Climate change 'could worsen lack of water security' Efforts must be made to ensure water remains a priority when people are making decisions over the state of the environment. This is according to…

CEEAC gets high speed Internet By May 2011, the ten regional capitals of Cameroon will be interconnected by optical fibres providing high-speed Internet access. The…

New gas pipeline in Africa The West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) is now supplying gas to Ghana. The first deliveries, on 20 March, followed 28 years of work and negotiations.…

Rio Tinto and Chalco invest in the mining sector in Guinea Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto has entered into a joint venture with the Chinese company Chalco to exploit an…

ICT 'to be introduced to Ghana farmers' Information and communications technology (ICT) in Ghana will be developed in order to extend it to rural communities, it has emerged. Computer…

Two new communication satellites in orbit The Ariane-5 ECA rocket has just launched two telecommunication satellites destined for Africa. Rascom-QAF1R will replace Rascom-QAF1 and…

"Trans-boundary transport infrastructure" topic at PIDA meeting Representatives from a number of countries recently met to discuss how transport infrastructure could help deliver the objectives of…

Africa's ICT discussed at World Bank youth forum Harnessing the power of information and communications technology (ICT) in youth engagement programmes was one of the issued discussed during a…

Solar power stations in Senegal Senegal is developing solar energy so that it will no longer be dependent on fossil fuels. President Abdoulaye Wade has announced the construction…

Explosion in mobile Internet use in Africa Mobile Internet use in Africa is growing all the time. According to the Norwegian navigator Opera, the number of single users…