Infrastructure News

A professor in South Africa has developed an implement that may help millions get access to healthy drinking water.

Professor Eugene Cloete, dean of science at the University of Stellenbosch, has devised a filter that can be...

In order to strengthen its co-operative relations with Ghana, South Korea is to open an office for its cooperation agency, the Korean International Cooperation Agency, on Ghanaian territory, reports...

African governments need to improve their ICT programmes, it has been claimed.

There needs to be a series of initiatives introduced in order to raise industrialisation on the continent, the Southern Times reports.

Professor...

The Regional Fund for Development and Financing for the transport and energy sectors, known as FODETE-CEDEAO, was officially born last Saturday at Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast.

A ceremony was organized for...

The African Development Bank has just signed an agreement with Burkina Faso for a grant of 39 million dollars to finance a project for the development of electrical infrastructures and...

The World Bank has announced it is going to increase its efforts to encourage investment in the continent of Africa over the next five years.

Since the introduction of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000, the International...

On September 15, the African Development Bank approved a loan of 308.7 million dollars to the Tunisian government as a contribution to the financing of a major road infrastructure...

Individuals in Nigeria may benefit from improved sanitation after a number of water projects were approved.

It will see Owena Dam Water Treatment Plant Project in Akure, which is located in the south-west region of the country,...

The Gabonese Minister of Communication, Laure Gondjout, met a representative of the African Development Bank, J. Gharbi, in order to discuss how to increase their cooperation, especially in the domain of...

Goodluck Jonathan, the president of Nigeria, announced on Monday September 13 2010 his intention to create a fund designated for infrastructures and saving, financed by...

Electricity networks in Cameroon are set to be improved thanks to investment from the African Development Bank (AfDB).

The total cost of the project is being put at $80 million (£51.5 million) and it will see 423 localities...

Two EU officials will meet with 15 African ministers to try and agree upon energy access and security in the continent.

Commissioner for development Andris Piebalgs and commissioner for energy Gunther Oettinger are the two...

Carbon2Green, a Canadian enterprise specializing in the development of clean energies, has just announced its intention to develop its African division, installed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In a...

The energy ministers of some twenty African countries and the European Energy Commissioners met last Tuesday and Wednesday in Vienna, in the company of representatives from clean energy production...

The national electricity company of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (SNEL) has just signed a contract with a value of eight million dollars with the company ABB for the supply of...

It is time for Africa to embrace environmentalism, it has been claimed.

Dr Janice Golding, honorary research associate at the plant conservation unit at the University of Cape Town, South Afrcia, was writing in Business Day when...

An official from the European Development Fund (COFED), Alexis Mwamba, announced on 4 September that the European Commission has mobilized more than 164 million dollars to renew roads in...

Africa needs between $30 billion (£20 billion) and $50 billion of investment annually in order to improve its water supply.

This is according to the African Development Bank and Ali Kies, director of its water and...

The World Bank has just published a report on the water sector recommending that States should manage their hydraulic resources more skilfully.

In particular, it reveals that the first step to...

The commitment of the Nigerian government to power generation has been reaffirmed.

According to This Day, plans have been revealed that will see the Kainji and Jebba dams rehabilitated so they will have the capacity to generate...