Infrastructure News

MTN awarded Benin Republic and Cote d'Ivoire licences for broadband investment

30/03/2012

MTN, one of Africa's leading communications providers, has been awarded a universal licence in Benin Republic and a 3G licence in Cote d'Ivoire, with both set to lead to large infrastructure investments. The firm will be...

Category: ICT

Zimbabwe shortlists bids for enlarging power plants

29/03/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 28, 2012

Zimbabwe has short-listed eleven bidders for the expansion of its Hwange and Kariba South power plants, with a winner expected to be announced in the third quarter of this...

Category: Energy

A New Approach to a New Africa- Transcript of Speech by Tony Blair

29/03/2012

The South African.com - March 28, 2012

Below is the speech made by Tony Blair at the The Times CEO Summit Africa, 19 March 2012

“Without doubt Africa is on the move. Just consider the following: in eight of the past 10...

Category: General

The Good And The Bad Of Kenya's First Oil Strike

29/03/2012

National Public Radio (US) - March 28, 2012

For the first time, oil has been discovered in the East African nation of Kenya. The country's energy minister quickly held a news conference. Holding up a bottle of crude, he...

Category: Energy

South Africa - Real Economy Report 195 - illegal water use & economic implications (video)

29/03/2012

Creamer media - March 28, 2012

The Real Economy Report from Creamer Media in Johannesburg:The Department of Water Affairs has recently closed in on some farms in the Vaal dam area for illegal water use. Megan Wait...

Category: Water

South Africa: Pros & Cons of Shale Gas (video)

29/03/2012

ABNDigital - March 28, 2012

The South African economy is highly dependent upon electricity production for its industrial commercial and domestic energy needs. Large shale gas deposits could augment primary energy supplies to...

Category: Energy

Zimbabwe: 'Infrastructure, Maintenance Spending Constrained'

29/03/2012

allAfrica.com - March 29, 2012

ZIMBABWE'S current spending on infrastructure maintenance is significantly below par. African Development Bank (Zimbabwe) lead economist Mr Damoni Kitabire told the Herald Business that the...

Category: General

BRICS urged to support African infrastructure development

29/03/2012

cntv - March 27, 2012

JOHANNESBURG, March 27 (Xinhua) -- A South African government agency on Tuesday called for the BRICS group to participate in the African infrastructure development program, financing and potentially even ...

Category: General

Fossil fuels to remain dominant in Africa’s energy mix

29/03/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 27, 2012

Fossil fuels will continue to dominate Africa’s energy mix in the next three to five decades, but their depletion should be envisaged in the second half of the century, World...

Category: Energy

Boom time for Mozambique, once the basket case of Africa

29/03/2012

The Guardian - March 28, 2012

The shells of stylish colonial-era buildings, like shipwrecks on the ocean floor, still give Maputo a distinct character. But the capital of Mozambique no longer feels like an urban museum. Amid...

Category: General

Cameroon secures $107 mln loans for hydro project

29/03/2012

Reuters - March 28, 2012

Cameroon has reached financing agreements totalling 52.89-billion CFA francs with two regional banks for the construction of the Lom Pangar hydroelectricity project, a decree signed by the government...

Categories: Water, Energy

South Africa: Telkom network revamp to ‘bring broadband home’

29/03/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March

Telecommunications group Telkom on Wednesday embarked on its last, and most challenging, step of its network transformation project.

The company installed Africa’s first multi...

Category: ICT

Gap between Africa’s perceived, actual risks spells opportunity

29/03/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 28, 2012

The prevailing gap between Africa’s actual risk and its perceived risk was offering material opportunities for those willing to invest in the continent, which was home to six...

Category: General

Easing border bottlenecks will boost intra-African trade, says new AfDB report

29/03/2012

African Development Bank - March 28, 2012

Africa’s numerous border and customs posts, with the associated bureaucracy and long delays, continues to hold back trade and economic growth on the continent, reports a new study from...

Category: Transport

CANARAIL strengthens its position in East Africa's economic development

29/03/2012

Canada Wire - March 28, 2012

Press release - MONTREAL: CANARAIL announced the signing of a contract worth over $4M, funded primarily by the African Development Bank, through the Rwanda Transport Development Agency (RPPA),...

Category: Transport

Ocampo hopes to open World Bank leadership to all

29/03/2012

Reuters Africa - March 29, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonion Ocampo knows he faces a tough battle to head the World Bank but he hopes his bid will pave the way for developing...

Vodacom May Lose Control of Congo Unit Amid Dispute

29/03/2012

Bloomberg - March 28. 2012

Vodacom Group Ltd. (VOD) may lose control of its wireless unit in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a court ordered its shares be confiscated to settle a $21 million dispute with a consultant....

Category: ICT

Anglo Sees Coal Prices Curbed, consider mines in South Africa & Mozambique

29/03/2012

Bloomberg - March 28, 2012

Power-station coal prices may not rise much above $100 a metric ton on average this year, said the head of thermal coal at Anglo American Plc (AAL), which operates the Cerrejon mine with BHP Billiton...

Category: Energy

China offers to Overhaul Guinea's Infrastructure

29/03/2012

allAfrica.com - March 29, 2012

Officials from the China Development Bank (CDB) are offering to finance a substantial part of the Conakry government's US$8.6 billion overhaul of mining and industrial infratructure, according to...

Categories: General, Transport, Energy

US: In Colloquy, Senators Discuss Legislation to Increase American Exports to Africa

29/03/2012

allAfrica.com - March 28, 2012

Washington, DC — U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and John Boozman (R-Ark.) spoke on the Senate floor Tuesday evening about legislation they introduced last week that...

Categories: Water, General, ICT

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