ONAS aims to involve local areas in waste water management in Senegal ONAS, the Senegal National Office of Cleansing and Drainage, is seeking to establish a partnership arrangement with the…

Which African countries are best equipped in NTIC? The United Nations Commerce and Development Conference submitted a report on Thursday 19 November 2009 on NTIC in Africa. Gabon featured in first…

New Niger State ICT park 'will create thousands of jobs' A new information and communication technology (ICT) park in Niger State will provide thousands of jobs for people in the region. Some 975…

Babalola: Infrastructure development should be decentralised Nigerian finance minister Remi Babalola has suggested decentralising infrastructure projects. In his paper entitled Infrastructural…

Liberia presses for accelerated transport development President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has highlighted the need for accelerated progress on transport infrastructure projects. She called…

Dam to overcome thirst in Kenya A dam project on the River Mwache in Kenya is due to be completed by 2012. With a capacity of 205,000 cubic metres of water per day, it will serve 1.5 million people…

Huge upgrade project for commercial port in Algeria A project unveiled this week by the Algerian Government aims to triple the capacities of the commercial port of Béjaïa between now and 2025. This…

Rwanda's "food basket" to get better highway connection A region known as Rwanda's food basket could stand to benefit from the rehabilitation of a 115-kilometre road network connecting it to the…

Ethiopia hydropower plant 'will fix shortage problems' Shortages in power supply in Ethiopia are to be tackled with the opening of a new hydropower plant in Tekeze, reports the Sudan Tribune. The…

Cameroon: 216 MW power station planned for 2011 A gas-fired power station is going to be constructed in Cameroon, at Kribi, in the west of the country. The means of financing have now been…