Infrastructure News

African Development Bank - March 15, 2012

Over 100 Members of Parliament (MPs) from 40 African countries have agreed to step up efforts to improve the business environment on the continent by reviewing legislation linked to...

allAfrica.com - March 16, 2012

HARARE City Council has secured US$100 million from the Development Bank of Southern Africa for water and sewer upgrading. The money is expected to improve water and sanitation delivery in...

PBS News Hour - March 15, 2012

Two journalists investigate the challenges of bringing the most basic necessity to the people of Ghana and Nigeria: clean, safe water. As part of a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on...

La Commission Nationale d’Urbanisme a signé un accord de 3,5 milliards de nairas (16.5 millions d’euros) avec le gouvernement allemand afin d’aider les secteurs des énergies renouvelables et de...

IBM, the US-based technology giant, has presented Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, with a grant of $400,000 to help the city to make significant upgrades to its transportation systems.

To this end, IBM confirmed that a number of...

IRIN - March 15, 2012

JOHANNESBURG, 15 March 2012 (IRIN) - Africa’s third longest river, the Niger, is a source of water, food and energy for nine West African countries. But frequent droughts induced by a changing climate,...

Presidence Gabonaise - 4 mars 2012

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Bloomberg Businessweek - March 14, 2012

Gabon’s prime minister, Raymond Ndong Sima, is planning infrastructure investments to boost the central African nation’s economy for “sustained, inclusive and equitable” growth.

Projects...

African Development Bank - March 14, 2012

A group of more than 70 lawyers from west and central African lawyers attended a briefing on the working of the African Development Bank (AfDB) group in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 13 March ...

Eversheds - March 12, 2012

South Africa, the country that invented touchtone dialling, boasts an outstanding telecommunications infrastructure and a diversity of print and broadcast media. With a network that is 99% digital and...

China Daily - March 14, 2012

CAPE TOWN - South Africa on Tuesday called for international funding to help build a cross-border water project, which would benefit the country and Lesotho.

"We've got countries coming forward...

The African News Journal - March 13, 2012

Nairobi, Kenya — Members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) have petitioned development partners to finance key infrastructure projects in the Horn of Africa....

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 15, 2012

Following several calls by government for households to reduce their daily energy consumption and alleviate pressure from the electricity grid, the South African Bureau of...

IOL Business Report - March 15, 2012

In another signal that South African authorities are warming to the need to exploit local reserves of shale gas, the National Planning Commission said yesterday that it saw natural gas...

Reuters - March 14, 2012

Kenya's energy regulator warned on Wednesday it may raise energy prices in the coming months after lifting the cost of petrol and kerosene for the first time since November, complicating the central...

National Geographic - March 13, 2012

It's long been established doctrine in international development circles that diesel engines are the most cost-effective tools for pumping water and powering villages.

But Robert Freling...

L’ambassadeur de l’Union Européenne, Jean-Michel Dumond, et le Ministre des Finances de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC), Matata Ponyon Mapon ont signé, le 13 mars dernier, cinq...

Over the next 12 months, as much as R2.8 billion could be spent in the province of Mpumalanga to make major infrastructure improvements, which could help to stimulate the local economy.

The new round of finance for these...

The first Water Platform Meeting of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) was held from 8-9 March 2012, to identify challenges and opportunities in the financing and implementation of Transboundary Water Resource and...

Les travaux de construction du périphérique de Maputo, au Mozambique, commenceront en juin prochain. Ils devraient se terminer d’ici à 2014, rapporte AllAfrica.

Le projet coûtera 315 millions USD...