Infrastructure News

Africa's Chance to Lead

12/09/2012

HydroWorld.com: Stupendous in magnitude, the Grand Inga project envisages 40 GW of hydropower capacity in the Inga valley, some 250 km west of Kinshasa on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Conceiving...

Categories: Energy, Water

Video: Energy in the Wind - a Moroccan wind farm produces green energy

12/09/2012

Deutsche Welle: As Morocco's economy grows, it needs more and more energy - some ten percent more each year. A new wind farm outside Tangier is now one of the country's biggest and most promising energy providers.

Morocco ...

Category: Energy

Finland to fund energy projects

12/09/2012

The Observer: Now that Uganda has entered the Energy and Environment Partnership (EEP) with other southern and East African countries, aiming at boosting the use of renewable energies, Ugandans with creative and innovative...

Category: Energy

East Africa: Regional Council, European Bank Discuss Infrastructure Funding

12/09/2012

AllAfrica.com (The New Times): As a way of unravelling infrastructural challenges that have remained a major obstacle to the integration process, the EAC Secretariat has turned to Europe seeking funding for regional...

Category: General

Ce que vous devez savoir sur l'envol économique de l'Afrique

12/09/2012

Slate Afrique: L’Afrique n’est plus le «continent perdu» de l’imaginaire collectif. Le continent connaît un essor rapide depuis dix ans, le secteur privé prend de l’ampleur et une nouvelle classe de consommateurs détient un...

Category: General

Uganda: Community Agricultural Infrastructure Improvement Programme

12/09/2012

African Development Bank: The Community Agricultural Infrastructure Improvement Programme – Project I (CAIIP-1) resulted from a comprehensive review of Uganda’s agricultural sector, which was carried out in 2005 by the Ugandan ...

Category: General

North Africa: The Role of Infrastructure in the Success of the Arab Spring

11/09/2012

U.S. Department of State - Remarks by Deborah A. McCarthy, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, Infrastructure and Business ...

Category: General

World water crisis must be top UN priority: report

11/09/2012

Agence France Presse: WASHINGTON — A rapidly worsening water shortage threatens to destabilize the planet and should be a top priority for the UN Security Council and world leaders, a panel of experts said in a report.

The ...

Category: Water

Cameroon: Lom-Pangar Funds Wholly Mobilised

11/09/2012

AllAfrica.com (Cameroon Tribune): The European Investment Bank last Friday completed the FCFA 238 billion package needed for the project.

The total amount needed to execute the multibillion Lom-Pangar Hydroelectricity Dam at...

Categories: Water, Energy

Afrique de l’Ouest : une ligne ferroviaire pour relier 4 capitales

11/09/2012

Le Griot: Le Bénin, le Burkina-Faso, la Côte d’Ivoire et le Niger, pays représentés par leurs ministres des Transports, ainsi que leurs partenaires techniques et financiers se sont retrouvés le week-end dernier à Niamey afin...

Category: Transport

Upgrade plan for Kenya-Uganda railway

11/09/2012

Africa Review: Kenya–Uganda rail operator Rift Valley Railways (RVR) has embarked on a major renovation of its locomotive overhaul facility in Kampala as part of a five-year turnaround effort at a cost of $284 ...

Category: Transport

Rwanda: Sick Workers, Bad Roads to Hurt Rwanda's Competitiveness - Report

10/09/2012

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...

Category: General

Video: Infrastructure and policy delivery to form basis of World Bank's future engagement with South Africa

10/09/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News - Watch video on Youtube.

Category: General

Infrastructure: Regulators need more teeth, says study

10/09/2012

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...

Categories: General, Transport, ICT

Trade facilitation to open up Africa’s potential - Davies

10/09/2012

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...

Category: General

Renewables firm secures more capital for projects in SA, Ireland, Chile and Canada

10/09/2012

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...

Category: Energy

Congo: après la première tablette tactile africaine, le premier smartphone made in Africa

10/09/2012

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...

Category: ICT

Sénégal : Programme d’eau potable et assainissement en milieu rural - PEPAM

10/09/2012

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 ...

Category: Water

Terminal à Conteneur de Dakar

10/09/2012

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 ...

Category: Transport

Sénégal: Autoroute à péage Dakar – Diamniadio

10/09/2012

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...

Category: Transport

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