Infrastructure News
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 ...
Categories: 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...
Categories: 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...
Categories: 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,...
Categories: 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...
Categories: 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 ...
Categories: 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 ...
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...
Categories: 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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Categories: General
Africa's Chance to Lead
13/09/2012
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...
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 ...
Categories: 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...
Categories: 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...
Categories: 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...
Categories: 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 ...
Categories: 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 ...
Categories: 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 ...
Categories: 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...
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...
Categories: 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 ...
Categories: Transport