Actualités sur les infrastructures

AllAfrica.com (Rwanda Focus): The global competitiveness report has warned that an unhealthy workforce along with poor infrastructure will hurt Rwanda's competitiveness ambitions.

According to the report, "The greatest...

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Business Day Live (South Africa): INDEPENDENT regulators of economic infrastructure should be able to penalise anticompetitive behaviour by firms and state-owned enterprises, many of which are monopolies, the Development Bank...

Creamer Media's Engineering News: Africa’s economic potential as the next leading source of global economic growth could remain unfulfilled if the barriers to international and inter-regional trade were not addressed, Trade...

Creamer Media's Engineering News: International renewable-energy company Mainstream Renewable Power – which advanced to the preferred-bidder stage for South African wind and solar projects involving a combined 238 MW of...

Jeune Afrique (AFP) : Après avoir lancé la première tablette tactile africaine fin janvier, le Congolais Vérone Mankou, 27 ans, a lancé jeudi à Brazzaville le premier smartphone made in Africa, en promettant un tarif...

Projet de la Banque africaine de développement : Objectif sectoriel : Assurer durablement l’approvisionnement en eau potable et l’assainissement des zones rurales en vue d’améliorer les conditions de vie et de santé des ...

Banque africaine de developpement : Le Port de Dakar est un des ports les plus importants d’Afrique de l’Ouest. En vue d’améliorer les installations portuaires, une concession de 25 années a été signée entre l’Etat du ...

Banque africaine de developpement : L’agglomération de Dakar représente 0.3 % du territoire national, abrite 25% de la population et concentre 80% de l’activité économique du pays. Pour résoudre le problème de mobilité urbaine...

AllAfrica.com - Electricity demand has increased sharply a month after the multi-million dollar Bujagali Hydropower Project delivered 250 Mega Watts (MW) to national grid.

Until late July this year, power demand during peak...

Jeune Afrique - La Banque africaine de développement (BAD) compte lancer prochainement un emprunt obligataire de 22 milliards de dollars pour financer des infrastructures (routes, ports, aéroports...) dans ses États membres....

The Botswana Gazette - Five investors have expressed interest in the development of the $223 million power transmission inter-connector project to link Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia (ZiZaBoNa).

According to a...

Jeune Afrique - Au premier semestre 2012, la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a prêté quelques 800 millions de dollars au Maroc pour aider le pays à mener à bien son ambitieux plan d'investissement dans les énergies...

The FINANCIAL -- The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reinforced its commitment to African aviation and called on industry and government leaders in Central West Africa to work together to make aviation an even...

Foreign Policy

Africa is no longer the "lost continent" of popular imagination. The region has been growing rapidly for over a decade, the private sector is expanding, and a new class of consumers is wielding...

By Richard Mills

Infrastructure is the physical systems – the roads, power transmission lines and towers, airports, dams, buses, subways, rail links, ports and bridges, power plants, water delivery systems, hospitals,...

Engineering News

Telecommunications group Vodacom has installed two hybrid base stations in the Vleiland Valley farming community in the Western Cape.

The community, which is situated between two mountains and previously ...

African Development Bank

Over the first half of 2012, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has been demonstrating its commitment to support the scaling up of renewable energy in Africa with the approval of US $800 million in...

African Development Bank

The potential to grow intra-African trade is significant and, while it has more than doubled over the past five years, it remains a disappointing figure, Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African...

African Development Bank

Backed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), Niger has received approval from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) for US $22 million to support its Water Resources Mobilization and Development ...