Infrastructure en continu
ICT: African governments get behind Africa's domain name
30/03/2012
BizCommunity.com - March 29, 2012
Government ministers attending the recent Innovation Africa Digital (IAD) Summit in Ethiopia, this week pledged their support for the ZA Central Registry's (ZACR) bid to become the dotAfrica...
Catégories: TIC
Climate change squeezing Malawi’s maize production
30/03/2012
News Time Africa - March 29, 2012
Despite Malawi registering surplus maize yields in recent years, food production in the southern African nation has been on the decline, a climate change study has indicated. Malawi has in the...
Catégories: Eau
BRICS -Rising powers say new bank can help development
30/03/2012
NEW DELHI (AP) — The leaders of five of the world's fast-rising powers agreed Thursday to move toward creating a new development bank that would improve access to capital for poor nations.
Accusing current international...
Catégories: Infrastructures générales
South Africa’s second renewables bid window heavily oversubscribed
30/03/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 29, 2012
The South African government confirmed on Thursday that it had received a total of 79 tenders, representing 3 233 MW of potential power generation capacity, during the...
Catégories: Energie
South Africa opts for incremental smart-grid migration
30/03/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 30, 2012
State-owned power utility Eskom has started to deploy a hybrid smart grid model that supports its legacy time- division multiplexing management system, while gradually...
Catégories: Energie
New energy videos: Economics of Energy & Affordable Electricity in South Africa at a Tipping Point (South Africa)
30/03/2012
DesignBuiltSA - March 23 & 29, 2012
Two newly uploaded videos in ICA energy infrastructure playlist:
1. Affordable Electricity in South Africa at a Tipping Point?
Mike Rossouw, Chairmen of the heavy energy users group in...
Catégories: Energie
Two Water Infrastructure Videos: Water & Sanitation projects and Sappi Tugela River Project (South Africa)
30/03/2012
DesignBuiltSA - March 20 & 23, 2012
Two newly uploaded videos in ICA water infrastructure playlist:
1. Sappi Tugela River Project (South Africa)
Energy savings and load shifting capabilities at a water treatment and bulk...
Catégories: Eau
Angola: 120 millions USD pour l'approvisionnement en eau de Malanje
30/03/2012
L'Angola va investir 120 millions de dollars dans les prochains jours dans la construction du nouveau système d'approvisionnement en eau et assainissement de la ville de Malanje.
L'annonce a été...
Catégories: Eau
Une nouvelle centrale thermoélectrique en Angola
30/03/2012
Le ministre angolais de l'Energie et Eau, João Baptista Borges, a posé mardi dernier la première pierre du chantier de construction de la centrale thermoélectrique de Menongue, en Angola.
Elle...
Catégories: Energie
MTN awarded Benin Republic and Cote d'Ivoire licences for broadband investment
30/03/2012
MTN, one of Africa's leading communications providers, has been awarded a universal licence in Benin Republic and a 3G licence in Cote d'Ivoire, with both set to lead to large infrastructure investments. The firm will be...
Catégories: TIC
Zimbabwe shortlists bids for enlarging power plants
29/03/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 28, 2012
Zimbabwe has short-listed eleven bidders for the expansion of its Hwange and Kariba South power plants, with a winner expected to be announced in the third quarter of this...
Catégories: Energie
A New Approach to a New Africa- Transcript of Speech by Tony Blair
29/03/2012
The South African.com - March 28, 2012
Below is the speech made by Tony Blair at the The Times CEO Summit Africa, 19 March 2012
“Without doubt Africa is on the move. Just consider the following: in eight of the past 10...
Catégories: Infrastructures générales
The Good And The Bad Of Kenya's First Oil Strike
29/03/2012
National Public Radio (US) - March 28, 2012
For the first time, oil has been discovered in the East African nation of Kenya. The country's energy minister quickly held a news conference. Holding up a bottle of crude, he...
Catégories: Energie
South Africa - Real Economy Report 195 - illegal water use & economic implications (video)
29/03/2012
Creamer media - March 28, 2012
The Real Economy Report from Creamer Media in Johannesburg:The Department of Water Affairs has recently closed in on some farms in the Vaal dam area for illegal water use. Megan Wait...
Catégories: Eau
South Africa: Pros & Cons of Shale Gas (video)
29/03/2012
ABNDigital - March 28, 2012
The South African economy is highly dependent upon electricity production for its industrial commercial and domestic energy needs. Large shale gas deposits could augment primary energy supplies to...
Catégories: Energie
Zimbabwe: 'Infrastructure, Maintenance Spending Constrained'
29/03/2012
allAfrica.com - March 29, 2012
ZIMBABWE'S current spending on infrastructure maintenance is significantly below par. African Development Bank (Zimbabwe) lead economist Mr Damoni Kitabire told the Herald Business that the...
Catégories: Infrastructures générales
BRICS urged to support African infrastructure development
29/03/2012
cntv - March 27, 2012
JOHANNESBURG, March 27 (Xinhua) -- A South African government agency on Tuesday called for the BRICS group to participate in the African infrastructure development program, financing and potentially even ...
Catégories: Infrastructures générales
Fossil fuels to remain dominant in Africa’s energy mix
29/03/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 27, 2012
Fossil fuels will continue to dominate Africa’s energy mix in the next three to five decades, but their depletion should be envisaged in the second half of the century, World...
Catégories: Energie
Boom time for Mozambique, once the basket case of Africa
29/03/2012
The Guardian - March 28, 2012
The shells of stylish colonial-era buildings, like shipwrecks on the ocean floor, still give Maputo a distinct character. But the capital of Mozambique no longer feels like an urban museum. Amid...
Catégories: Infrastructures générales
Cameroon secures $107 mln loans for hydro project
29/03/2012
Reuters - March 28, 2012
Cameroon has reached financing agreements totalling 52.89-billion CFA francs with two regional banks for the construction of the Lom Pangar hydroelectricity project, a decree signed by the government...