Infrastructure News

MoU to help AfDB focus on infrastructure

24/04/2014

Infrastructure News

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and Africare have signed a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen the Bank's capacity to use a community-focused lens while designing its programs and...

Category: General

Investors scramble for Emerging Nigerian oil firm Seplat

24/04/2014

Business Day

Investors are betting on the emergence of a Nigerian made global brand or African champion in the oil and gas space with the scramble for shares of Seplat Petroleum Development Company, which raised $500 m in an...

Category: Energy

Bringing Power to Africa, Literally

24/04/2014

FreeNewsPos.com

During President Obama's trip to Africa in 2013, he made four major commitments. Some in his administration have referred to the commitment as the four points of a diamond, each addressing a critical need in...

Category: Energy

Focus on Africa, says tech investor

24/04/2014

News24

Emerging markets are where investors should focus their energies to secure a place in the next wave of growth in technology companies, an industry insider insists.

"Ten years ago, I couldn't say 'I was global' if I...

Category: ICT

Transport infrastructure before development

24/04/2014

The Africa Report

While African governments and development partners are investing more in roads and rails infrastructure much more needs to be done for any meaningful socioeconomic impact to be made.
 


The Democratic...

Category: Transport

Addis Ababa to host US-Africa Energy Summit

23/04/2014

The Reporter

The governments of Ethiopia and the United States will co-host the US-Africa Energy Ministerial (AEM) meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from June 3 to 4.

According to the Ethiopian Ministry of Water and Energy, AEM...

Category: Energy

Nile dam study fails to stem the tide of Egyptian indignation towards Ethiopia

23/04/2014

Guardian.co.uk

Claim and counter-claim has attended the delayed publication of a report on the likely impact of the Grand Renaissance dam.

The opening sentence of Egypt's new constitution describes the country as the river...

Categories: Water, Energy

Water Wars? Think Again: Conflict Over Freshwater Structural Rather Than Strategic

23/04/2014

Sodere Ethiopians News and Entertainment

The global water wars are almost upon us!At least that´s how it seems to many. The signs are troubling: Egypt and Ethiopia have recently increased their aggressive posture and rhetoric...

Category: Water

Transport: Aviation and Maritime reforms beckon

23/04/2014

The Africa Report

Africa's aviation industry is beginning to pick up thanks to the continent's impressive economic growth, but with seaports infrastructure largely abandoned in many countries in Africa over the years, there is...

Category: Transport

Africa's Tech Edge

23/04/2014

The Atlantic

How the continent's many obstacles, from widespread poverty to failed states, allowed African entrepreneurs to beat the West at reinventing money for the mobile age.

It's a painfully First World problem: Splitting...

Category: ICT

Kenya Power eyes fibreglass poles to lower electricity transmission costs

23/04/2014

BiztechAfrica

Kenya Power plans to roll-out fibreglass poles in place of wooden poles, to reduce the cost of maintenance.

Despite the fibreglass poles being more expensive than current alternatives, they have a life span of...

Category: Energy

On bumpy roads and rails

23/04/2014

Africa Renewal

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (D RC), which sprawls over 905,000 square miles, is the second largest country in Africa. Fifty four years after independence, the DRC has no roads connecting one end of the...

Category: Transport

Highway upgrade between Tanzania and Kenya

23/04/2014

eTN

The planned highway between Arusha, Tanzania, and Voi in Kenya is now finally due to start in June this year. The project worth nearly US$235 million will be largely financed through the African Development Bank, with the...

Category: Transport

AfDB, others ink US$142m power deal for Zambia

23/04/2014

APA

The African Development Bank (AfDB), Dutch Development Bank FMO, Development Bank of Southern Africa and Propaco of France on Wednesday signed a US$142-million loan to develop the 120-megawatt Itezhi Tezhi power project in...

Category: Energy

Facebook s'apprête à lancer un service de transfert d'argent à l'international

23/04/2014

Agence Ecofin

Le réseau social Facebook a entamé des discussions avec la Banque centrale d´Irlande et des start-ups londoniennes en vue de lancer un service de transfert d´argent à l´international, rapporte le quotidien...

Category: ICT

Smart solar energy for Africa

23/04/2014

Deutsche Welle

The Berlin-based Mobisol company is bringing power to places where there has been none. By combining mobile phone technology and solar power generators, the company aims to electrify African homes.

To get an...

Category: ICT

Carlyle clôture son premier fonds dédié à l'Afrique subsaharienne

23/04/2014

Jeune Afrique

Le capital-investisseur américain Carlyle a annoncé la clôture de son premier fonds dédié à l´Afrique subsaharienne à 698 millions, soit 40 % de plus que l'objectif qu'il s'était initialement fixé.

Le géant du...

Category: General

Carlyle closes sub-Saharan Africa fund at $698m

23/04/2014

Financial Times

The Carlyle Group has closed its maiden private equity fund targeting sub-Saharan Africa at $698m, 40 per cent above target, underscoring the growing appeal of investing on the continent.
 
Africa attracts a...

Category: General

Tanzania: Kikwete eyes private funding for central transport corridor

23/04/2014

The Citizen

The government seeks to mobilise funds from both local and international sources so as to improve the central transport corridor -- especially by expanding Dar es Salaam Port and revamping the central railway...

Category: Transport

Cap-Vert: L'énergie des ondes pour dessaler l'eau de mer

11/04/2014

Pana

Le Cap-Vert veut utiliser l'énergie des ondes pour dessaler l'eau de la mer - Un projet-pilote de la technologie de dessalage de l'eau de la mer à partir de l'énergie des ondes de la mer sera implanté dans l'île...

Category: Water

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