Infrastructure News

New BBC News series on Africa

10/07/2013

The Witness

In a new BBC World News series, Rendezvous with Zeinab Badawi, presenter Zeinab Badawi meets leading African entrepreneurs, musicians, politicians and chief executive officers to ask the social, cultural, political,...

Category: General

Nigeria's Jonathan Seeks Infrastructure Funds From China

09/07/2013

bloomberg.com

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will take a group of state governors and key ministers to China next week, seeking to strengthen ties with the Asian nation in everything from power production to bond...

Category: Transport

China's 'soft power' bolsters Africa's new assertive diplomacy

09/07/2013

nation.co.ke

Africa's leaders have become more assertive in global affairs than ever before. This assertiveness is impelled by China's meteoric rise as a global power, concreting the multi-polar world order. A recent survey...

Category: General

EAC in renewed rail, road, energy push

08/07/2013

newvision.co.ug

"Implementation, implementation, implementation," were the closing words from Diarietou Gaye, the World Bank country director for Eritrea, Kenya and Rwanda at last week´s key regional infrastructure...

Handing Africa the power to charge ahead

08/07/2013

huffingtonpost.co.uk

Can Obama's 'Power Africa' Initiative Double Access to Electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa? Following in the footsteps of his two presidential predecessors, Obama unveiled his signature Africa initiative:...

Category: Energy

US Announces Power Africa Initiative

02/07/2013

Remarks by President Obama at Business Leaders Forum. Hyatt Kilimanjaro
. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 7:30 P.M. EAT

PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Please have a seat.  I apologize that we were a...

Rehoboth Sign-Up to Cellphone Banking Pre-Paid Electricity

01/07/2013

AllAfrica.com

First National Bank (FNB) has partnered with the Rehoboth Town Council to sell pre-paid electricity to Rehoboth residents via FNB's cellphone banking service.

Rehoboth is the latest town to make use of this...

Categories: Energy, ICT

Africa's Tech Engines

01/07/2013

AllAfrica.com

App and software developers are springing up in Africa’s tech-savvy markets. Better engineering training and a few breakthrough stories could promote long-term growth.

Much has been made in recent years of...

Category: ICT

The world’s fastest-growing continent

01/07/2013

economist.com

Celebrations are in order on the poorest continent. Never in the half-century since it won independence from the colonial powers has Africa been in such good shape. Its economy is flourishing. Most countries are at...

Category: General

Industrialization, Infrastructure, Trade Topped South Africa Talks

01/07/2013

AllAfrica.com

Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan led a delegation to the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa, which opened in Cape Town, South Africa on Wednesday. What has the delegation returned with?

Jonathan left...

Category: Transport

President Jammeh Pledges Electricity for Marakisa

01/07/2013

AllAfrica.com

The Gambian leader has pledged to provide Marakisa Ward in the Kombo Central District of West Coast Region (WCR) with uninterrupted electricity supply and a technical high school, among many other development...

Category: Energy

November 19th: World Toilet Day

19/11/2012

World Toilet Day is observed annually on 19 November. This international day of action aims to break the taboo around toilets and draw attention to the global sanitation challenge. Can you imagine not having a toilet? Can you...

Category: Water

Nigeria: 'Gombe - Our Roads Are to Stimulate Economic Growth'

19/11/2012

AllAfrica.com - interview

Gombe — Engineer Hadi Shehu Usman is the Gombe State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure and is currently handling the multi billion Naira road projects across Gombe state. In this interview....

Category: Transport

African aviation growth accelerating – Boeing

19/11/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News - US aerospace group Boeing has reported that the rate of growth in airline traffic in Africa has been better than it forecast last year."There's growth in demand, growth in...

Category: Transport

Great opportunities and challenges for African airlines

19/11/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News - Aviation is a key enabler for the development of international trade and tourism for and within Africa, highlighted South African Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba in his keynote ...

Category: Transport

Nigeria: Launch of the Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Improvement Project in Oyo and Taraba States

14/11/2012

African Development Bank - The Governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai, on October 24, and the Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Chief Moses Alake Adeyemo, on November 1, launched the Urban Water and Sanitation Improvement...

Category: Water

AfDB Organizes the Second All-Africa Energy Week

12/11/2012

The African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Union Commission (AUC), and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) have co-organized the second “All Africa Energy Week (AAWE)” event to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from...

Category: Energy

Launch of Flagship Road Project in Kenya: Nairobi–Thika superhighway

10/11/2012

African Development Bank - The Presidents of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, and the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, have launched today “the most ambitious infrastructure project in Kenya’s history”: the Nairobi–Thika...

Category: Transport

AfDB-funded Thika Superhighway: A masterpiece for East Africa “A national pride” – President Mwai Kibaki

10/11/2012

African Development Bank - The 50-km Nairobi–Thika superhighway, described by Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki as a source of “national pride” during its launch on November 9, covers an area that lies within the Nairobi...

Category: Transport

AfDB Assists in Launch of Turbi–Moyale Road Upgrading Project

09/11/2012

African Development Bank - The construction of the Turbi–Moyale road upgrading project, which is part of the third and last phase of the Mombasa–Nairobi–Addis Ababa Road Corridor Development project, was launched in Moyale, a...

Category: Transport

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