Deficiencies in the power grid must be attended to if Nigeria's Afam power stations and Okoloma gas plant are to deliver on the target of 6,000 megawatts by December of this year, the government has conceded.
South Africa is tipped to see a real growth rate of 12.77 per cent for 2009's fourth quarter, according to a report from consultant Companies and Markets.
A vast investment in transport infrastructure and large-scale power...
Since 2001, investments in telecom and ICT infrastructure in Nigeria have totalled $18 billion (£11.3 billion) - and the country is keen on attracting more.
Chief executive of the communications commission Ernest Ndukwe...
Aminata Niane, general director of APIX, the agency for the promotion of investments and large-scale works, has just announced the launch of the second phase of the work on a new motorway in Senegal.
The African Development Bank (BAD) this week approved a loan of 53.3 million Euros to finance the upgrading of a screening plant at Gabel El Asfar, in Cairo.
The aim of the project is to improve the quality of waste water...
Private investment in information communication technology (ICT) is transforming the continent and has vindicated this finance model, Rwandan president Paul Kagame has been quoted as saying by the New Times.
Africa needs an estimated $39 billion (£24.3 billion) more than it is currently receiving to develop roads and other crucial infrastructure, authorities from the African Central Bank have said.
Key players in the sector of electrification in West Africa gathered in Douala, in Cameroon, at the beginning of the week, with the aim of co-ordinating their strategies in developing access to electricity in rural areas.
The German government has just made 37.4 billion CFA Francs (83 million Dollars) available to Senegal so as to encourage the development of renewable sources of energy and micro-credit.
Tunisia has just taken another step forward in the development of its own energy resources, with the signing of the first contract for the sale on credit of coal in the energy sector.
Even though the world economy has hardly emerged from the recession, the Algerian petroleum group Sonatrach is pressing ahead with its policy of investing in energy infrastructures.
Le ministre tunisien ministre des technologies de la communication a dévoilé lors d'une conférence à El Ghazala la mise en place d'un réseau mobile de 2ème et 3ème génération.
The Tunisian Minister of Communications Technologies...
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a loan of $61 million (£38.1 million) towards the Main One project, which aims to bring better broadband to West Africa.
