Infrastructure News

Forbes

This piece is one of three articles on tackling global education, with a special focus on Africa, and is published in partnership with the Financial Times' This is Africa magazine.

Recently, I met two young men who will...

Ventures Africa

The Konza Techno City initiative was launched as part of the economic pillar of Kenya's Vision 2030 development plan, with this new "smart city" dubbed Africa's `Silicon Savannah'.

Many expect that...

BiztechAfrica

Made in Africa Foundation (MIAF) has partnered with African Development Bank (AfDB) to co-manage and market initiatives that will catalyse funding for Africa's largest infrastructure delivery vehicle...

JICA

The share of world exports represented by Africa has for decades been tiny, and today it is slightly above 3 percent.

Meanwhile, Asia's share has reached more than 20 percent, having more than doubled since 1990, according...

Government of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)

The second Power Africa Investment meeting will be held November 28-29, this year, in Addis Ababa.

The meeting is designed as an executive dialogue where senior-level international...

Les Echos.fr

Doté d'immenses réserves naturelles, le pays cherche à éviter la malédiction de la rente. 
Un pays africain, parmi les plus pauvres du monde, peut-il se transformer en quelques années en une puissance régionale...

The Herald

A critical element in these engagements is getting concrete support to further strengthen the AU-US partnership through the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed earlier this year. It also involves...

The South African Civil Society Information Service (Johannesburg)

As children throughout the United States head back to school, it's a good time to remember that schoolchildren throughout Africa often attend schools with no...

The New York Times

In Niger, government officials have fought a Chinese oil giant step by step, painfully undoing parts of a contract they call ruinous. In neighboring Chad, they have been even more forceful, shutting down the...

African Union

"It's really Africa's time to focus on development, investing in our people, and growing the economy. We feel that now is the time for our friends who have supported us all along to remain part of this growth....

Devex Newswire

Power lines in South Africa. The U.S. Export-Import Bank cannot be the financing cornerstone U.S. President Barack Obama's Power Africa initiative. Photo by: Gavin Fordham / CC BY-NC

EDITOR’S NOTE: The U.S....

Devex Newswire

The Icelandic International Development Agency (ICEIDA) has agreed a deal with the Ethiopian government which will see the North Atlantic nation launch geothermal surface exploration in Ethiopia as well as start...

Business Report

Forget 3G, that's old news. What about 4G and long-term evolution (LTE)? Using the pace at which the information and communications technology sector is innovating globally as a measure, even that will soon be...

The Standard

Renewable energy, which comes from resources that are continually replenished such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves and geothermal heat, could help plug a biting power supply shortage in Africa.

Many countries...

Pambazuka News

Black stories are in the form of service delivery protests, which are characterized by angry mobs stealing electricity, invading lands and tossing poo. Such stories don't engage Black politics in any meaningful...

NewsfromAfrica

The Republic of Tanzania received endorsement from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) of an investment plan which will help the country to scale-up the development of its abundant renewable energy resources.

The...

Brookings

Most sub-Saharan African countries have long had to rely on foreign assistance or loans from international financial institutions to supply part of their foreign currency needs. But now, for the first time, many of...

AFP

Le manque de crédits à la recherche agronomique en Afrique constitue l'une des entraves à l'avènement d'une «évolution verte » qui permettrait au continent de sortir 250 millions d'Africains de l'insécurité alimentaire,...

BBC Afrique

L'Union européenne (Ue) accueille lundi une conférence à Bruxelles sur un nouveau plan de développement pour la Somalie.

Le processus du nouveau plan de développement, qui a été approuvé lors d'une conférence sur...

MIT Technology Review

Mobile communications can help bridge a huge knowledge gap and reimagine healthcare across Africa.In a little over a decade, Africa has gone from a region with virtually no fixed-line telecoms...