The next stage of the trans-national Bujumbura-Rusizi-Karongi-Rubavu highway looks set to go ahead after funding for the project was agreed between the Rwandan government and the OPEC Fund for International Development, the New...
L'Afrique reste le continent dont l'accès à des ressources en eau de qualité est le plus limité, les Américains du nord sont toujours les plus gros consommateurs tandis que l'Asie-Pacifique ...
WITH the current hindrances to the flow of trade within the East African Community (EAC), there is a need to strengthen partnerships between private and public sectors to improve the region’s...
As African countries continue to increase and upgrade their infrastructure, sea ports are set to attract huge investment over the medium term. To get a sense of the opportunity, ABN's Wole Famurewa ...
Nairobi, Kenya — Members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) have petitioned development partners to finance key infrastructure projects in the Horn of Africa.
Construction work to rid the port of Mombasa of inefficiencies is nearing completion. This follows a progress report issued by the Kenya Ports Authority chief executive Gichiri Ndua, who says the...
Youtube video - from IGAD Horn of Africa Conference, with Alex Rugamba, Director of NEPAD, Regional Integration and Trade Department of the the African Development Bank.
While capital has flowed rapidly to satisfy the needs of the largest and — thanks to the microfinance boom – the smallest African companies, SMEs have fallen into a “missing middle.” SMEs in the ...
Ration Magazine - March 12, 2012Capital for Africa Prospects for East Africa as a PE destination are promising. The continent experienced a significant influx of private equity interest in 2011. According to our data, private...
I recently attended the NEPAD Business Foundation Implementing ICT Projects in Africa Workshop and the Zimbabwe Investment and Trade Conference. It was interesting to note that the...
For South Africa, ICT has pushed progress ahead rapidly in the past two decades, helping to level the playing field between urban and rural areas and enabling the country to better compete at a global level.
Commercial bank Absa has partnered with French development finance institution Agence Français de Developpmente (AFD) to offer R400-million worth of loan financing to...
Ethiopia is pursuing a massive dam building project that it hopes will generate alternative sources of power, but critics have said the endeavour will be an environmental disaster.
South Africa and Lesotho will show off their jointly managed Lesotho Highlands Water Project - one of the biggest engineering projects of its kind in the world - at the world's biggest...
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s energy regulator said on Friday last week it had cut the increase in electricity rates for power utility Eskom to 16 percent for the 2012/13 financial year from a...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Monday it would loan Kenya 21.8 billion shillings to finance the construction of roads and energy projects in east Africa's biggest...
Le Fonds koweitien de développement économique a accordé un prêt de cinq milliards de FCFA au Niger, le 8 mars dernier, afin d’aider à l’aménagement du tronçon...
