Infrastructure News

Reuters Africa | February 10, 2012

Tanzania has signed a 50 million euro ($66.5 million) loan facility with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to upgrade regional airports to boost tourism and air transport in east Africa's...

Bloomberg Business Week | February 10, 2012

South Africa is ramping up spending on railways and roads to lure mining investment as the government fights off calls from within the ruling African National Congress to...

Le ministre des finances du Zimbabwe, Tendai Biti, a annoncé que près de 110 millions de dollars vont être octroyés au financement de plusieurs projets d’infrastructures prioritaires tels que...

Le Chef d’Etat Gabonais, Ali Bongo Ondimba, a dévoilé lundi dernier un nouveau plan national de développement des infrastructures.

« Ce sont environ 12 000 milliards de FCFA (242,5 milliards USD)...

Transnet, the state-owned transport business, has announced plans to spend 300-billion rand in a bid to improve the transportation of natural materials around the country.

The news has been confirmed by Jacob Zuma, the South...

European Commission Joint Research Centre | February 8, 2012

The JRC has published a study mapping the potential of renewable energy sources in Africa. The report analyses the continent's current energy consumption and...

Invest AD report written by the Economist Intelligence Unit

According to a recent Invest AD-Economist Intelligence Unit survey, many global institutional investors intend to take their first significant step into Africa in the...

Reuters | February 6, 2012

In response to investors' questions regarding methodology for assessing the credit quality of rated South African infrastructure companies, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has published a...

Abby Wakama, Publisher and Executive Editor for ITNewsAfrica.com, was discussing cloud's future on the continent in the build-up to presenting at the Cloud Computing World Forum Africa, to be held in Johannesburg on 8th May...

IT News Africa |  February 6, 2012

Nigerian carrier services provider Phase3 Telecom and Dancom Technologies have announced their partnership deal boosting broadband services in the country.

They said in a joint press...

African Development Bank  |  February 3, 2012

Approximately 750,000 people in three Darfur states will have improved access to water supply and sanitation through a €3.3 million African Water Facility grant approved by...

African Development Bank | February 2, 2012

Lack of political will is slowing down implementation of vital regional infrastructure projects in Africa, the president of the African Development Bank has said.

Addressing the...

Les Echos (Maroc) 05/02/2012 par Mohamed RAMDANI

Le programme de reconversion des systèmes d'irrigation de la région Doukkala-Abda en systèmes d'irrigation localisée s´inscrit au titre du Programme national d'économie d'eau en...

Plusieurs experts se sont réunis pendant plus de dix jours à Kinshasa afin de définir les nouvelles stratégies du secteur eau potable et électricité en RDC sur la période...

The Lereko Metier Sustainable Capital Fund (LMSC), a private equity fund that invests money in renewable energy in southern Africa, has revealed that it has attracted investment from a number of leading development banks.

The...

Les services de géolocalisation par satellite (GPS), qui ne sont actuellement accessibles qu'aux entreprises,  devraient bientôt être disponibles au grand public en Algérie.

C'est le...

La Banque Ouest-Africaine de Développement (BOAD) a accordé 17 milliards de FCFA (34 millions de dollars) au Niger afin de financer la construction d’une centrale électrique dans la région de...

Over the next 12 months, the Altech Group, the owner of Kenya Data Network, has revealed that it intends to invest an impressive 830 million shillings to create five satellite data centres within east Africa.

The overarching...

Le coût de ses besoins en infrastructures pour les 10 prochaines années en Afrique serait de 60 milliards de dollars, selon un document publié mardi par l'Union africaine (UA) à l'issue de son...

Le gouvernement du Botswana vient d'annoncer son intention d'allouer 50 millions de pulas (6,82 millions USD) afin d'améliorer ses infrastructures internet et augmenter la capacité de la bande passante...