Infrastructure News

To solve issues regarding unsafe drinking water and poor sanitisation, problems affecting the specific area in question need to be addressed.

Jae So is a manager for the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and made this comment...

Tanzanian energy supplies look set to be boosted via a coal power project funded by $400 million on loan from China.

Kiwira has at least 35.14 million tonnes of coal deposits and in two years' time will generate 200 MW, said...

A new telecoms agreement has been signed between two companies that will provide mobile banking services for Africans.

Monitise has entered into a joint venture with Paynet, which already operates an established payment network...

World Bank president Robert Zoellick has said more support will be given to Rwanda in its efforts to strengthen nationwide energy supply and infrastructure.

He is currently on a three-country tour of Africa and travelled from the...

Bloomberg reports that over the next five years Tanzania will be investing close on 5 billion Dollars in upgrading its transport systems.

This first renewal project forms part of the first phase of the investment programme...

The transport system in Tanzania is to be improved via $5 billion (£3.02 billion) the country will spend on it over the next half-decade, it was announced this week.

Bloomberg reports that infrastructure development minister...

The Government of Kenya has recently announced that two potential construction sites have been identified for its future nuclear power station, as SciDev.net reports.

The first potential site is close to the Kenyan coast, and is...

In Nigeria, the oil-for-infrastructure deals failed due to the management of the Obasanjo government, a report has claimed.

The review - A Thirst for African Oil - was published today (August 10th) by Chatham House and examined...

A new trunk road project in Gabon has just been officially launched by the Head of State, Rose Rogombé, in Koulamoutou. The new highway will link La Leyou and Lastourville with the aim of achieving the socio-economical...

A sum of 296.7 million Dollars has been released by the World Bank to finance an electricity project for domestic consumption and export in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to APA.

Among the investments made...

A power plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could hold the key to improving the nation via efficient governance and development, it has been claimed.

World Bank president Robert Zoellick is currently touring three...

American companies should be encouraged to look at the practice of building private rail, power and port assets in Africa.

This is the opinion of president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, Rwanda's leader Paul Kagame, Botswana's...

The power infrastructure in South Africa (SA) could face huge disruptions due to workers going on strike.

If the National Union of Mineworkers' (NUM) 16,000 employees at the country's largest electricity firm Eskom do not receive...

A major highway upgrade project in the DRC has just been launched in Kisangani, on Saturday, 1 August 2009, in the presence of British Ambassador Nick Kay and Bongeli Emile, Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Reconstruction.

The...

President of the World Bank Group Robert B Zoellick is set to visit Africa next week to help encourage more financial support from donors and investors.

Funding urgently needed for the continent during the current economic crisis...

A loan of 80 million Dollars has been granted to the Zimbabwe national electricity company, it was learned on Tuesday, 4 August 2009.

The financing was obtained from the Development Bank of Southern Africa, which specialises in...

Some €385 million (£327.5 million) is to be given to the United Republic of Tanzania via government channels in an effort to provide it with infrastructure and budgetary support.

The European Commission announced this...

The first phase of a major road project in Gabon was launched today.

Linking Yaounde, Libreville and Brazzaville, the route is the largest of its kind the African Development Bank Group has ever financed.

The organisation will...

On 31 July 2009 Prime Minister Paul Biyoghe Mba gave the go-ahead for a major project to upgrade ten airports in Gabon.

The Prime Minister in fact travelled to Lambaréné in order to oversee the official launch of the work.

He...

A rainwater retention reservoir will be created as from February 2010 in the village of Ndjib Niass, in Senegal.

Minister of the Environment and Reservoirs, Djibo Kâ, made the announcement at the end of last week during a visit...