Infrastructure News

Video: Nigeria - New Face of Online & Mobile Payments

21/09/2012

ABN Digital: Companies MMIT & Bango recently went into a partnership to change the face of online and mobile payment in Nigeria and Africa by introducing M-Content, to enable online and mobile payments for goods and...

Category: ICT

Video: South Africa - Digital terrestrial television

21/09/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News: Creamer Media's Mariaan Webb speaks to Engineering News online writer Natasha Odendaal about South Africa's move from analogue broadcasting to digital terrestrial television.

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Category: ICT

AfDB to Embark Upon Developing Africa’s Air Transportation to Strengthen Regional Integration

21/09/2012

A high-level delegation from the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) visited the African Development Bank Group on September 18 in Tunis to share industry knowledge and lessons learned that may help revolutionize aviation in...

Category: Transport

Interview with AfDB Manager for Infrastructure Finance, Private Sector Department on Importance of Developing Air Transportation in Africa

21/09/2012

A high-level delegation from the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) visited the African Development Bank Group on September 18 in Tunis to share industry knowledge that may help revolutionize aviation in Africa. The workshop...

Category: Transport

AfDB Approves US $348 Million in Funding for Kenya-Ethiopia Electricity Highway

21/09/2012

The Board of the African Development Fund approved on Thursday, September 20, US $348 million in funding for a US $1.26-billion electricity highway project between Kenya and Ethiopia.

Due for commissioning in November 2017,...

Category: Energy

Video: Temperature control company makes headway in Africa

19/09/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News: Provider of temporary power and temperature control services Aggreko Southern and East Africa, opened a new service centre in Walvis Bay, Namibia, last month.

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Category: Energy

Tanzania: Mwakyembe: Private sector must seize chance in air transport development

19/09/2012

IPP Media: Taking over the Fly 540 Tanzania operating licence, FastJet, at the weekend, announced plans to set up their very first base here in Dar es Salaam. “We will be enabling people who currently couldn’t even dream of...

Category: Transport

South Africa: Umgeni water boss urges training for jobless engineers

19/09/2012

NEPAD Water Centres of Excellence: CYRIL Gamede, the new CE of Umgeni Water, says there are enough engineers in South Africa and perceptions of shortages have arisen because employers do not want to train up newly qualified...

Category: Water

The Nile River: Egypt and Sudan firm up water alliance

19/09/2012

Africa Review: In what must be construed as a warning to the other Nile waters sharing countries, both President Bashir and his Egyptian counterpart reaffirmed their countries “identical position” in regards to the water ...

Category: Water

New Methodology on Cross-Border Electricity Transmission Approved by UN Climate Change Board

19/09/2012

African Development Bank: In its 69th meeting held in Bangkok, September 9-13, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approved a new ...

Category: Energy

Report cites potential for EAC to save transport costs

18/09/2012

IPP Media: The East African business community will be able to save on transport costs by $1.9bn by 2015 if the East African Community (EAC) Partner States rehabilitate northern and central corridors, according a new report...

Category: Transport

Vodacom to launch app development workshop

13/09/2012

IT News Africa: Vodacom is planning to launch South Africa’s first multiplatform mobile application development workshop aimed at strengthening the mobile app eco-system in South Africa. This workshop will be launched in ...

Category: ICT

National policies essential for safe drinking water in rural Africa, says ecosystem science expert

13/09/2012

PRweb: A new policy brief recommends how governments, non-state actors and communities in sub-Saharan Africa can contribute to meeting the United Nations’ 2015 Millennium Development Goal on ensuring safe and clean drinking...

Category: Water

Video: Reshaping South Africa's ICT Sector

13/09/2012

ABN digital: Reshaping South Africa's ICT sector is a key priority especially within the broader infrastructure roll out planned by the government, which is the bedrock of its economic strategy to fast track growth. The sector...

Category: ICT

La Banque islamique renfloue le Sénégal

13/09/2012

Une convention de 680 milliards FCFA vient d’être paraphée entre la Banque Islamique de Développement et l’Etat du Sénégal. La stratégie africaine d’Ahmed Mohammed Ali en marche. Conformément à sa nouvelle feuille de route,...

Category: General

1 milliard FCFA pour entretenir le Bassin Congo-Oubangui-Sangha

13/09/2012

Les 5 ministres des pays membres de la Commission Internationale du Bassin Congo-Oubangui-Sangha (CICOS) ont arrêté à hauteur de 1 milliard 535 million de francs CFA (environs 2339939,02 euros), le budget pour des travaux en...

Category: Water

Building Africa's Green Economy

13/09/2012

Think Africa Press: Africa’s energy demand is forecast to dramatically expand as rapid urbanisation and economic growth push consumption to new heights. Yet the continent is currently plagued by poor power infrastructures and ...

Category: Energy

Nigeria: The Fears, Anxiety Of Sustaining Improvement In Power Supply

13/09/2012

Leadership: If all goes as planned, it is expected that by the first quarter (Q1) of 2013, the privatised generating companies would have been taken over by the new investors and expectedly, the Q2 and Q3 of 2013 the recovery ...

Categories: Energy, Water

Africa and Denmark Join Forces to Promote Investment in Sustainable Energy

13/09/2012

Justmeans.com: Denmark has a long history with Africa. From the 17th to 19th centuries, the relationship was primarily that of colonizer and colonized, as the small European nation established several trading posts and forts...

Category: Energy

Speech by AfDB President Donald Kaberuka: African Economic Integration - Time to Raise the Bar

13/09/2012

Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank - Speech at the Annual Conference of Speakers of African Parliaments: “African Economic Integration - Time to Raise the Bar”Midrand, 30th August, 2012

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Category: General

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