Infrastructure News

Some $12 million (£7.2 million) is to be invested by Angola's state-owned oil company Sonangol to improve the Sao Tome and Principe port.

The funding will be used to help improve the small island nation's port and...

Construction of a new terminal at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is expected to be completed by the end of 2012, ministers have revealed.

Bloomberg reports that the expansion will allow the airport, which serves...

Last Tuesday, China signed a loan agreement with Cameroon for 540 million dollars for the realization of a hydroelectric dam project in the South of Cameroon.

This is the hydroelectric dam...

The vice-president in charge of the ministry of Energy, Idi Nadhoim, announced last Monday that India was going to grant a loan of 41.6 million dollars to finance an electrification project for the island...

The Senegalese head of State, Abdoulaye Wade, announced on April 28 that Senegal was rejecting nuclear power in order to concentrate on renewable energies.

He made the announcement at the inauguration...

A leading Kenyan energy firm has secured a Sh7.4 billion (£53.6 million) loan to finance the construction of a new 280-megawatt geothermal energy plant.

KenGen will receive the cash in a deal between Germany's...

Transport infrastructure in Mozambique is set to be boosted by news that a $102 (£61.7 million) million airport is to be built in the northern city of Nacala.

It is hoped that the new facility will help expand existing...

Improvements in transport and energy are needed in order for Central Africa to realise its full growth potential.

It follows news that the African Development Bank (AfDB) said in a report that Central Africa has the worst...

Kenyan firms looking for finance for renewable energy projects and investments will be boosted by the news that a new fund has been set up to allow manufacturers easy access to funding.

The deal between Kenya Association of...

The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is to provide a 50 million euro package to the Société nationale d'électricité sénégalaise (SENELEC) to renovate its generating plants.

Dov Zerah, director of...

"Cameroon will have more than 5,000 kilometers of optical fiber cable by the end of this year", the Xinhua press agency was told on Tuesday by the minister for Post and Telecommunications,...

A project aimed at developing wind power in Tunisia has just been initiated by the Agence nationale pour la maîtrise de l'énergie (ANME) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP),

Headed "Private...

Transport infrastructure in Kenya is set to be improved thanks to a multi-million dollar loan from the World Bank, Reuters reports.

The financial body has revealed that it will be lending $300 million (£180 million) to...

The construction of a high-voltage alternating current line at a cost of 24 million dollars started last Thursday at Thika, in Kenya.

This double line, 27 km long, links...

A 10.5 million dollar loan has been granted to Senegal by the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (ABEDA).

It will contribute to the funding of a project for drinking water access in...

A biofuel production project in the province of Maputo, Mozambique, received funding last week of 20 million dollars from the Italian government, reports the Xinhua press agency.

Joao Alves,...

As part of plans to export electrical power to its African neighbours, the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has revealed that installation of power transmission lines that stretch to Sudan and Djibouti have been...

Last Monday in Lome, the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (ABEDA) and Togo signed a financing agreement concerning a project to renovate road infrastructure in Togo.

The financing...

Kenya's sole fuel processor Kenya Petroleum Refineries has hired an engineering consultant to assist in an $899 million (£545 million) upgrade.

The work will involve construction of a new pipeline to the western town of...

The Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) has claimed that investment in Mozambique's coal industry is leading to an economic boom in the nation.

Maccuhub has reported that funding for the emerging industry in Tete province has...