Infrastructure News
Kenya moves to improve sole refinery's efficiency
18/04/2012
Reuters - 17 April 2012
Kenya has taken steps to transform its sole oil refinery from a heavily-subsidised operation to improve its efficiency and bring down costs of its products, the energy ministry said on Tuesday.
In...
Kgalema Motlanthe on the history of mining in South Africa
18/04/2012
politicsweb - 17 April 2012
Excerpts from Address by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe at the opening of the Ninth International Mining History Congress, Gold Reef City, Johannesburg, April 17
a conference of this magnitude...
Categories: General
Malawi, Sustainable Energy, and the God of the Developing World
18/04/2012
Village - 17 April 2012
As Malawi elects a new and female President, Joyce Banda, following the controversial death of her 78-year old predecessor, Deirdre Mulrooney reflects on her recent visit there
So you think...
Categories: Energy
Five Renewable Sources of Energy for Farmers in Developing Countries
18/04/2012
WorldWatch Institute - 17 April 2012
According to the United Nations, access to reliable and sufficient sources of energy will be critical to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of reducing poverty and hunger by...
Categories: Energy
Samsung Digital Strategy for Africa Content (video)
18/04/2012
ABNDigital - 18 April 2012
The Tech @ Work team recently caught up with Mr Park, Samsung Africa, CEO at the Samsung Africa conference in Cape Town to discuss Samsung's Strategy for the African content.
Watch video as part of...
Categories: ICT
South Africa: Comair - Hot or Not? (video)
18/04/2012
ABNDigital - 18 April 2012
Comair was founded by the Novick and Moritz families, and operates the British Airways licence in South Africa. It also operates under the banner kulula.com, and has a market cap of R665 million....
Categories: Transport
Videos: Water issues in South Africa
18/04/2012
ABNDigital - 18 April 2012
South Africa's Water Crisis with SAB's Andre Fourie
ABN is focusing its attention on water sustainability in Africa and South Africa faces serious threats from its increasingly scarce water ...
Categories: Water
South Africa: Congress of South African Trade Unions denounces e-tolling blackmail
18/04/2012
Africa Report - 18 April 2012
South Africa's largest trade union federation says it is ready for a battle with the government if it continues with the contentious e-tolling system in the country's economic hub of Gauteng.The...
Categories: Transport
Ghana may lose opportunities as an oil producing country due to power constraints
18/04/2012
GhanaWeb - 17 April 2012
Ghana might lose opportunities presented by her new potential as a major gas producing country in the West-African Sub-Region if she failed to resolve the current power challenges, Mr Goosie Tannoh, an...
Categories: Energy
La BAD lance un projet de 33 millions d’euros pour le recyclage des eaux usées en Tunisie
18/04/2012
Banque africaine de développement - 17 avril 2012
La Banque africaine de développement, l’Office national de l’assainissement (ONAS) et le gouvernement tunisien ont organisé à Hammamet, du 10 au 12 avril, un atelier de trois...
Categories: Water
Is Morocco the Mediterranean's Green Energy Savior?
18/04/2012
Forbes - 18 April 2012
Amid the eager and often conflicting discussions about what it’s going to take to develop a real, tangible green economy in North Africa – one that makes the most of a seemingly endless supply of solar...
Categories: Energy
ICA Supports One-Stop Border Post Regional Workshop in Burkina Faso - 25-27 April 2012
18/04/2012
Organizers: West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) & Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Categories: Transport
Africa's demand for pilots, aircraft to soar
18/04/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News - 17 April 2012
Africa would need more than 800 new airplanes over the next 20 years and between 14 000 and 20 000 new trained pilots, Boeing Commercial Airplanes international sales director...
Categories: Transport
Algérie: Annonce d'un projet de réhabilitation de 200 km de voie ferrée
18/04/2012
Un projet portant sur l'électrification et le doublement d'un tronçon de 200 km de voie ferrée traversant la région de Tébessa en Algérie va débuter d'ici la fin de...
Categories: Transport
Dark fibre firm confirms roll out plans
18/04/2012
Dark Fibre Africa, the open access dark fibre infrastructure provider, has revealed that its R75 million (£5.9 million) roll-out in the region of Benoni is continuing at a good pace, despite the recent moratorium on fibre...