Infrastructure News

Gambian energy minister: Funding needed for rural energy projects

16/09/2009

Gambia energy minister Ousman Jammeh has called for donors to help fund two projects identified in 2007 to improve rural electrification.

Represented by minister of the Interior Ousman Sonko, Mr Jammeh was reported by Foroyaa...

Categories: Energy

Uganda: $100m bridge will serve both tourism and transport

16/09/2009

Executive director of the Uganda National Roads authority Pete Ssebanakitta has announced the approval of a new bridge crossing the Nile.

Speaking through authority spokesperson Dan Alinange during a workshop in Kampala, the...

Categories: Transport

Sasol moves towards independence with 2012 sufficiency goals

15/09/2009

Sasol Synfuels has said it is suffering from rising prices due to Eskom's expansion projects and has announced plans to move towards independence using natural gas from Mozambique.

Chief executive officer Pat Davies declared that...

Categories: Energy

NTIC expanding rapidly in Sub-Saharan Africa

15/09/2009

The General Secretary of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Hamadoun Toure, made a statement this weekend about the scale of the progress achieved over the past few years in the field of new technologies in...

Categories: ICT

Four major new projects involving water infrastructures launched in South Africa

14/09/2009

A South African public construction company, TCTA, has announced that it is seeking to accrue 44 billion Rand (6 billion Dollars) to finance several infrastructure projects in the water sector, TCTA CEO Halima Nazeer announced on...

Categories: Water

Ten Africa countries to benefit from sat broadband

14/09/2009

An agreement between SES and Intersat will increase broadband penetration in ten eastern and central African countries, it has been announced.

Due to start in the January 2010, the deal is aimed at bringing internet to the...

Categories: ICT

Launching of an inter-State electricity network project in East Africa

11/09/2009

A joint project involving five states in the Nile region will be put into effect over the next five years, aimed at the development of transport and electricity distribution infrastructures.

The announcement was made on...

Categories: General

Kenya: Appeal to save major water resource

11/09/2009

On Wednesday 9 September 2009 the Kenyan government launched an appeal to partner organizations in the development sector with the aim of accruing 400 million Dollars so as to preserve one of the country’s principal water...

Categories: Water

European Union investing in geothermal energy in Kenya

10/09/2009

A geothermal energy project is going to be undertaken in Kenya’s Rift Valley.

Financed by the European Union to the amount of 1.7 billion Sh (about 12 million Dollars), the project will be implemented by UNIDO, the UN body...

Categories: Energy

Congo to receive £76 million for road infrastructure

09/09/2009

The Department for International Development has announced a doubling in funding for its road-building programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from £38 million to £76 million.

Africa minister Gareth Thomas...

Categories: Transport

African Energy to operate uranium mine in Zambia

08/09/2009

The enterprise African Energy Resources have announced their intention of

putting into production their uranium mine at Chirundu in Zambia in 2010.

Categories: Energy

£18 million ICT project approved by AfDB

08/09/2009

The Helios Shared Telecom Infrastructure project in Nigeria has received a $30 million loan (£18.1 million) from the African Development Bank Group (AfDB).

Aimed at stimulating non-oil growth and improving the business...

Categories: ICT

IFC and Absa to finance African infrastructures

07/09/2009

The South African bank group Absa announced on Thursday 3 September 2009 that it had signed an agreement with IFC (International Finance Corporation) to invest in infrastructure projects in Africa.

“Absa, by way of Absa Capital,...

Categories: General

Congo invites collaboration on hydropower plant

07/09/2009

The Democratic Republic of Congo will open the doors to a $5 billion (£3 billion) Western Power Corridor hydropower project this week, the Congolese ambassador to South Africa has revealed.

In an interview with Bloomberg,...

Categories: Energy

New cable project could 'bring new prosperity'

07/09/2009

The new underwater cable Glo 1 could "bridge the digital divide between Africa and the rest of the world," operator Globacom has said.

Launching the Nigerian side of the project in Lagos over the weekend, Globacom's...

Categories: ICT

Nigeria: 78 million Dollars for the water sector

04/09/2009

The African Development Bank has just granted a loan of 78 million Dollars to Nigeria for upgrading infrastructures in the water supply and drainage sector.

The prime objective of the project is to improve access to the drinking...

Categories: Water

Third phase of fibre optic development in Mozambique

04/09/2009

A contract worth 21 million Euros (about 30 million Dollars) for the deployment of the fibre optic Internet has just been signed between the French company Alcatel-Lucent and Telecomunicacoes de Moçambique (TDM), the Mozambique...

Categories: ICT

Kenya's £990 million transmission line project

04/09/2009

Transmissions lines will be built to link Kenya with Ethiopia and Tanzania to reinforce the existing network and allow the latter states access to long-term low tariffs, Capital Business magazine has reported.

The Sh123 billion...

Categories: Energy

Tunisia: 66 million Dollars to restructure the electricity network

03/09/2009

On Wednesday, 2 September, the African Development Bank (BAD) approved a loan of 87.83 million Tunisian Dinars (66.306 million Dollars) to upgrade the country’s electricity distribution networks.

The loan will go to finance a...

Categories: Energy

Nigeria 'choosing between 13 Nitel investors'

03/09/2009

After trying to sell off the state-owned telecoms monopoly Nitel for years, Nigeria has announced that 13 potential investors could be interested - and president Umaru Yar'Adua has given a 60-day deadline for privatisation.

The...