Infrastructure News

AllAfrica.com - Electricity demand has increased sharply a month after the multi-million dollar Bujagali Hydropower Project delivered 250 Mega Watts (MW) to national grid.

Until late July this year, power demand during peak...

Jeune Afrique - La Banque africaine de développement (BAD) compte lancer prochainement un emprunt obligataire de 22 milliards de dollars pour financer des infrastructures (routes, ports, aéroports...) dans ses États membres....

The Botswana Gazette - Five investors have expressed interest in the development of the $223 million power transmission inter-connector project to link Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia (ZiZaBoNa).

According to a...

Jeune Afrique - Au premier semestre 2012, la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a prêté quelques 800 millions de dollars au Maroc pour aider le pays à mener à bien son ambitieux plan d'investissement dans les énergies...

The FINANCIAL -- The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reinforced its commitment to African aviation and called on industry and government leaders in Central West Africa to work together to make aviation an even...

Foreign Policy

Africa is no longer the "lost continent" of popular imagination. The region has been growing rapidly for over a decade, the private sector is expanding, and a new class of consumers is wielding...

By Richard Mills

Infrastructure is the physical systems – the roads, power transmission lines and towers, airports, dams, buses, subways, rail links, ports and bridges, power plants, water delivery systems, hospitals,...

Engineering News

Telecommunications group Vodacom has installed two hybrid base stations in the Vleiland Valley farming community in the Western Cape.

The community, which is situated between two mountains and previously ...

African Development Bank

Over the first half of 2012, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has been demonstrating its commitment to support the scaling up of renewable energy in Africa with the approval of US $800 million in...

African Development Bank

The potential to grow intra-African trade is significant and, while it has more than doubled over the past five years, it remains a disappointing figure, Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African...

African Development Bank

Backed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), Niger has received approval from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) for US $22 million to support its Water Resources Mobilization and Development ...

CAPE TOWN, September 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Governance technologies developed by Global Voice Group (GVG) for telecommunications regulators enable emerging and developing countries to set up efficient and innovative funding...

The Citizen

Arusha. Kigoma and Rumonge ports in Tanzania and Burundi respectively may get funding from the African Development Bank (AfDB) for their upgrading plans, according to the East African Community (EAC) ...

AllAfrica.com

Minister of Electricity and Energy Eng. Mahmoud Balbaa said that a plan was prepared to implement a comprehensive program for the rehabilitation and renovation of the national network for the transmission of ...

WORLD WATER WEEK 26-31 AUGUST 2012 Stockholm, Sweden

Theme: Water and Food Security

The Water Platform of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) will join other high-profile African water organizations next week in...

African Development Bank

The African Water Facility (AWF), in collaboration with New Partnership for Africa’s Development – Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPPF), hosted a meeting recently to launch the...

Creamer Media's Mining Weekly.com

South Africa’s National Development Plan 2030 calls for efforts to be made to substitute coal with gas in the country’s energy mix, including developing shale gas resources “provided the...

Proactive Investors Australia

African Energy Resources (ASX: AFR) has defined an initial Measured Resource for its Sese Thermal Coal Project in Botswana of 651 million tonnes following resource modelling by the company’s...

L'Union européenne  a octroyé un financement de 31,95 millions d'euros (39,8 millions USD) au Kenya afin d'améliorer les infrastructures de transport du pays, a annoncé la Commission...

The Oben gas power plant will be shut down intermittently for two weeks in order to complete a scheduled upgrade operation, owner Seplat Petroleum Development Company Limited said to Nigerian newspaper This Day.

In a statement...