Infrastructure News

Global campaigning organisation ONE has recommended that a greater level of investment is put into Africa's development. A spokesman for the organisation said the group has called upon the G20 High Level Panel to place more...

Tanzania is to borrow $250 million (£153.21 million) in order for it to pursue infrastructure projects.

Earlier today (Monday August 8th), the East African nation signed a loan agreement with several financial institutions...

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)...

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...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has revealed that infrastructure constitutes 70 per cent of all its operations in Rwanda. Resident representative Negatu Makonnen told government delegates and country portfolio performance...

The World Bank has launched a programme in an attempt to improve Uganda's rural infrastructure.

It will work together with Centenary Bank to boost the country's agriculture finance capacity.

The World Bank Agriculture...

During the 2011 fiscal year, the World Bank gave developing countries more than $57 billion (£35.6 billion) in support.

The financial institution has today (July 1st) released new figures showing its financial aid and...

The natural resources found in Africa could help the continent continue to develop and improve its infrastructure.

According to the World Bank's Shantayanan Devarajan and Marcelo Giugale, the commodity boom in Africa may...

The financial support given to Southern Africa by the African Development Bank (AfDB) has grown considerably over the last few years. According to a report published yesterday (June 27th 2011), the group increased its loan and...

Senegal is to receive financing of almost 28 million dollars from the German cooperation agency, the KfW, as a contribution to the financing of several infrastructure, decentralization and local...

The board of directors of the OPEC Fund for international development (OFID) announced last Sunday that it will provide a package of 56 million dollars in the form of loans and six million in...

The World Bank is to grant 75 million dollars to South Sudan to contribute to the financing of infrastructure, health and employment projects, reports a press release from...

India is to provide Africa with lines of credit amounting to a total of some five billion dollars by 2014, it was learned this week.

These funds will be earmarked to help governments reach their development goals,...

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...

France has announced its intention to make a sum of 150 million euros available to Tunisia to finance a project to extend the natural gas network in the regions in the North-West...

African infrastructure projects will benefit from World Bank investment.

A new policy is being launched that will replace the Africa Action Plan and it will have a wider remit than its predecessor, the East African reports.

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Last Monday, China granted a 500 million dollar loan to Zimbabwe to finance a number of projects in a multitude of sectors, including tourism, health, education, agriculture,...

A "comprehensive" infrastructure development plan has been drawn up for Zimbabwe by the African Development Bank (AfDB).

It is hoped the project will help to improve the country's economic fortunes by creating jobs...

Major spending is required in order to improve Africa's energy infrastructure, one expert has claimed.

Emmanuel Nzabanita, manager of the energy finance division for eastern and southern Africa at the African Development Bank...

Regional integration needs to be examined as a tool for growth in southern Africa, one expert has claimed.

African Development Bank (AfDB) president Donald Kaberuka said he was happy with the progress being made by the Southern...