Infrastructure News

The agriculture and energy sectors in Nigeria are expected to benefit from an announcement that the Indorama Corporation plans to invest $1.8 billion (£1.1 billion) in new world-class fertilizer and Methanol...

France has just granted a loan of 129.6 million euros to Cameroon to finance part of the construction of a second bridge over the river Wouri, on a road leading to the port...

GCube, the insurance provider, and South African underwriter C&G have formed a partnership for new renewable energy projects in South Africa, Renewable Energy Focus has reported.

Fraser McLachlan, chief executive at GCube,...

On Saturday May 7, a hydroelectric power plant was inaugurated in Congo by the Congolese head of State, Denis Sassou Nguesso.

With a capacity of 120 megawatts, the power plant at Imboulou, on...

On Monday in Brazzaville, an audit contract was signed between the Fichtner Group and the Water, Electricity and Urban Development Project, as part of the reforms of the...

Kenya is hoping to secure over $1 billion (£606.7 million) in investment to improve the capacity of its sole crude oil refinery, it has been reported.

A top energy official from the country told Reuters that the investment...

Securing funding for renewable energy projects is vital if the sector is to expand in South Africa (SA), it has been claimed.

??The ability to attract finance and improve grid infrastructure are key in the big-scale deployment of...

A 1.4 million Euro agreement was signed last Friday between the French Development Agency (FAD) and the Organization for the Development of Senegal River (ODSR) to finance several...

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), an institution which is a member of the World Bank group, has just awarded an investment guarantee to support the ContourGlobal KivuWatt project,...

Last Tuesday, China signed a loan agreement with Cameroon for 540 million dollars for the realization of a hydroelectric dam project in the South of Cameroon.

This is the hydroelectric dam...

The vice-president in charge of the ministry of Energy, Idi Nadhoim, announced last Monday that India was going to grant a loan of 41.6 million dollars to finance an electrification project for the island...

The Senegalese head of State, Abdoulaye Wade, announced on April 28 that Senegal was rejecting nuclear power in order to concentrate on renewable energies.

He made the announcement at the inauguration...

A leading Kenyan energy firm has secured a Sh7.4 billion (£53.6 million) loan to finance the construction of a new 280-megawatt geothermal energy plant.

KenGen will receive the cash in a deal between Germany's...

Improvements in transport and energy are needed in order for Central Africa to realise its full growth potential.

It follows news that the African Development Bank (AfDB) said in a report that Central Africa has the worst...

Kenyan firms looking for finance for renewable energy projects and investments will be boosted by the news that a new fund has been set up to allow manufacturers easy access to funding.

The deal between Kenya Association of...

The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is to provide a 50 million euro package to the Société nationale d'électricité sénégalaise (SENELEC) to renovate its generating plants.

Dov Zerah, director of...

A project aimed at developing wind power in Tunisia has just been initiated by the Agence nationale pour la maîtrise de l'énergie (ANME) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP),

Headed "Private...

As part of plans to export electrical power to its African neighbours, the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has revealed that installation of power transmission lines that stretch to Sudan and Djibouti have been...

The construction of a high-voltage alternating current line at a cost of 24 million dollars started last Thursday at Thika, in Kenya.

This double line, 27 km long, links...

A biofuel production project in the province of Maputo, Mozambique, received funding last week of 20 million dollars from the Italian government, reports the Xinhua press agency.

Joao Alves,...