Infrastructure News

Voice of America - March 7, 2012

Tens of thousands of people in South Africa took part in protests Wednesday against so-called e-tolling on highways and to demand that labor brokers be outlawed. The protests were called by the...

allAfrica.com - March 7, 2012

To be delivered to representatives of government in every Province

Honourable representatives of government, comrades

We, as representatives of COSATU wish to convey to you our total opposition...

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 6, 2012

The first of a number of tenders for the Rustenburg local municipality’s (RLM’s) R3-billion Rustenburg Rapid Transport (RRT) project, which is aimed at providing transport to...

EAC Secretary General meets East African local government authorities / Urges leaders to stop arbitrary levying of local taxes on goods, business people, transporters along the transport corridors and transits highways

The Nigerian federal government has announced an innovative plan to generate power for potentially thousands of people in the country.

Professor Barth Nnaji, the Nigerian minister of power, revealed that there are plans afoot to...

Slate Afrique - 5 mars 2012

Envoyer de l’argent aux parents restés au pays sans le remettre à un particulier ou se faire plumer par les sociétés traditionnelles de transfert de fonds. Une idée géniale qui séduit de plus en...

Africa Review - March 5, 2012

Among the current economic news in Tanzania is the announcements of oil and gas discoveries in various parts of the country. The latest announcement of gas discovery is by the Norway’s...

afriqueinfos - 3 mars 2012

BRAZZAVILLE (Xinhua) - La 28ème session du Comité intergouvernemental des experts (CIE) de l'Afrique centrale, a appelé vendredi à Brazzaville, les chefs d'Etat africains de la sous-région, à...

Les Dépêches de Brazzaville - 5 mars 2012

La 28e session du Comité intergouvernemental d'experts (CIE), tenue du 29 février au 2 mars au Congo, a abouti à la publication d'une déclaration dite de Brazzaville

Au terme des...

allAfrica.com - March 5, 2012

Leading market analysts and industry regulators have described Nigeria's economic growth rate as exceptional, in spite of its huge infrastructure deficit, at a time of slow growth across...

Bloomberg Businessweek - March 6, 2012

Timely, Cost-Conscious Completion of Projects to Spell Success for Infrastructure Development Companies

Namibia will see significant growth across a number of infrastructure sectors over...

The first green data centre in South Africa has been launched by Dimension Data, the information technology services firm.

According to Dimension, the overarching purpose of the new data centre, known as the Randview, is to...

allAfrica.com - March 5, 2012

Luanda — The Zambian Foreign minister, Given Lubinda, said Friday in Luanda that the rehabilitation of the Angolan railways will help develop the economic and social environment in the countries...

RTT news - March 5, 2012

(RTTNews) - India's largest integrated private power utility firm Tata Power Co. Ltd. said its subsidiary Khopoli Investments Ltd. and South Africa-based firm Exxaro Resources Ltd. formed a 50:50 joint...

allAfrica.com - March 4, 2012

Internet disruptions will be no more following new guide lines issued by the government obliging all telecom operators and internet service providers (ISP) to offer diversity of internet bandwidth...

allAfrica.com - March 5, 2012

Efforts to exploit geothermal reserves for electricity generation appear to gather more steam with drilling of the first exploration wells in Karisimbi scheduled to commence in August.

And if the...

mybroadband - March 4, 2012

Small towns are reaping the benefits of having free internet access, whilst large metropolitan cities appear to be lagging behind.

Stellenbosch residents will soon be able to access wireless...

radio france internationale (English) - March 4, 2012

The construction of Lamu Port in Kenya has been officially launched by Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki, South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister...

rfi - 3 mars 2012

Nouvelle hausse record du prix de l’eau et de l’électricité au Burundi depuis le 1er mars, la deuxième en six mois dans ce pays classé parmi les plus pauvres au monde. En dépit de la grogne de la population...

allAfrica.com - March 2, 2012

London — For over a decade, Africa's ICT entrepreneurs have struggled to make sense of how to innovate and make money on a continent that was largely connected to the outside world by satellite...