Infrastructure News

Senegal will receive a combined African Development Fund loan and grant amounting to 18.74 billion CFA francs approved by the Fund's Board on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 in Tunis, to finance the country's Water and Sanitation...

World Bank

The World Bank Group's Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$100 million grant to the Republic of Burundi for the Jiji and Mulembwe hydropower project.
 


Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) is suffering from a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...