$ 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...

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...

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...

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...