Infrastructure News

Malango (Mayotte)

La BAD (Banque africaine de développement) a accordé, le 11 septembre, 20 millions de dollars à l'Union des Comores pour renforcer la fourniture en énergie électrique du pays dans le cadre d'un Projet d'appui...

WorldStage

The Comoros Energy Sector Support Project will receive grants totaling US $20.1 million to finance the rebuilding the country's electricity sector. The financing source is mobilized from the Bank's resources: (i) US...

Sierra Express Media

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group will support Guinea's Conakry Electricity Network Rehabilitation and Extension Project (PREREC2) with a loan and a grant totaling US $16.66 million approved by its...

PR Newswire

Thousands of the world's government representatives, water experts and industry leaders gathered in Stockholm from September 1-6, 2013 for World Water Week. With water cooperation on the agenda, participants have...

Capital FM (Nairobi)



The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) will return to normal operations within the next four months.
 


Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) acting MD Lucy Mbugua says the newly constructed parking...

Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)

TANZANIA has received endorsement from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) for an investment plan that will help government scale-up the development of its abundant renewable energy...

PR Newswire

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed an Exchange of Letters on September 13, 2013, in Tunis. The Exchange of Letters was signed by the AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka,...

Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)

The African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) has warned that a Green Revolution cannot materialise in Africa without concerted effort to secure financing for agricultural production.
 


The...

The New York Times

A Sept. 3 column by Joe Nocera tries to contrast my views with those of Jeffrey D. Sachs ("Fighting Poverty, and Critics"), but I take issue with Mr. Nocera's characterization of the conclusions of...

BFM TV

Ingenico annonce un partenariat stratégique avec Tagattitude, leader sur le marché des solutions de 'mobile money'. Ce partenariat porte sur le développement de l'inclusion financière en Afrique.
 


Ingenico propose...

PR Newswire

Frequency coordination negotiations have succeeded in setting up the mechanism to deploy digital television in 47 Sub-Saharan African countries.
 


The consolidation of national plans to implement the digital...

AlertNet



How climate change may affect farmers and food security in southern Africa depends on a range of crop, climate and economic models, which have been brought together in a new book designed to help policymakers...

Green Business Guide

South Africa has 16 wind energy projects that have been given the go-ahead or are under construction, ranging in size from 20.6 MW to 138 MW and totalling 1,296.5 MW of generation capacity.

South Africa’s...

All Africa

Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza pledged on Saturday that the government will continue to seek funding for a dam at Mapai, in the southern province of Gaza, that will help control the flow of the Limpopo...

Business Day Live

VICTORIA FALLS - Zimbabwe and Zambia have signed a bilateral agreement that paves the way for the creation of a second one-stop-shop border post between the two countries at the Victoria Falls border post. A...

All Africa

Nairobi - The private sector has long been a participant in global humanitarian work, providing cash and material donations. But private enterprises are increasingly becoming directly involved in relief work,...

Noodls

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of Djibouti on Monday, August 26, signed the funding agreements, totalling US $7.5 million, for a geothermal exploration project in the region of Lake ...

Ouestaf.com

Un financement intégral de 300 millions de dollars (environ 150 milliards de francs CFA) a été complété; pour l'acquisition de la centrale électrique d'Ughelli, au Nigeria, par Transcorp Plc, dans le cadre de...

New Vision


With the national budget now estimated at sh12 trillion shillings this 2012/13 FY, one of the sectors that has benefited most from this growth is the roads and transport sector. Not only has the sector been garnering...

News24 Nigeria

Abuja - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan said on Monday that bidders for state electricity assets had completed payments, clearing a major hurdle in a privatisation scheme meant to end the country's chronic...