Infrastructure News

This is Africa - March 5, 2012

African governments once rushed into signing bilateral investment treaties to encourage FDI. Lawyers are now calling for new models

With much of Africa’s investment coming from abroad, how ...

Barclays - 2 April 2012

Africa is a region of opportunity for UK businesses and British goods and services have an excellent reputation across the continent, but the potential of the region is far from being realised by...

Manchester Evening News - 11 April 2012

UK companies need to do more to take advantages of opportunities to win customers among the growing African middle classes, according to a new report.

A Barclays survey of UK companies...

South Africa.info - 11 April 2012

South African state transport and logistics company Transnet has announced the details of a R300-billion investment in infrastructure that it says will create over half-a-million new jobs...

La Banque africaine de développement (BAD) va contribuer au financement de deux projets d’assainissement dans le centre du Maroc, rapporte l'agence de presse PANA.

La banque va mobiliser environ 70 pourcent du coût total des...

African Development Bank - March 2012

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Creamer Media - 10 April 2012

Creamer Media's Mariaan Webb speaks to Engineering News editor Terence Creamer about the latest version of the Industrial Policy Action Plan.

Watch this video by Creamer Media in ICA General...

BBC news - 9 April 2012

Portugal has agreed to give up its remaining stake in a giant hydroelectric dam in Mozambique, ending a long-running dispute.

Portugal, the former colonial power, had retained control of the Cahora...

BBC news - March 5, 2012

Cashew nut growers are no longer cheated out of income by middlemen when they use mobile phones to get the latest price information from the world's major buyers - India and Vietnam.

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allAfrica.com - 8 April 2012

Maputo — The Mozambican government and the African Development Bank (ADB) are working on the final details of the contract to fund the second phase of the rehabilitation of the Lower Limpopo...

Media Terre - 9 avril 2012

Le premier forum international de l'électricité du Cameroun (Finelec) s'est déroulé à Yaoundé du 28 mars au 1er Avril 2012, avec pour objectif de faire le point sur la libéralisation du secteur de...

This is Africa - 31 March 2012

With more than 500 million subscribers across the continent inching the mobile voice market towards saturation, mobile technology companies are increasingly looking to data services as a means of...

allAfrica.com - 5 April 2012

London — At the end of March, Gateway Communications invited a panel of people and a selected industry audience to look at the "Future of African connectivity". With the exception of a...

allAfrica.com - 8 April 2012

Addis Ababa — The Ethiopian Roads Authority has signed contract agreements to construct 20 road projects during the first 8 months of this Ethiopian fiscal year, the Authority said.

Communications...

allAfrica.com - 5 April 2012

THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) announced that three tollgates would be built along the Plumtree-Mutare highway over the next three years. Two permanent gates would be...

allAfrica.com -8 April 2012

Ethiopian Airports Enterprise (EAE) got the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) certification for Bole International Airport two weeks ago.

This makes the airport one of the few in...

blogs.worldbank.org - 4 April 2012

Suppose all of Kenya’s borders suddenly close. Goods and people can no longer enter or exit the country through the port of Mombasa, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport or roadways. Quickly...

Vanguard - 10 April 2012

Sustainable development of cross boarder mobile money services in Africa requires partnership in which industry stakeholders, policymakers, and regulators cooperatively share information, says African...

NASDAQ - 9 April 2012

(RTTNews.com) - Wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy Ltd. said it had been selected as the preferred supplier by Cennergi (Pty) Ltd., for a 138 MW wind energy project currently under development in...

Daily Monitor - 10 April 2012

Endowed with enduring natural diversity, great climate, rich cultures and receptive people, East Africa is one of Africa’s leading tourism destinations. Recently, US based New York Times recently...