Infrastructure News

Some Dh36.73 million (£6.1 million) has been set aside by the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) to rebuild a road in the Republic of Gambia.

The refurbishment of the 141km road, which runs between Mandinaba and Soma,...

Total Gabon has signed an agreement with the Gabonese government on the modernization of the airport of Port-Gentil, it was announced this week by Gabonese transport Minister Julien Nkoghe...

March 28: The European Union has granted 12 million euros in aid for an infrastructure project relating to the transport and generation of electricity in Djibouti.

It will "improve the...

Some $356 billion (£218 billion) worth of investment is needed for renewable energy projects in Africa between now and 2030, it has been suggested.

The World Energy Council Africa regional manager Dr Latsoucabe Fall has...

An additional 32 trains, worth $230 million (£141 million), are due to be purchased as part of an agreement between South African state logistics company Transnet and Venus Railway Solutions.

The type 15E locomotives are to...

The purchase of R97 billion (£8.8 billion) worth of new stock for Metrorail and long-distance railway services represents a "significant milestone" in passenger rail transport in South Africa.

This is according to...

Energy infrastructure in Africa looks set to get a boost after it was announced that the African Development Bank (AfDB) has created a $57 million (£35 million) fund for renewable energy projects across the continent.

The...

Graham Smith, coordinator of the project "Development corridor in the province of Lower Congo in the South West of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)", has announced that the total bill for...

Barth Nnaji, energy advisor to the president, has announced that Nigeria is committed to achieving electricity generation of 5000 Megawatts by the end of December 2011.

He made this announcement at...

Major spending is required in order to improve and maintain the MR3 Ngwenya-Manzini road over the next decade.

The Swazi Ministry of Public Works and Transport has revealed that E1 billion (£92 million) will be spent in the...

Increased trade from East Africa has prompted Tanzania and Uganda to jointly plan the development of a new railway line and ports on Lake Victoria.

The $2.7 billion (£1.67 billion) venture will see an 800km railway link a...

Thursday, March 31: The West African Development Bank (WADB) has approved eleven infrastructure projects with a total value of 185 million dollars.

The main ones are the project to construct...

Plans are afoot in Ethiopia to install a hydropower project by the River Nile.

The cost of the programme is believed to be around $4.7 billion (£2.9 billion) and it marks the first time the country has invested so heavily...

Three new refineries are to be built in Nigeria between 2011 and 2014, it was announced last Tuesday by the director of Refineries and petrochemical products of the NNPC, Philip...

South African construction company Group Five will develop a solar plant that will supply energy to the power utility firm Eskom.

The price of the project will come in at five billion South African rand (£455,000) and the...

The Angolan government wants to attain 80 per cent coverage for the supply of drinking water in the most remote areas of the country by 2012.

The announcement was made by Secretary of State for...

The minister for Energy and Mines, Mr. Youcef Yousfi, announced at the start of the week at the Popular National Assembly that the country would have its own nuclear power station within nine...

Work has begun on the Awoshie-Pokuase road and community development project in Accra, Ghana.

The cost of the development is $132 million (£82 million), with $83.6 million of the money coming from the African Development...

Last weekend in Algiers, the minister for Post and Information Technologies (TIC) organised a conference on the role of ICT companies in the creation of jobs.

Moussa Benhamadi announced that...

Construction on the 300MW Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) project in Kenya will start before the end of the year.

There have been setbacks in the development, but a letter of support has now been received from the Kenyan...