Infrastructure News - Year: 2011 - Month: June

The natural resources found in Africa could help the continent continue to develop and improve its infrastructure.

According to the World Bank's Shantayanan Devarajan and Marcelo Giugale, the commodity boom in Africa may...

The Angolan provincial drinking water supply company in Luanda (EPAL), Angola, is currently connecting 700,000 households to the drinking water supply in all the urban areas of the capital, reports...

Work will begin soon on a transport infrastructure development in order to aid an iron ore project in West Africa. Sundance Resources has confirmed that it will begin construction of rail networks and a port at its Mbalam iron...

June 26: The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a finance agreement totaling 163 million Euros with Tunisia to co-finance a road modernization program.

The aim is to improve the...

South Africa's green energy industry will be boosted by developing its clean technology solutions, it has been suggested. Energy economist at the African Development Bank (AfDB) Tanja Faller has spoken about the benefits of...

The financial support given to Southern Africa by the African Development Bank (AfDB) has grown considerably over the last few years. According to a report published yesterday (June 27th 2011), the group increased its loan and...

The Central African States Development Bank (CASDB) announced last Friday that it was going to finance several infrastructure projects in its member countries amounting to a total of 22 million...

The West African Development Bank (WADB) has granted two loans to Senegal totaling 47.6 million dollars to finance two projects in the domain of electricity infrastructure.

The first loan,...

A transport project in East Africa has been given an investment boost of $30 million (£18.29 million). The World Bank has agreed to additional financing for the East Africa Trade and Transport Facilitation Project. Its...

The African Development Bank (ADB) could grant up to 617 million dollars to Tanzania over the next three years as part of a new five-year development strategy, reports the Xinhua press...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has confirmed a loan to help pay for a highway in Tunisia to show its continuing support for the country's transport infrastructure expansion.

A fund of €137.34 million (£122.04...

Senegal is to receive financing of almost 28 million dollars from the German cooperation agency, the KfW, as a contribution to the financing of several infrastructure, decentralization and local...

Construction work to build a railway line across Botswana has been scheduled for 2012, it has been revealed.

Chief executive officer of Walvis Bay Corridor Group Johny Smith told Reuters that the transport scheme to construct the...

The board of directors of the OPEC Fund for international development (OFID) announced last Sunday that it will provide a package of 56 million dollars in the form of loans and six million in...

By 2012, energy needs in Zambia may exceed supply, says Hanson Sindowe, chief executive of the mining company Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC).

He says the government will have to invest in this sector as a...

The World Bank has confirmed it will support an infrastructure project in West Africa.

Yesterday (June 21st), its board of executive directors gave its decision over whether to approve funding for the West Africa Regional...

The World Bank has approved plans for a transport initiative to go ahead in Uganda.

Last week, the group's board of executive directors gave the go-ahead for additional financing for the Transport Sector Development...

The World Bank is to grant 75 million dollars to South Sudan to contribute to the financing of infrastructure, health and employment projects, reports a press release from...

South Africa (SA) has confirmed an air traffic deal with Cameroon, which could see a boost to its transport industry.

Business Day reported that SA transport minister Sibusiso Ndebele agreed to open the skies with his Cameroon...

Last Thursday, the World Bank inaugurated a laboratory on applications for mobile telephones in Nairobi as part of a program intended to stimulate the development of information and...