Infrastructure News

Démarrage des travaux du tronçon autoroutier Mednine-Ras jedir

29/10/2013

Source: L'Economiste par Mohsen Tiss

Les travaux de réalisation de l´autoroute Mednine - Ras Jedir ont été lancés dernièrement. Ce tronçon, d´une longueur de 92 km, nécessitera une enveloppe de l´ordre de 450 millions de dinars...

Category: Transport

Think Tanks Chart the Path for Africa's Accelerated Transformation Through Regional Integration

29/10/2013

Source: All Africa

Africa is well positioned to chart the path for transformation through regional integration. But it should go beyond the narrow focus on trade in goods.

This was the conclusion reached, following an afternoon...

Category: General

The Role Of Public-Private Partnerships In Africa


29/10/2013

Source: Ventures Africa

In September 2012, at The Economist´s Future Cities conference in Lagos, Nigeria, Mariam Yunusa, Project Leader for the UN World Urban Forum, succinctly summed up the importance of public-private...

Category: General

Lagos- Algiers Trans-Saharan Highway will reduce transport costs, boost intra-African trade- NEPAD

29/10/2013

Source:NAN

The NEPAD chief said Africa was the least integrated continent in the world.

The Chief Executive Officer of the New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD), Ibrahim Mayaki, has said that the ongoing 4,500-km...

Category: Transport

Warsaw climate conference: Africa urged to agree on adaptation funds

28/10/2013

Source: Pana

The Third Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-III), meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ended Wednesday with a strong appeal for Africa to agree before next month´s UN Climate Change...

Category: General

Can Africa dodge 'curse' of new oil wealth?

28/10/2013

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

Technology and geology are converging to unlock billions of barrels of oil across much of Africa in the coming decade. Can Africa avoid a 'resource curse' and leverage its mineral wealth to...

Categories: Energy, ICT

SA investment in Africa is increasing

28/10/2013

Source : SAPA

South Africa's economic involvement in sub-Saharan Africa continues to grow, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Wednesday.

In his 2013 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, tabled in Parliament, he said...

Category: General

Emergence of "powerful" China an economic boon for Africa

24/10/2013

Source : Xinhua

The emergence of China as a global economic powerhouse is a boon for Africa as the continent now has improved chances of accessing cheap capital from world markets, a senior Zimbabwean official said.

With a...

Category: General

Private, Public, and Development Players Must Come Together to Power Africa's Future

24/10/2013

Source : The Huffington

Tony O. Elumelu, chairman of Heirs Holdings, was the featured speaker at a recent CSIS Africa Program public event, Powering Africa's Progress, which focused on the critical need to accelerate power...

Category: Energy

Ethiopia and Kenya secure funds for $1.26bn power line

24/10/2013

Source : Reuters

Ethiopia and Kenya have secured funds for a $1 .26bn power line aimed at improving electricity supply and the project is set for completion in two years´ time, an Ethiopian official said on Wednesday.

Addis...

Category: Energy

Cameroun - Grand-Nord: La Bad va électrifier des dizaines de villages

23/10/2013

Source : L'Oeil du Sahel

Le Conseil d'administration du groupe de la Banque africaine de développement (Bad) a approuvé le 7 octobre 2013 à Tunis, le financement par le Fonds africain de développement (FAD) de l'étude du projet...

Category: Energy

Le Togo a célébré la première journée nationale de l´Energie Durable

23/10/2013

Source: Horizon News

Le Togo comme de nombreux pays d´Afrique souffre de problème énergétique durable. En Afrique subsaharienne, plus de 600 millions de personnes n´ont pas accès aux services énergétiques modernes et dépendent...

Category: Energy

Energy alternatives in Africa

23/10/2013

Source: Business Excellence

When President Jacob Zuma appointed Elizabeth Dipuo Peters to the post of Energy Minister in 2009 one of the key performance areas he asked her to progress was getting greater private sector...

Category: Energy

AfDB to Participate in Rwanda ICT and Innovation Summit

22/10/2013

Source: All Africa

The African Development Bank (AfDB), will participate in "Transform Africa 2013 Summit" to be hosted by the government of Rwanda from 28 to 31 October in Kigali.

This pan African ICT event will...

Category: ICT

Geldof: Africa needs aid, debt cancellation, Western and Chinese investment, and mobile phones

21/10/2013

Days after declaring his own generation had "failed," rock star philanthropist Bob Geldof has told Al Jazeera that the next generation will do so too.Geldof had struck the previous pessimistic note at The One Young...

Category: ICT

AfDB reports significant opportunities of shale gas production in Africa in a new publication

21/10/2013

Several African countries have potentially viable shale gas deposits, which, if developed, could lead to lower gas prices, increased consumption of natural gas, reduced greenhouse gas emissions from power generation and...

Category: Energy

Environmental concerns cloud path of African power plans

18/10/2013

Business Day

Within days of each other in June, President Barack Obama and US legislators across the spectrum announced a push to lift Africa´s development by providing electricity to millions without it.

That unanimity has...

Category: Energy

East Africa Oil Discoveries Breed Challenges

18/10/2013

Voice of America

Significant oil reserves have been discovered in Uganda and Kenya in recent years. However before Kenyans and Ugandans can benefit from the discoveries infrastructure challenges, political issues and special...

Categories: Energy, ICT

Africa adopts Islamic sukuk to fund big infrastructure projects

18/10/2013

Financial Times

Africa is for the first time embracing large-scale Islamic finance as countries seek to tap cash-rich Middle Eastern investors to finance their large infrastructure programmes.

The market for sukuk, or Islamic...

Category: General

US $14.7 billion invested in African clean energy since 2007

18/10/2013

Africa Investor

Between 2011 and 2012, the African Development Bank (AfDB) increased by 92% its investment in clean energy in Africa, according to a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

The publication looks at the clean...

Category: Energy

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