New infrastructure projects in Senegal Senegal and South Korea have announced their intention to co-operate in the infrastructure sector, in particular by way of a project involving the construction…

Mauritius to construct refineries using €15m EIB loan Mauritius is to use a €15 million (£13.1 million) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to construct two sugar refineries. The…

Uganda gets $190m for road improvement Uganda has received a loan of $190 million (£118.9 million) from the World Bank to improve its transport sector. Kundavi Kadiresan, the bank's Uganda…

KPLC: Regional cooperation key for achieving sustainable energy The managing director of Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) has said that regional cooperation would be key to achieving…

Senegal: More than 270 million USD to improve access to drinking water Senegal Prime Minister Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye has announced the mobilisation of 271.6 million Dollars to improve access to…

Kenya to get 300 MW of wind power on national grid The Lake Turkana Wind Power project consortium (LTWP) will supply the Kenya Power Lighting Company with 300 MW following what is said to be the…

$ 1.3 million to improve highway movement in the Ivory Coast The World Bank has granted 112,000 Dollars to the Ivory Coast in order to promote ease of movement on highways across the country, with a…

Plans for Uganda-Sudan-Kenya road network rehabilitation 'underway' Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has said that plans to tarmac roads connecting the country to southern Sudan and Kenya were…

New bypass project could end Kenya's ferry chaos The Kenyan government is discussing a plan to build a bypass linking Mombasa Island to the south coast, which it says will have the effect of…

MOU for African Financing Partnership signed by AfDB The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the African Financing Partnership (AFP). President of the…