Infrastructure News

$165m to be spent on Rift Valley railway infrastructure project

05/08/2011

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced it will spend $40 million in order for a railway infrastructure project in East Africa to go ahead.

This financing from the AfDB forms part of $165 million being put into the Rift...

Category: Transport

Gabon: ETDE signs contract for electrification project

05/08/2011

The company ETDE (Energy Technology Data Exchange) announced last Wednesday in Libreville that it had signed a contract with the Gabonese ministry of Energy for the construction of a...

Category: Energy

Algeria to generate 22,000 MW from renewable energies by 2030

04/08/2011

The Gas and Electricity Regulatory Commission (Creg) has just published a press release which reveals that 22,000 megawatts of electricity will be generated by Algeria by 2030 from...

Category: Energy

Standard Bank to help cross-border infrastructure project

04/08/2011

Standard Bank has confirmed it will give financial support to a cross-border infrastructure project between South Africa and Zimbabwe.

It will pay for the South African Infrastructure Investment Company's debt in order to...

Category: Transport

80,000 Rwandans sign up to mobile banking as demand for internet rises

03/08/2011

There is growing pressure for African nations to improve their ICT infrastructure, after 80,000 people in Rwanda signed up to mobile banking in one week.

BPR Mobile Banking registered this number of new customers after a campaign...

Category: ICT

WADB grants 22 million USD to Burkina Faso for road rehabilitation project

03/08/2011

A loan agreement for 22 million dollars was signed last Thursday between the West African Development Bank (WADB) and the government of Burkina Faso, relating to the financing of a road...

Category: Transport

JICA grants Morocco 200 million euros for infrastructures

03/08/2011

Morocco has just received two loans totaling about 286.5 million dollars from the Japanese international Co-operation Agency (JICA), intended to finance drinking water supply and rural road projects.

The...

Categories: Water, Transport

Electrical interconnector for Ghana-Burkina Faso planned for 2014

02/08/2011

The Burkinabé minister for Energy has just announced that the electrical interconnector project between Burkina Faso and Ghana will become operational by 2014 at the latest, reports...

Category: Energy

SA asks investors for proposals on green energy plants

02/08/2011

South Africa (SA) has called for investors to come forward with proposals on renewable energy plants in an attempt to boost its green infrastructure.

The nation's Department of Energy advertised for bids to build its first...

Category: Energy

European gift of 30 million euros for water in Algeria

01/08/2011

Last Tuesday in Algiers, the European Union and Algeria signed a financing agreement to the value of 30 million euros for the Algerian water sanitation program (Eau II).

This...

Category: Water

Seacom's ICT trial for 500Gb/s network proves successful

01/08/2011

Seacom has revealed its ICT project to trial five 100Gb/s optical transmissions in an attempt to boost South Africa's communications infrastructure has been successful.

Together with US digital optical networking equipment...

Category: ICT

Nigeria spends $450m a year to improve ICT connections

01/08/2011

Nigeria invests more than $450 million (£274.8 million) a year into its ICT infrastructure, it has been revealed.

The nation's minister for science and technology Ita Ewa stated that it spends the money on importing...

Category: ICT

Survey shows Nigeria, Kenya and SA top Africa's ICT markets

29/07/2011

South Africa (SA), Kenya and Nigeria have been found to be the three African nations that are topping ICT markets in the continent. The Africa Business Panel released findings from a survey showing that their technology...

Category: ICT

Orange and Google launch chat via GSM in Africa

29/07/2011

Last Wednesday American company Google and French telephone operator Orange signed a strategic partnership agreement to develop ICT all over Africa.The aim is to offer the...

Category: ICT

Angola receives more foreign investment than other African nations

28/07/2011

Angola was the beneficiary of more foreign direct investment (FDI) than any other African country in 2010 for its infrastructure development. Macau Hub has revealed that the nation received $9.9 billion (£6.06 billion)...

Category: General

WB supports road infrastructure project in Liberia

28/07/2011

The World Bank has just granted a loan facility of 250 million dollars to Liberia to finance a vast road rehabilitation project.

The minister of Finance, Augustine Ngafuan, who signed...

Categories: Transport, Energy

World Bank approves development grant for Burkina Faso

27/07/2011

The World Bank has announced it will give a grant to Burkina Faso in order to help the country develop and improve its infrastructure. It revealed that the group's Board of Executive Directors approved the Burkina...

Category: General

Countries in the Great Lakes region want infrastructure cooperation

27/07/2011

The countries in the Economic Community of the Great Lakes (CEPGL), Burundi, Rwanda and DRC, met last Monday and Tuesday in Bujumbura to strengthen their cooperation, especially in the domain...

Categories: Water, Energy

SA to set up transport unit to boost infrastructure investment

26/07/2011

South Africa (SA) is to establish a body to organise investments into the country's transport infrastructure. Lwazi Mboyi, head of special projects at the Department of Transport, said the group will be set up by the end of...

Category: Transport

Mozambique and Botswana agree to rail transport project

26/07/2011

An agreement has been made for a transport infrastructure project to allow Botswana to gain greater access to the Indian Ocean through Mozambique.  The two nations intend to invest in the initiative to connect...

Category: Transport

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