Infrastructure News

May, 2014 | Kigali  Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank, and Kandeh Yumkella, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Chief Executive of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL)...

The White House Blog

Congratulations to the 27 private-sector partners of "Beyond the Grid" - a new Power Africa initiative to unlock investment and growth specifically for off-grid and small-scale energy solutions -...

Guardian.co.uk

Researchers say increase will take place in next five years and will be double the rate of growth in rest of world.

Africa's claim to be the "mobile continent" is even stronger than previously thought,...

Power's World

BLACK AFRICA long went deeply down. Now it is rushing headlong up. But 'up' brings problems of its own. A country's policy makers have to work as hard in successful, speedy, times as they did when they moved...

APA

Le gouvernement américain a annoncé que des entreprises américaines avaient déboursé un milliard de dollars pour des projets énergétiques hors réseau en Afrique.

Selon cette annonce faite jeudi, les engagements comporteront...

Un sommet des dirigeants africains et du secteur privé se tiendra les 14 et 15 juin à Dakar pour trouver les voies et moyens de financer les projets d'infrastructures du continent.

Cette réuni on est organisée sous l'égide du...

PANA

Les États Unis ont lancé un plan de déploiement 'agressif' de l'énergie en Afrique qui a pour cible 2 millions de m&e acute;nages, a annoncé mardi, le Secrétaire d'Etat américain chargé de l'Energie, Ernest Moniz. Le...

PANA

L'ONG internationale WaterAid salue le leadership du Conseil des ministres africains chargés de l'Hydraulique (AMCOW) pour trouver des solutions à la crise de l'accès à l'eau potable et à l'assainissement en Afrique,...

Orlando Sentinel

United Nations Green Climate Fund Executive Director Hela Cheikhrouhou is seeking to raise as much as $15 billion by the end of the year to start financing projects in poor countries.

There are no hurdles...

Daily Independent

The U.S. has announced a new energy innovation tagged "Beyond the Grid'' to boost energy and address supply shortages in Nigeria and five other African countries.

The US Secretary for Energy, Ernest...

Africaguinee.com

En partenariat avec le gouvernement guinéen, le groupe Bolloré Africa-Logistic a lancé dans la capitale guinéenne le projet 'Blueline Guinée' en vue de doter le pays d'infrastructures modernes tournées vers le...

Vanguard

As part of efforts to boost water supply and improve sanitation in the country, the World Bank, African Development Bank (AfDB), French Development Agency (FDA), and Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA), have...

All Africa

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced a partnership with Microsoft to invest $20 million as part of proposed measures to African governments to promote the use of ICTs.

The announcement was made last week...

Gabonews

Le Groupe des Ambassadeurs africains en France s'est réjoui cette semaine, lors de la célébration de la journée de l'Afrique en France dans le premier arrondissement de Paris, de la croissance économique à deux chiffres...

Daily Independent

The World Bank and the French Development Agency have offered $243 million in grants for construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of rural feeder roads in four Nigerian states.

National Co-ordinator...

Solar Novus

Increasing solar energy supply in Africa could be the major driver in the continent's goal of achieving 5.2% economic growth in 2014 despite the low investment in the renewable energy technology.

The...

Nigeria Business News

Vice President Namadi Sambo on Wednesday said recent developments at the Shiroro Hydro Power Plant had shown that its recent concession by the Federal Government was not a mistake.

A statement by his...

Reuters

German industry's representative in Angola, Ricardo Gerigk, has a tough job drumming up business in Luanda, the costliest city in the world for expats, where contracts tend to go to firms from China, Portugal and other...

Aljazeera

Earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and South Sudan. Officials described his four-day tour of Africa as part of efforts "to encourage...

The Hill

Electricity expansion is the next big thing in U.S.-Africa relations. Boosting energy access is good for American business, good for American foreign policy, and transformative for millions of poor people-all at no cost...