Infrastructure News

Seacom announces $15 million to improve African internet access

19/04/2011

Internet access across Africa is set to be boosted with news that Seacom has launched a $15 million (£9.1 million) Internet Protocol (IP) platform which allows direct routing between African countries through a single...

Category: ICT

Huge development project launched in Egypt

19/04/2011

Tuesday April 12: Egyptian prime minister, Essam Charaf, has announced the launch of the "development corridor".

The huge development program, extending over 1,200 km from Alexandria to Aswan,...

Categories: Water, Transport

Indian investments in Mozambique to reach $1 billion by 2013

18/04/2011

Indian investment in Mozambique has been forecast to rise to $1 billion (£614 million) by 2013, it has been revealed.

With investments totalling $64.17 million in energy, mineral resources, agro-industries, transport and...

Categories: Transport, Energy

National strategy for sanitation in Mauritania in 2011

18/04/2011

Mauritania is about to implement a national sanitation strategy. A workshop on this subject has been underway since last Wednesday.

Mauritanian Minister for Water Resources and Sanitation, Mohamed Aboyé, explained to the...

Category: Water

New rail track between Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe

18/04/2011

A protocol of agreement was signed last Friday between the governments of Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

It concerns the construction of a new rail track between the three countries of southern Africa, reports...

Category: Transport

US firms awarded MCC contract in Tanzania

15/04/2011

Two US firms have been awarded a significant proportion of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact with Tanzania.

Symbion Power and Pike Electric have been named as the two companies who will be installing nearly 1,600...

Category: Energy

Malawi set for energy boost with US funding

14/04/2011

Energy infrastructure in Malawi looks set to receive a boost after it was announced that the US government plans to invest $350.7 million (£215 million) in improving the southern African country's energy sector.

The...

Category: Energy

$14.2 billion needed for infrastructure improvements in Zimbabwe

14/04/2011

Zimbabwe needs about $14.2 billion (£8.7 billion) to rehabilitate the existing infrastructure in the country.

This is according to African Development Bank (AfDB) president Donald Kaberuka, who claimed that the investment...

Category: General

South Africa invests 3.8 billion dollars in renewable energies

14/04/2011

Ebrahim Patel, South African minister for Economic Development, announced last Tuesday that South Africa is to invest 3.8 billion dollars over five years in a renewable energy...

Category: Energy

IDC to invest billions in South African renewable energy

13/04/2011

South Africa's renewable energy industry is set to be one of the main beneficiaries of the Industrial Development Corporation's (IDC) new five-year investment plan.

The self-financed, state-owned national development...

Category: Energy

Shell signs a contract for 101 million USD for a gas pipeline project in Nigeria

13/04/2011

Shell has just signed a contract valued at 101 million dollars for the construction of a gas pipeline in Nigeria.

The contract was concluded with local company Saipem Contracting Nigeria...

Category: Energy

PIC plans investment in African energy and infrastructure markets

12/04/2011

The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) plans to invest about R45 billion (£4 billion) in Africa this year to take advantage of growth opportunities in the continent.

According to the firm's chief investment officer,...

Category: Energy

Algeria wants to generate 20,000 MW of electricity from clean energy sources by 2030

12/04/2011

The Algerian government announced April 3 that it aims to generate 20,000 MW of electricity from renewable energies by 2030.

This program will need an investment...

Category: Energy

Benin aims for 50 percent rural electrification from renewable energy by 2025

12/04/2011

Benin's minister for Energy, Sacca Lafia, announced last Thursday that the government intended to raise the rural electrification rate from renewable energy from its present three percent to 50 percent...

Category: Energy

AfDB to fund Sierra Leone energy project

11/04/2011

Some €25 million (£22million) is to be loaned by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to fund the Addax Bioenergy Sierra Leone (ABSL) project.

Included in the project are plans to develop a Greenfield sugarcane...

Category: Energy

WB finances fiber optic Internet in Congo

11/04/2011

The World Bank has announced that it will finance the submarine fiber optic cable project, the African central Backbone (CAB), in Congo.

This cable will make it possible to establish a reliable...

Category: ICT

MTN invests millions in improving Africa's internet access

08/04/2011

Internet access across Africa's is set to be boosted by the introduction of a 14,000km ultra-high capacity fibre optic submarine cable system which links Southern Africa and Europe.

Named the West Africa Cable System (Wacs),...

Category: ICT

Algeria: The president inaugurates new drinking water project at Tamanrasset

08/04/2011

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has just inaugurated a project to supply the Tamanrasset region with drinking water.

The water is pumped into the artesian layer at a distance of more...

Categories: Water, Transport

BG Group to invest in Tunisian oil and gas production

08/04/2011

The BG Group has revealed its plans to invest some $300 million (£180 million) in Tunisia this year.

Reuters reports that the British-based oil and gas firm plans to increase its exposure in the North African country by...

Category: Energy

ICT investment to rise 9.9% in Africa

07/04/2011

New research has indicated that investment in Information Communication Technology (ICT) in sub-Saharan Africa will climb 9.9 per cent this year.

According to research conducted by the International Data Corporation (IDC),...

Category: ICT

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