Tunis this week.

The...

Smart Energy

A new project supported by the African Development Group plans to exploit the geothermal potential in the Lake Assail region to enable Djiboutian population's access to a reliable, renewable and affordable source of...

Sidwaya

Selon l´Organisation des Nations unies, la consommation industrielle d'eau devrait doubler d'ici à 2025, en raison des délocalisations et du développement des industries dans les pays en voie de développement.

Des...

AFP

Le groupe public d'électricité sud-africain Eskom a annoncé lundi que sa nouvelle centrale à charbon géante de Medupi (nord) ne serait connectée au réseau qu'au secon d semestre 2014, alors que le pays peine à répondre à la...

The Knowledge@Wharton Network

As the developed world struggles with decisions concerning fossil fuels and their availability and cost, businesses in Africa and globally have started to think more about how extensive the...

Sierra Express Media 13/07/2013

For the fifth time the African Development Bank  was a co-organizer of the Africa Carbon Forum (ACF) along with UN agencies, the World Bank and the International Emissions Trading As...


CampdenFB (UK)

The need for widespread access to electricity in Africa presents a big opportunity to investors - will they follow Obama's example? Marie-France Mathes, managing director and head of Investor Relations at...

The Witness

In a new BBC World News series, Rendezvous with Zeinab Badawi, presenter Zeinab Badawi meets leading African entrepreneurs, musicians, politicians and chief executive officers to ask the social, cultural, political,...

bloomberg.com

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will take a group of state governors and key ministers to China next week, seeking to strengthen ties with the Asian nation in everything from power production to bond...

nation.co.ke

Africa's leaders have become more assertive in global affairs than ever before. This assertiveness is impelled by China's meteoric rise as a global power, concreting the multi-polar world order. A recent survey...

newvision.co.ug

"Implementation, implementation, implementation," were the closing words from Diarietou Gaye, the World Bank country director for Eritrea, Kenya and Rwanda at last week´s key regional infrastructure...

huffingtonpost.co.uk

Can Obama's 'Power Africa' Initiative Double Access to Electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa? Following in the footsteps of his two presidential predecessors, Obama unveiled his signature Africa initiative:...