Infrastructure News
$ 1.3 million to improve highway movement in the Ivory Coast
29/01/2010
The World Bank has granted 112,000 Dollars to the Ivory Coast in order to promote ease of movement on highways across the country, with a further 1.2 million Dollars to be added in 2010.
The funds will be used to finance a...
Plans for Uganda-Sudan-Kenya road network rehabilitation 'underway'
29/01/2010
Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has said that plans to tarmac roads connecting the country to southern Sudan and Kenya were already underway.
Speaking at the commissioning of the new Uganda Clays factory at Kamonkoli, he...
Categories: Transport
New bypass project could end Kenya's ferry chaos
28/01/2010
The Kenyan government is discussing a plan to build a bypass linking Mombasa Island to the south coast, which it says will have the effect of improving road links with Tanzania and the general quality of the transport network...
Categories: Transport
MOU for African Financing Partnership signed by AfDB
28/01/2010
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the African Financing Partnership (AFP).
President of the AfDB Donald Kaberuka explained this year's target would be the collaborative...
Categories: General
Degraded infrastructure 'compromises Nigerian deregulation plans'
27/01/2010
Government agencies and private organisations have urged the minister of petroleum resources not to go ahead with the full deregulation of the Nigerian downstream oil sector until all the necessary infrastructure improvement is...
Rwanda finds Nyabarongo hydro power project funder
27/01/2010
The Rwandan government has signed an agreement to receive a $60 million line of credit from the Exim Bank of India to finance the construction of the Nyabarongo hydro power project.
Collette Uwineza Ruhamya, State minister for...
Categories: Energy
Tunisia to aid Rwandan rural electrification
26/01/2010
More than 40,000 homes in Rwanda are tipped to benefit from a rural electrification project with Tunisia.
Electrogaz and STEG International Services signed the bilateral partnership agreement adopting a single phase electricity...
Categories: Energy
Tunisia: Major highway infrastructure projects in progress
25/01/2010
Tunisian Minister of Equipment, Mr. Slaheddine Malouche, announced the undertaking of a large number of highway infrastructure projects in the course of a press conference held this week in Tunis.
He referred to a total...
'Thousands to benefit' from clean water project in Tanzania
25/01/2010
A new water project in the Tanzanian village of Muungano received praise at its inauguration this weekend after its successful execution promised to bring clean and affordable drinking water to its 4,600 residents.
Some Sh181.8...
Categories: Water
First wind farm in Algeria scheduled for 2012
25/01/2010
The first wind farm in Algeria will be operational in 2012, according to a press release from Vergnet, the company which will be carrying out the work.
Vergnet has just won the invitation to tender for the project, for an amount...
Appeal to the private sector for the construction of infrastructures in Southern Africa
25/01/2010
An appeal to private investors to finance transport, water, energy, and IT infrastructures was launched on Friday 22 January 2010 by the Southern Africa Development Community, as the Angop press agency reports.
João Caholo, the...
Morocco launches 'biggest national solar-thermal energy project'
22/01/2010
Morocco has launched a solar-thermal energy project it claims will be able to produce 2,000MW by 2020 - 38 per cent of its power needs.
North Africa's only non-oil producing nation also anticipates being able to decrease its oil...
Categories: Energy
China EXIM bank funding saves Lagos-Kano rail plans
22/01/2010
Nigeria is hoping for the effective drawdown of a $500 million (£310.6 million) concessional loan from China Exim bank to kick-start the Lagos-Kano railway rehabilitation project.
Finance minister Mansur Muhtar said that...
Categories: Transport
Study for Ethiopian railroad underway
21/01/2010
The Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with four foreign companies for the launching of a study on the construction of a rail line in the country.
China Communication Construction...
Categories: Transport
PPPs 'key to Nigerian infrastructure development'
20/01/2010
The director-general of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) Mansur Ahmed has said active participation in the public private partnership (PPP) model is the only way to reach its 2020 targets.
He was quoted...
Categories: General
Kenyan finance minister announces infrastructure investment intentions
19/01/2010
The deputy prime minister and minister for finance Uhuru Kenyatta has presented Kenya's infrastructure investment plans for the coming year.
His speech identified this area as a priority for the country, saying it held the key...
Categories: Transport
Senegal: A fund to encourage creativity in IT
18/01/2010
An investment fund is going to be set up in Senegal to encourage entrepreneurs to put their creations to work in the IT domain.
The announcement was made last Thursday by an official from the government programme known as the...
Phase II of EAC railway to be AfDB funded
18/01/2010
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has committed to giving $8.15 million (£5 million) to the East African Community's railway project.
In supporting the second phase of the programme, the investment will facilitate the...
Categories: Transport
Gabon gives priority to infrastructures
15/01/2010
The French Development Agency (AFD) signed an agreement this week with the Gabon State and the Gabon Energy and Water Company (SEEG) aimed at financing the establishment of water infrastructures in the northern part of...
Nigerian infrastructure investment undergoes regulatory change
15/01/2010
From now on, all public private partnerships (PPPs) in the Nigerian development sector will need the endorsement of the Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission in order to be recognised by the federal executive...