The World Bank is going to grant a package of 5.5 billion Dollars to five countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region towards the financing of solar energy projects.
Africa is home to a quarter of the world's arable land and would be able to support its own food production with the proper help and infrastructure, one expert has said.
Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, writer for the Guardian's...
A contract has been signed by the national water supply board of Morocco (ONEP) and the World Bank, giving the go-ahead to a scheme set to improve access to water for the country's citizens.
Improvements made to Ethiopia's infrastructure - which may include road, water and energy projects - have been commended by the country's government officials.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) group chief economist...
Zimbabwe telephone operators Econet Wireless announced last week that they had obtained a loan of 60 million Dollars from Swedish credit agency EKN, in order to finance the expansion of their network across the territory.
South African President Jacob Zuma declared last Tuesday that he is intending to strengthen commercial exchanges with China, in particular in the infrastructure sector.
He is hoping in this way to speed up their development and...
Authorities have reclaimed land in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, after developers did not create the basic infrastructure needed for construction projects to succeed.
This is according to the Addis Fortune, which states: "In some...
Four million twenty five thousand US Dollars: That is the amount the Japanese government has just granted to the Ivory Coast in order to upgrade its water supply infrastructures.
Japanese ambassador Okumura Yoshifumi declared at...
Kenya's energy self sufficiency could be set to be improved by biofuels.
According to the African Centre for Technology Studies, the country has to zone areas of growing high yield feed stocks to create biofuels as a green...
Telephone operators Bharti Airtel announced on 16 August 2010 its intention of investing ten million Dollars over three years in the Seychelles, in a number of IT infrastructure projects.
Tunisia has just announced its intention to invest 5.5 billion Dollars in developing a high-speed railway line which will link its territory to Libya Morocco, and Algeria.
The investment, which will be spread over the next ten...
A project involving the modernisation and rehabilitation of the agricultural irrigation network of the plains of Hebra and the Province of Mascara in Algeria will be set in place in 2011, the daily Tribune has learned from a...
India and Singapore have signed a number of contracts with Gabon to the value of 4.5 billion Dollars for several infrastructure projects, as President Ali Bongo announced this weekend.
A number of European development partners have jus signed a financing agreement with Egypt relating to a project for the extension of the Egyptian electricity network.
According to a press release issued on Friday by the...
