Infrastructure News

Construction work to build a railway line across Botswana has been scheduled for 2012, it has been revealed.

Chief executive officer of Walvis Bay Corridor Group Johny Smith told Reuters that the transport scheme to construct the...

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 has approved plans for a transport initiative to go ahead in Uganda.

Last week, the group's board of executive directors gave the go-ahead for additional financing for the Transport Sector Development...

South Africa (SA) has confirmed an air traffic deal with Cameroon, which could see a boost to its transport industry.

Business Day reported that SA transport minister Sibusiso Ndebele agreed to open the skies with his Cameroon...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted a loan of 85 million dollars to support the West African Development Bank (WADB) in a number of development projects in West Africa.

In a press release...

The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa has signed loan agreements to a total value of 34 million dollars with Burundi, Ethiopia, Zambia and Malawi to finance a number of infrastructure...

Plans to upgrade South Africa's transport infrastructure have been welcomed by unions in the country, but concerns have been raised surrounding the length of time the refurbishments are expected to take.

The Federation of...

Last weekend, work started on renovating the main highways in the region of Louga, Senegal, reports the newspaper Le Soleil.

The Senegalese State has financed this program to the value of 25...

Massive investment is needed in South Africa's ageing rail, road and maritime infrastructure, the nation's transport minister has claimed.

Sibusiso Ndebele believes that finance totalling R200 billion (£18 billion)...

Improvements to Uganda's agricultural infrastructure are likely to come about as a direct result of a new loan agreement with the African development Bank (AfDB).

AfDB has signed an agreement with the nation's government...

The World Bank (WB) has granted Morocco a loan of 100 million euros to finance a new urban development policy throughout the Kingdom.

The agreement was signed last Wednesday in Rabat, by the...

East Africa has the potential to become one of the best investment destinations in the world, with a number of infrastructure projects expected to make it more desirable to financiers.

One such project is the East African...

Two Chinese enterprises have been selected by the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to carry out works on rehabilitating and modernizing two airports.

The signature...

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,...

The Congolese Minister for Energy and Water, Bruno Jean Richard Itoua, announced last Monday that the Congo aimed to attain 90 percent access to electricity by 2015.

The government will concentrate on...

Some $71 million (£44 million) has been loaned by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) to the National Road Fund Agency (NRFA).

The cash will be used to finance the upgrading of five major roads in Zambia to tarmac...

The West African Development Bank (WADB) has granted a loan of 11.3 million dollars to Benin in order to contribute to the funding of a road infrastructure project.

This is the project to...

Rural infrastructure in Uganda is set to be improved following the approval of a $64.8 million (£39.6 million) loan to the country.

Offered by the African Development Fund, the cash will be used to improve the quality of...

The first section of the tramway in Morocco was inaugurated last Wednesday, in the presence of King Mohammed VI.

It will link the cities of Rabat and Salé. Forty four tramways,...

Work on the construction of the first phase of the hydroelectric dam at Kandadji, on the river Niger, will start on 23 May.

"The Nigerian government has already released more than 2...