Infrastructure News - Year: 2012 - Month: March

BizCommunity.com - March 29, 2012

Government ministers attending the recent Innovation Africa Digital (IAD) Summit in Ethiopia, this week pledged their support for the ZA Central Registry's (ZACR) bid to become the dotAfrica...

News Time Africa - March 29, 2012

Despite Malawi registering surplus maize yields in recent years, food production in the southern African nation has been on the decline, a climate change study has indicated. Malawi has in the...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The leaders of five of the world's fast-rising powers agreed Thursday to move toward creating a new development bank that would improve access to capital for poor nations.

Accusing current international...

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 29, 2012

The South African government confirmed on Thursday that it had received a total of 79 tenders, representing 3 233 MW of potential power generation capacity, during the...

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 30, 2012

State-owned power utility Eskom has started to deploy a hybrid smart grid model that supports its legacy time- division multiplexing management system, while gradually...

DesignBuiltSA - March 23 & 29, 2012

Two newly uploaded videos in ICA energy infrastructure playlist:

1. Affordable Electricity in South Africa at a Tipping Point?

Mike Rossouw, Chairmen of the heavy energy users group in...

DesignBuiltSA - March 20 & 23, 2012

Two newly uploaded videos in ICA water infrastructure playlist:

1. Sappi Tugela River Project (South Africa)

Energy savings and load shifting capabilities at a water treatment and bulk...

L'Angola va investir 120 millions de dollars dans les prochains jours dans la construction du nouveau système d'approvisionnement en eau et assainissement de la ville de Malanje.

L'annonce a été...

Le ministre angolais de l'Energie et Eau, João Baptista Borges, a posé mardi dernier la première pierre du chantier de construction de la centrale thermoélectrique de Menongue, en Angola.

Elle...

MTN, one of Africa's leading communications providers, has been awarded a universal licence in Benin Republic and a 3G licence in Cote d'Ivoire, with both set to lead to large infrastructure investments. The firm will be...

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 28, 2012

Zimbabwe has short-listed eleven bidders for the expansion of its Hwange and Kariba South power plants, with a winner expected to be announced in the third quarter of this...

The South African.com - March 28, 2012

Below is the speech made by Tony Blair at the The Times CEO Summit Africa, 19 March 2012

“Without doubt Africa is on the move. Just consider the following: in eight of the past 10...

National Public Radio (US) - March 28, 2012

For the first time, oil has been discovered in the East African nation of Kenya. The country's energy minister quickly held a news conference. Holding up a bottle of crude, he...

Creamer media - March 28, 2012

The Real Economy Report from Creamer Media in Johannesburg:The Department of Water Affairs has recently closed in on some farms in the Vaal dam area for illegal water use. Megan Wait...

ABNDigital - March 28, 2012

The South African economy is highly dependent upon electricity production for its industrial commercial and domestic energy needs. Large shale gas deposits could augment primary energy supplies to...

allAfrica.com - March 29, 2012

ZIMBABWE'S current spending on infrastructure maintenance is significantly below par. African Development Bank (Zimbabwe) lead economist Mr Damoni Kitabire told the Herald Business that the...

cntv - March 27, 2012

JOHANNESBURG, March 27 (Xinhua) -- A South African government agency on Tuesday called for the BRICS group to participate in the African infrastructure development program, financing and potentially even ...

Creamer Media's Engineering News - March 27, 2012

Fossil fuels will continue to dominate Africa’s energy mix in the next three to five decades, but their depletion should be envisaged in the second half of the century, World...

The Guardian - March 28, 2012

The shells of stylish colonial-era buildings, like shipwrecks on the ocean floor, still give Maputo a distinct character. But the capital of Mozambique no longer feels like an urban museum. Amid...

Reuters - March 28, 2012

Cameroon has reached financing agreements totalling 52.89-billion CFA francs with two regional banks for the construction of the Lom Pangar hydroelectricity project, a decree signed by the government...