Infrastructure News

Internet use on mobile phones in Africa predicted to increase 20-fold

09/06/2014

Guardian.co.uk

Researchers say increase will take place in next five years and will be double the rate of growth in rest of world.

Africa's claim to be the "mobile continent" is even stronger than previously thought,...

Category: ICT

Keeping Africa going up

09/06/2014

Power's World

BLACK AFRICA long went deeply down. Now it is rushing headlong up. But 'up' brings problems of its own. A country's policy makers have to work as hard in successful, speedy, times as they did when they moved...

Category: Energy

Les Etats-Unis financent des projets énergétiques en Afrique

09/06/2014

APA

Le gouvernement américain a annoncé que des entreprises américaines avaient déboursé un milliard de dollars pour des projets énergétiques hors réseau en Afrique.

Selon cette annonce faite jeudi, les engagements comporteront...

Category: Energy

Afrique: Infrastructures - Dakar accueille une réunion des dirigeants africains et du secteur privé

09/06/2014

Un sommet des dirigeants africains et du secteur privé se tiendra les 14 et 15 juin à Dakar pour trouver les voies et moyens de financer les projets d'infrastructures du continent.

Cette réuni on est organisée sous l'égide du...

Category: General

Energie: un plan de déploiement de l'énergie en Afrique

09/06/2014

PANA

Les États Unis ont lancé un plan de déploiement 'agressif' de l'énergie en Afrique qui a pour cible 2 millions de m&e acute;nages, a annoncé mardi, le Secrétaire d'Etat américain chargé de l'Energie, Ernest Moniz. Le...

Category: Energy

WaterAid loue le leadership de l'AMCOW dans le règlement de la crise de l'assainissement en Afrique

09/06/2014

PANA

L'ONG internationale WaterAid salue le leadership du Conseil des ministres africains chargés de l'Hydraulique (AMCOW) pour trouver des solutions à la crise de l'accès à l'eau potable et à l'assainissement en Afrique,...

Category: Water

U.N. Climate Fund chief seeks $15 billion for projects in poor nations

09/06/2014

Orlando Sentinel

United Nations Green Climate Fund Executive Director Hela Cheikhrouhou is seeking to raise as much as $15 billion by the end of the year to start financing projects in poor countries.

There are no hurdles...

Category: General

US launches new initiative to boost energy in Nigeria, five other African countries

09/06/2014

Daily Independent

The U.S. has announced a new energy innovation tagged "Beyond the Grid'' to boost energy and address supply shortages in Nigeria and five other African countries.

The US Secretary for Energy, Ernest...

Category: Energy

Société : Des infrastructures pour favoriser l'émancipation des jeunes de Conakry

04/06/2014

Africaguinee.com

En partenariat avec le gouvernement guinéen, le groupe Bolloré Africa-Logistic a lancé dans la capitale guinéenne le projet 'Blueline Guinée' en vue de doter le pays d'infrastructures modernes tournées vers le...

Category: General

World Bank, AfDB, Others back Nigeria's Water & Sanitation with $638M

04/06/2014

Vanguard

As part of efforts to boost water supply and improve sanitation in the country, the World Bank, African Development Bank (AfDB), French Development Agency (FDA), and Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA), have...

Category: Water

Microsoft : AfDB in new deal to enhance ICT use in Africa

04/06/2014

All Africa

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced a partnership with Microsoft to invest $20 million as part of proposed measures to African governments to promote the use of ICTs.

The announcement was made last week...

Category: ICT

Afrique: Les Ambassadeurs Africains contents de leur croissance economique a deux chiffres

04/06/2014

Gabonews

Le Groupe des Ambassadeurs africains en France s'est réjoui cette semaine, lors de la célébration de la journée de l'Afrique en France dans le premier arrondissement de Paris, de la croissance économique à deux chiffres...

Category: General

W'Bank, French agency offer $243m for rural roads in four states

03/06/2014

Daily Independent

The World Bank and the French Development Agency have offered $243 million in grants for construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of rural feeder roads in four Nigerian states.

National Co-ordinator...

Category: Energy

How Solar Can Drive Economic Growth in Africa

03/06/2014

Solar Novus

Increasing solar energy supply in Africa could be the major driver in the continent's goal of achieving 5.2% economic growth in 2014 despite the low investment in the renewable energy technology.

The...

Category: Energy

Shiroro power plant concession not a mistake - Sambo

03/06/2014

Nigeria Business News

Vice President Namadi Sambo on Wednesday said recent developments at the Shiroro Hydro Power Plant had shown that its recent concession by the Federal Government was not a mistake.

A statement by his...

Category: Energy

Better late than never, Germany joins new scramble for Africa

29/05/2014

Reuters

German industry's representative in Angola, Ricardo Gerigk, has a tough job drumming up business in Luanda, the costliest city in the world for expats, where contracts tend to go to firms from China, Portugal and other...

Category: General

China's rise meets America's decline in Africa

29/05/2014

Aljazeera

Earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and South Sudan. Officials described his four-day tour of Africa as part of efforts "to encourage...

Category: General

Electrifying Africa now up to Chairman Menendez

29/05/2014

The Hill

Electricity expansion is the next big thing in U.S.-Africa relations. Boosting energy access is good for American business, good for American foreign policy, and transformative for millions of poor people-all at no cost...

Category: Energy

Nepad Calls for Partnership With AfDB to Drive Implementation of Regional Programmes

29/05/2014

All Africa

The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) seeks to fast-track implementation of continental programmes intended to drive Africa's transformation.
 


The NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency (NPCA),...

Category: General

L'Afrique manque d'eau potable

29/05/2014

BBC

Depuis lundi se tient à Dakar la semaine africaine de l'eau avec des responsables de sociétés de distribution d'eau et des officiels en provenance des 54 pays du continent.

Dans les faits, la majorité des pays africains...

Category: Water

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