Infrastructure News

China has just granted 360 million dollars to Democratic Republic of the Congo to finance the construction of the Zongo 2 electricity power station.

The loan agreement was signed Saturday...

The East African Community (EAC) is seeking to cut the cost of doing business in the region by forty per cent.

A $300 million (£187 million) project will improve transport infrastructure and border management in the area,...

The agro-industrial complex in Dja, a plant for producing electricity from manioc, will soon open in Cameroon.

A protocol of agreement was signed Tuesday January 25 with the company Forbes...

A new wind farm with an output of 150 Megawatts will be constructed in Morocco, at Taza, to the north-east of Rabat.

The works, which will take three years, will cost a total of 304.5 million...

Transport infrastructure in Cameroon and Nigeria is to benefit from the creation of a new border posting.

David Kamara, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) director of transport and telecommunications, said the...

Cameroon's ministry for public works has just announced that the construction of the second bridge over the river Wouri, linking the city of Douala to the facilities of the Autonomous Port of Douala,...

Kenya's energy infrastructure is set to improve after Siemens was awarded a deal to improve two power substations in the country.

The contract is worth $33.7 million (£21.2 million) and has been handed out by Kenya...

The West African Development Bank (WADB) has signed a loan agreement with the government of Burkina Faso as partial financing for a project to increase the capacity of the power station in Komsilga.

The...

A solar energy project in Sierra Leone has received a $20 million (£12.6 million) loan, with the money being used to improve the energy infrastructure of the nation.

The deal, which is being provided by the Economic...

An energy infrastructure project in Guinea is to be funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB).

A $23 million (£14.5 million) grant will help with the rural electrification project and 60,000 people are to gain access to...

The cost of laying the second submarine communication cable for Angola is estimated at 92 million dollars, it was said last Sunday by António Nunes, engineer with Angola Cable, to...

January 21: William Wu, CEO of Chinese company "Catidc Power", presented Congolese Minister for Energy Gilbert Tshiongo with a project for generating electricity from gas at Lake Kivu, in...

Tanzania can expect its energy infrastructure to improve dramatically once a wind farm project has been completed.

It will be the second biggest scheme of its kind in east Africa - creating 100MW - and will be located in...

The plant to produce photovoltaic solar panels at Rouiba, in Algeria, will be operational by 2012.

Work should commence before the end of the first quarter of this year, the company Sonelgaz,...

The Senegalese government has announced the launch of a project to construct infrastructures for the transport and distribution  of water in order to end the shortages affecting the region...

The government of Algeria is to set up a program comprising 65 renewable energy generation infrastructure projects across the country.

This program, which will shortly be presented to the government,...

China has granted a loan of 73 million USD to Senegal in order to finance an electrical infrastructure project.

The aim is to resolve the problems of shortages experienced by the Dakar...

Water infrastructure in Ghana is set to be enhanced thanks to an innovative organisation.

It is called Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor and it will see local and global expertise combined to improve the quality of water...

The government of Togo has just launched a bond for 1.4 billion dollars, it was learned January 20 by the Xinhua press agency.

The purpose is to finance the construction of road infrastructures, but...

Energy infrastructure in Namibia is to be improved thanks to the development of a wind farm.

The 44MW wind power generation plant will be located at Diaz Point in Luderitz and will cost $150 million (£94 million) to...