Infrastructure News

Morocco launches 'biggest national solar-thermal energy project'

22/01/2010

Morocco has launched a solar-thermal energy project it claims will be able to produce 2,000MW by 2020 - 38 per cent of its power needs.

North Africa's only non-oil producing nation also anticipates being able to decrease its oil...

Category: Energy

China EXIM bank funding saves Lagos-Kano rail plans

22/01/2010

Nigeria is hoping for the effective drawdown of a $500 million (£310.6 million) concessional loan from China Exim bank to kick-start the Lagos-Kano railway rehabilitation project.

Finance minister Mansur Muhtar said that...

Category: Transport

Study for Ethiopian railroad underway

21/01/2010

The Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with four foreign companies for the launching of a study on the construction of a rail line in the country.

China Communication Construction...

Category: Transport

PPPs 'key to Nigerian infrastructure development'

20/01/2010

The director-general of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) Mansur Ahmed has said active participation in the public private partnership (PPP) model is the only way to reach its 2020 targets.

He was quoted...

Category: General

Kenyan finance minister announces infrastructure investment intentions

19/01/2010

The deputy prime minister and minister for finance Uhuru Kenyatta has presented Kenya's infrastructure investment plans for the coming year.

His speech identified this area as a priority for the country, saying it held the key...

Category: Transport

Senegal: A fund to encourage creativity in IT

18/01/2010

An investment fund is going to be set up in Senegal to encourage entrepreneurs to put their creations to work in the IT domain.

The announcement was made last Thursday by an official from the government programme known as the...

Phase II of EAC railway to be AfDB funded

18/01/2010

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has committed to giving $8.15 million (£5 million) to the East African Community's railway project.

In supporting the second phase of the programme, the investment will facilitate the...

Category: Transport

Gabon gives priority to infrastructures

15/01/2010

The French Development Agency (AFD) signed an agreement this week with the Gabon State and the Gabon Energy and Water Company (SEEG) aimed at financing the establishment of water infrastructures in the northern part of...

Nigerian infrastructure investment undergoes regulatory change

15/01/2010

From now on, all public private partnerships (PPPs) in the Nigerian development sector will need the endorsement of the Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission in order to be recognised by the federal executive...

Togolese road project 'to reinforce regional trade'

15/01/2010

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a UA 23.31 million (£22.5 million) grant to Togo to rehabilitate the Aflao-Sanve Conji-Benin border road.

According to the organisation, this will help the country to develop...

Category: Transport

Tunisia inaugurates two cyber-parks

13/01/2010

Tunisia pursues a dynamic policy with regard to information technologies, and is encouraging the creation of cyber-parks across the whole country.

Two days of investment promotions in TIC are being held this week in Kebili and...

Kenya-Uganda railway threatened by lack of capital

13/01/2010

The shareholders of Rift Valley Railways (RVR) have been issued an ultimatum and given a two-week deadline by the Kenya and Uganda governments to commute their interests to the Kenya-Uganda Railway Holdings.

For the past 18...

Category: Transport

Nigeria calls for $10bn power investment

12/01/2010

Minister of power Dr Lanre Babalola has stated Nigeria will need a "consistent and sustained" investment of $10 billion (£6.2 billion) over the next ten years to achieve its electricity generation target of...

Category: Energy

China loans 48 million USD to Cameroon for an electricity generating station

11/01/2010

The Chinese government has recently agreed a loan of 48.3 million Dollars to finance the hydroelectric plant at Mekin in the south of the country.

Louis Paul Motaze, Minister of the Economy, stated at the signing of the loan...

Bridge between Senegal and Gambia to be completed soon

11/01/2010

Senegal Head of State Abdoulaye Wade has announced a project to construct a bridge between his country and Gambia at a meeting of the Council of Ministers.

He has held two meetings with his Gambian counterpart Yahya Jammeh, in...

World Bank: Rail network will change Uganda

11/01/2010

Completing Uganda's rail network would be good for east Africa as a whole and would make a big difference to the country's economy and regional integration, the World Bank president has said.

Robert Zoellick announced his...

Category: Transport

India and China taking part in the refurbishment of infrastructures in the DRC

08/01/2010

The electricity generating plant at Katende, which supplies the West Kasai region, is soon going to be serving the East Kisai in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A representative of the national electricity company made the...

Cameroon to get £30m for hydro-electric project

08/01/2010

The governments of Cameroon and China have signed a loan agreement through the Exim Bank of China for the execution of the Mekin hydro-electric plant for FCFA 22 billion (£30 million).

Building a dam on the River Dja capable...

Category: Energy

Nigeria 'has undertaken 1,106 power projects'

08/01/2010

The minister of power Dr Lanre Babalola announced at a press conferences this week that the Nigerian government had undertaken 1,106 energy projects in a bid to boost electricity availability in the country.

He stated 428 of...

Category: Energy

Algeria: More than 40 billion US Dollars to increase electricity production

07/01/2010

Forty two billion Dollars: That is how much Sonelgaz, the Algerian energy company is planning to invest in the production of electricity between now and 2019.

Noureddine Bouterfa, CEO of the Group, made this announcement last...

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