Three new refineries in Nigeria by 2014 Three new refineries are to be built in Nigeria between 2011 and 2014, it was announced last Tuesday by the director…

Solar plant to be built in South Africa's Northern Cape South African construction company Group Five will develop a solar plant that will supply energy to the power utility firm Eskom. The price of…

Angola to increase access to drinking water in rural areas The Angolan government wants to attain 80 per cent coverage for the supply of drinking water in the most remote areas of the…

Nuclear power station for Algeria in 2020 The minister for Energy and Mines, Mr. Youcef Yousfi, announced at the start of the week at the Popular National Assembly that the…

Road project begins work in Ghana 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…

Algeria: New measures announced to promote ICT development Last weekend in Algiers, the minister for Post and Information Technologies (TIC) organised a conference on…

Lake Turkana Wind Power gets go-ahead in Kenya 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…

AFD finances gas project in Tunisia 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…

Burundi: Germany to invest 43 million euros in drinking water The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Burundi promised, at the World Water Day assembly, that his country was…

Nigeria: Gas project to create 500,000 jobs The implementation of a vast gas project by the government of Nigeria is to create more than 500,000 jobs. This announcement was…