Infrastructure News

World Bank Group Launches New Global Infrastructure Facility

14/10/2014

Move paves way for institutional investors to help fill infrastructure gaps in developing world: US$1 trillion a year in extra investment needed through 2020.

Category: General

Electricity in Africa: Lighting a dark continent

29/09/2014

The Economist

The stylishly dressed men and women window-shopping in the air-conditioned cool of the Lagos Palms shopping mall speak of a Nigerian economy and middle class on the rise.

But out the back, the stench of diesel...

Category: Energy

AfDB Board approves US $29.49 million for Burundi road project

29/09/2014

PR Newswire

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 approved a US $29.49-million grant to help finance the first phase of the Nyakararo-Mwaro-Gitega (RN18) Road...

Category: Transport

Africa could become single air transport market by 2016

29/09/2014

Xinhua

Africa could become a single air transport market that will remove the need for bilateral air services agreements by early 2016, the industry lobby said on Wednesday.

African Airlines Association (AFRAA) Secretary...

Category: Transport

AfDB and sister institutions committed to move forward on the sustainable transport agenda with US $175 bn in financing

29/09/2014

PR Newswire

The historic one-day UN Climate Summit opened on September 23 in New York City with 125 heads of state in attendance. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and US President Barack Obama urged all nations - developed and...

Category: Transport

Gambia: '98% of LRR has access to clean drinking water’

29/09/2014

Daily Observer

The regional water motivator in the Lower River Region (LRR), Kantong T. Marena, has disclosed that 98% of the population of the region has access to clean and potable water. He informed that only a few people,...

Category: Transport

En Afrique, les bâtiments consomment 50% de l'énergie électrique

22/09/2014

APA

Le secteur des bâtiments en Afrique consomme 50% de la consommation totale en énergie électrique, a affirmé mardi à Dakar, Serigne Mansour Tall, point focal de l'ONUHABITAT au Sénégal.

« Au total, 50% de la consommation en...

Category: Energy

Gulf Companies Commit $19 Billion to West Africa Infrastructure Projects

22/09/2014

The Wall Street Journal

African countries secured commitments from companies in the Persian Gulf totaling $19 billion to invest in roads, railways and airports at the first West Africa Investment Forum held in Dubai on...

Category: General

Energy In Africa: Development And Environment


22/09/2014

Forbes

It's always interesting to attend conferences in far away places because of the change in perspectives. At the World Energy Security Forum (whose organizers I advised) in Johannesburg, there was the usual discussion of...

Category: Energy

Private Equity Investment Is The Future Of Energy In Africa

11/09/2014

AFK Insider

Last month's announcement of a partnership between Africa richest man Aliko Dangote and private equity fund Blackstone Group to invest to the tune of $5 billion exclusively in energy infrastructure represented a...

Category: Energy

Africa Can Become Important Power Production Source - Official

11/09/2014

Angola Press

Africa is one of the regions of the world with major unexplored energetic reserves, which expands its chances to become one of the main energy producers.

This was said Tuesday in Luanda by the CEO of the National...

Category: Energy

AfDB Approves U.S. $256 Million Investments in Infrastructure, Water, Sanitation and Health

11/09/2014

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) held its first regular meeting since the Bank returned to its statutory headquarters in Abidjan on Monday, September 8 and approved a combined US $256 million...

Categories: Transport, Water, General

Kenya: State inks Sh70bn power deal with AfDB

07/08/2014

Business Daily

Kenya Power's subsidy programme is set for phase out in a Sh70.1 billion deal that the State has signed with African Development Bank (AfDB) to raise electricity connections to 70 per cent of the population in...

Category: Energy

La téléphonie mobile en plein boom sur le continent africain

23/07/2014

Le Monde.fr S'il reste inférieur à celui des Européens ou de certains Asiatiques (plus particulièrement Japon, Corée du Sud, Chine), l'usage du téléphone mobile en Afrique se développe.
 


Le continent, qui a littéralement...

Category: ICT

How should I go about investing in Africa?

23/07/2014

The Telegraph.co.uk

Ask an Expert: the continent is tipped as the next region to boom but how can investors take advantage?There are several approaches. First, there are a handful of specialist funds. Alquity Africa,...

Category: General

Africa sees infrastructure as a necessity

22/07/2014

CNBC

Africa, as a whole, has begun to link the necessity for infrastructure with the industry itself, says Andrew Johnstone.

"The linkage between the necessity for infrastructure and industry go hand in hand now. Ministers...

Category: General

Kaberuka addresses Africa's infrastructure gap at OECD

22/07/2014

BiztechAfrica

African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka made a strong case for the importance of tackling private investment impediments in the African infrastructure agenda during the joint AfDB, Organisation for...

Category: General

Power: Inga III will have to wait

21/07/2014

The Africa Report

With the legal framework, tenders, impact studies and financing still to be finalised, construction of the dam is unlikely to start before the end of 2016.
 


Despite the desire of President Joseph Kabila...

Category: Energy

Les investissements chinois stimulent le développement de l'Afrique

21/07/2014

Xinhua

D'après le Rapport d'enquête 2013 sur l'attractivité de l'Afrique, publié ; par le cabinet d'audit financier Ernst et Young le 6 mai dernier,cité par le magazine la Chine au Présent, le continent africain attire...

Category: General

OCDE : Donald Kaberuka veut remédier au déficit d'infrastructures en Afrique

21/07/2014

PR Newswire

Venu à Paris pour participer à une réunion conjointe de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), de l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE) et de l'International Growth Center (IGC),...

Category: General

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