Infrastructure News

Le Cameroun et Joule Africa viennent de signer un protocole d’entente pour permettre la mise en place d’un projet hydroélectrique dans le pays.

D’une valeur d’un milliard USD (762 millions...

The next stage of the trans-national Bujumbura-Rusizi-Karongi-Rubavu highway looks set to go ahead after funding for the project was agreed between the Rwandan government and the OPEC Fund for International Development, the New...

Jeune Afrique - 11 mars 2012

L'Afrique reste le continent dont l'accès à des ressources en eau de qualité est le plus limité, les Américains du nord sont toujours les plus gros consommateurs tandis que l'Asie-Pacifique ...

New Vision - March 13, 2012

WITH the current hindrances to the flow of trade within the East African Community (EAC), there is a need to strengthen partnerships between private and public sectors to improve the region’s...

ABNDigital - March 7, 2012

As African countries continue to increase and upgrade their infrastructure, sea ports are set to attract huge investment over the medium term. To get a sense of the opportunity, ABN's Wole Famurewa ...

allAfrica.com - March 12, 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.

During the...

NTV Kenya - March 13, 2012

Construction work to rid the port of Mombasa of inefficiencies is nearing completion. This follows a progress report issued by the Kenya Ports Authority chief executive Gichiri Ndua, who says the...

NTV Kenya - March 12, 2012

Youtube video - from IGAD Horn of Africa Conference, with Alex Rugamba, Director of NEPAD, Regional Integration and Trade Department of the the African Development Bank.

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Afrinnovator - March 12, 2012

While capital has flowed rapidly to satisfy the needs of the largest and — thanks to the microfinance boom – the smallest African companies, SMEs have fallen into a “missing middle.” SMEs in the ...

Ration Magazine - March 12, 2012Capital for Africa Prospects for East Africa as a PE destination are promising. The continent experienced a significant influx of private equity interest in 2011. According to our data, private...

Techzim - March 12, 2012

By Arnold Matimba

I recently attended the NEPAD Business Foundation Implementing ICT Projects in Africa Workshop and the Zimbabwe Investment and Trade Conference. It was interesting to note that the...

Worldfolio

For South Africa, ICT has pushed progress ahead rapidly in the past two decades, helping to level the playing field between urban and rural areas and enabling the country to better compete at a global level.

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The World Bank has announced ambitious plans to bring about a dramatic improvement in broadband connectivity in countries across North Africa.

To this end, the Bank said that it will ensure that it brings utilities' fiber...

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 12, 2012

Commercial bank Absa has partnered with French development finance institution Agence Français de Developpmente (AFD) to offer R400-million worth of loan financing to...

Al Jazeera English - March 12, 2012

Ethiopia is pursuing a massive dam building project that it hopes will generate alternative sources of power, but critics have said the endeavour will be an environmental disaster.

The...

South Africa.info - March 12. 2012

South Africa and Lesotho will show off their jointly managed Lesotho Highlands Water Project - one of the biggest engineering projects of its kind in the world - at the world's biggest...

Sunday news - March 10, 2012

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s energy regulator said on Friday last week it had cut the increase in electricity rates for power utility Eskom to 16 percent for the 2012/13 financial year from a...

Reuters - March 12, 2012

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Monday it would loan Kenya 21.8 billion shillings to finance the construction of roads and energy projects in east Africa's biggest...

Government of Ghana - March 9, 2012

Vice President John Dramani Mahama yesterday inaugurated Ghana’s section of the Abidjan-Lagos corridor road project at Akatsi in the Volta Region.

The upgraded Akatsi- Agbozume, Akatsi- ...

Le Fonds koweitien de développement économique a accordé un prêt de cinq milliards de FCFA au Niger, le 8 mars dernier, afin d’aider à l’aménagement du tronçon...