Actualités sur les infrastructures

Fair Observer

African start-ups can bring affordable energy solutions to millions of people around the continent.
 


"The Dallas Cowboys Stadium uses more power than the entire country of Liberia." Let that sink...

Deutsche Welle

The new BRICS development bank and reserve fund launched this week are intended to provide an alternative to existing Western-led institutions. Africa hopes for aid to make infrastructural improvements.

At a...

L'Opinion

Pour Donald Kaberuka, le président de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), le retard pris dans le domaine de l'équipement coûte deux points de croissance au continent.

Alors que le siège de la Banque africaine...

The Star

Rural Electrification Authority Chairman, Simon Gicharu joins Rural Electrification Authority workers to position a pole at Kapseret Primary school in Uasin Gishu County. The Authority is connecting electricity to the...

Daily Maverick

While most debate around South Africa's energy future tends to focus on the best source of new power generation (coal, gas, nuclear renewables), environmental issues and the role of Eskom, much less attention is...

Ventures

Africa Railways, a subsidiary of Qalaa Holdings (formerly Citadel Capital), has completed the drawdown of the final $69.6 million of a $164 million senior debt facility, which it raised through global and East African...

PR Newswire

African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka made a strong case for the importance of tackling private investment impediments in the African infrastructure agenda during the joint AfDB, Organisation for...

Egypt Daily News

A total capacity of 1,300 MW from Ain Sokhna power station will be added to the national electricity grid in August and October, Minister of Electricity Mohamed Shaker said in a Sunday statement.

The station is...

eePublishers

Africa off-grid energy challenge
 
IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) says that the Green Village Electricity Project (GVEP) was a winner of the Power Africa Off-Grid Energy Challenge - an initiative launched...

www.lesoleil.sn

Le ministère de l'hydraulique et de l'assainissement, avec l'unité de coordination du Pepam, a organisé un atelier de restitution d'une étude sur la délégation de gestion des unités de potabilisation dans le...

All Africa

The promotion of renewable energy in Africa was the focus of a seminar entitled Opportunity Africa: Sustainable Energy Investments held on June 24 and 25 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The gathering was jointly organized by...

Polity.org.za

Global elite legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has advised the South African Government E mployees Pension Fund (GEPF), African Development Bank (AfDB) and DTD Holdings (DTD) on their proposed...


Mbendi.com

Five million people in ten countries - eight of them fragile states - are set to benefit from an Africa-wide resource mobilization initiative aimed at improving their access to drinking water, sanitation and...

Business Day

Three major events that would ultimately reshape Africa's infrastructure policy discourse occurred in the second quarter of 2014. The First was the World Economic Forum in Africa, which held in Abuja in early May...

The Africa Report

Germany is caught between hard interests and soft values as it tries to find its way into the African market. But is Chancellor Angela Merkel's government doing enough?

The international community has been...

Ghana News Agency

Ghana is rated amongst the first three most favourable destinations in intra Africa for investment.

This was revealed in a statement signed by Zuweira Ibrahim, Minister Consular in-charge of Information at the...

Bloomberg

Construction foreman Hilaire Adou doubled his staff to meet a September deadline to build 45 houses in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire 's commercial capital, for employees of the African Development Bank."The pressure...


Forbes

Since 1990, 650 million Chinese have been lifted out of poverty, infant mortality has been reduced by 70%, and life expectancy has increased six years - a historic evolution powered by coal, and what the IEA has referred...

Voice of America

Good news for Africa, say the experts. Growth is healthy and broad-based, fueled in part by infrastructure spending, domestic demand and trade.

"A lot of people think growth in Africa is only driven by...

Power Genration Solar

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has granted a loan of $142m to construct a 100MW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in South Africa.

The loan, which includes a $41.5m concessional financing from the...