Infrastructure News

Rwanda: Arrival of Qatar Airways Expected to Boost Trade

23/03/2012

allAfrica.com - March 22, 2012

Excerpts: Qatar Airways yesterday made its maiden flight to Rwanda

The Kigali-Doha route, via Entebbe in Uganda, is one of the latest routes by the giant airliner to be operated by an Airbus A320...

Category: Transport

Managing water resources from space

23/03/2012

European Space Agency - March 22, 2012

Excerpt:

Today is World Water Day, and satellite observations are indispensible for monitoring our water resources. ESA’s TIGER initiative is supporting Africa in monitoring precious...

Category: Water

South African Water: Greater intervention needed to tackle acid mine drainage

23/03/2012

Mining Weekly - March 23, 2012

An airborne radiometric survey of the West Rand and Far West Rand basins was carried out by parastatal science council the Council for GeoScience on behalf of the DWA and found that many of the...

Category: Water

South Africa: Clever thinking needed to deal with water supply issue

23/03/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 23, 2012

I read a report in a local newspaper about South Africa’s water supply situation. The article contained a really dumb statement made by the journalist who wrote the article. He...

Category: Water

Somaliland: The World’s Next State?

23/03/2012

New York Times - March 19, 2012

Excerpt:The state power utility only reaches a fraction of the 1.2 million who live in Hargeisa, and the rest is provided privately at great expense. Piped water is also scarce, and secondary...

Categories: General, Water, Energy

African innovations - Homegrown advancements drive Africa's tech revolution

23/03/2012

Al Jazeera English - March 22, 2012

Across Africa, developers and programmers are coming up with new technologies from mobile banking to mapping software and medical tablets to cloud storage. Now the continent is increasingly...

Category: ICT

South Africa: First ever PV Plants Map South Africa unveiled

23/03/2012

Renewable Energy World.com - March 20, 2012

Researchers at PV Insider have completed work on the PV Plants Map South Africa 2012, which details the size and location of 18 PV projects that successfully won bids in the first...

Category: Energy

Is East Africa the ‘New Frontier’ for Oil and Gas Exploration?

23/03/2012

AFRIbiz - March 20, 2012

One conclusion drawn from the annual ‘Africa Oil Week’, held in Cape Town, South Africa, between 31 October and 4 November 2011, was that the East African region holds great potential for investment...

Category: Energy

Energy giants Statoil and Exxon target East African gas

23/03/2012

BBC News - March 19, 2012

Excerpts:

Statoil and its American partner Exxon Mobil have made the biggest offshore discovery yet of gas reserves off the coast of Tanzania.

The Zafarani field, which both companies hope will be...

Categories: Energy, Transport

Potential Energy: Tapping Africa’s Renewable Resources

23/03/2012

Yale Global online - March 19, 2012

In the developed world, fossil fuels like oil have become synonymous with economic growth. The African continent, however, tells a different tale. The cost of importing oil has led to...

Category: Energy

South African Department of Energy to Host African Utility Week in Johannesburg in May (Press Release)

23/03/2012

PR.com - March 22, 2012 

Johannesburg, South Africa: The Department of Energy will once again support the annual African Utility Week conference and exhibition as host ministry. The event, which runs from 21-24 May at...

Category: Energy

ECOWAS Bio-energy Forum Opens in Bamako, Mali (Press Release)

23/03/2012

AFRIbiz - March 22, 2012

BAMAKO, Mali, March 20, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A three-day ECOWAS Bio-energy Forum is underway in the Malian capital, Bamako as part of efforts to support the...

Category: Energy

South Africa: Green Leasing Offers Benefits to Owners, Tenants

23/03/2012

allAfrica.com - March 22, 2012

Green leasing, which sees building owners and tenants introduce sustainable practices into building operations to mutual advantage, has taken off internationally. In South Africa, however,...

Categories: Water, Energy

South Africa: Basil Read eyes big energy growth as it submits solar bid

23/03/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 22, 2012

Construction group Basil Read confirmed on Thursday that it, together with partners, had submitted a solar photovoltaic (PV) bid under the Department of Energy’s second...

Category: Energy

Samsung sees smartphones leading Africa growth

23/03/2012

Reuters - March 22, 2012

Samsung Electronics Co aims to double its share of the sub-Saharan smartphone market to 20 percent by next year, as it focuses on affordable handsets, the head of its Africa business said on...

Category: ICT

Europe's Cash Push For Solar in North Africa

23/03/2012

Forbes - March 22, 2012

The European Commission put its first operational weight behind funding solar energy efforts across the Southern Mediterranean this month with the announcement that they would now offer up funding for...

Category: Energy

South Africa’s nuclear bill

23/03/2012

Mail & Guardian online - March 23, 2012

The six new nuclear reactors envisaged in South Africa's energy road map are likely to cost between R322-billion and R712-billion to build and finance, but the total could spiral ...

Category: Energy

Carnegie Mellon University to invest in East Africa ICT sector

23/03/2012

Africa Review - March 21, 2012

A university based in the United States, which has just established a regional centre in Rwanda, will largely aim to spearhead the development of science and technology in East Africa.

The ...

Category: ICT

Cote d'Ivoire: 31 milliards USD pour les infrastructures dans le domaine de l'énergie et des mines

23/03/2012

Le gouvernement ivoirien a identifié 170 projets d'infrastructures dans le secteur des mines et de l'énergie qui vont nécessiter un investissement de 31 milliards de dollars sur les 20 prochaines...

Categories: Water, Energy

Ile Maurice: 60 mégawatts supplémentaires sur le réseau dès la fin du mois de juillet

23/03/2012

L'Ile Maurice bénéficiera d'une alimentation supplémentaire de 60 mégawats d'ici la fin du mois de juillet, a déclaré le président du conseil d'administration de la...

Category: Energy

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