Infrastructure News

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...

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...

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...

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...

Modernization and restructuring works on the airport at Port-Gentil in Gabon are to start Friday August 5.

In Libreville on July 20, Minister of Transport Julien Nkoghé Békalé signed several...

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...

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...

The Prime Minister of Chad, Emmanuel Nadingar, said last Wednesday that the operation "Chadian State  6% net 2011-2016 bond", issued on May 24 2011, is a "success" and that the...

An electric railway in Mozambique linking the capital Maputo to local towns - potentially in operation by 2013 - could boost transport in the region. According to Maputo-based news organisation Agencia de Informacao de...

The maritime industry in Togo could be boosted by the approval of a €60 million (£52 million) loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to fund the construction of a transhipment container handling terminal. It...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has agreed to show its support to the Rift Valley Railways (RVR) transport infrastructure project by providing a loan worth $40 million (£24.85 million). This will help the $246 million...

Last Wednesday, France and Cameroon signed a financing agreement in the order of 142.4 million dollars for a road infrastructure project.

It involves the construction of a second bridge...

The National Electricity Company of Senegal (SENELEC) is to receive a loan of 85 million dollars from the French Development Agency (AFD).

Last Monday, an agreement was signed in Dakar. This...

Mozambique has just received a gift of 40.2 million dollars from the World Bank to finance the completion of the works on three sections of the national highway 1, linking the North to the south of the...

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...

Work will begin soon on a transport infrastructure development in order to aid an iron ore project in West Africa. Sundance Resources has confirmed that it will begin construction of rail networks and a port at its Mbalam iron...

June 26: The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a finance agreement totaling 163 million Euros with Tunisia to co-finance a road modernization program.

The aim is to improve the...

A transport project in East Africa has been given an investment boost of $30 million (£18.29 million). The World Bank has agreed to additional financing for the East Africa Trade and Transport Facilitation Project. Its...

The African Development Bank (ADB) could grant up to 617 million dollars to Tanzania over the next three years as part of a new five-year development strategy, reports the Xinhua press...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has confirmed a loan to help pay for a highway in Tunisia to show its continuing support for the country's transport infrastructure expansion.

A fund of €137.34 million (£122.04...