Infrastructure News

The Board of the African Development Fund approved on Thursday, September 20, US $348 million in funding for a US $1.26-billion electricity highway project between Kenya and Ethiopia.

Due for commissioning in November 2017,...

Creamer Media's Engineering News: Provider of temporary power and temperature control services Aggreko Southern and East Africa, opened a new service centre in Walvis Bay, Namibia, last month.

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IPP Media: Taking over the Fly 540 Tanzania operating licence, FastJet, at the weekend, announced plans to set up their very first base here in Dar es Salaam. “We will be enabling people who currently couldn’t even dream of...

NEPAD Water Centres of Excellence: CYRIL Gamede, the new CE of Umgeni Water, says there are enough engineers in South Africa and perceptions of shortages have arisen because employers do not want to train up newly qualified...

Africa Review: In what must be construed as a warning to the other Nile waters sharing countries, both President Bashir and his Egyptian counterpart reaffirmed their countries “identical position” in regards to the water ...

African Development Bank: In its 69th meeting held in Bangkok, September 9-13, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approved a new ...

IPP Media: The East African business community will be able to save on transport costs by $1.9bn by 2015 if the East African Community (EAC) Partner States rehabilitate northern and central corridors, according a new report...

IT News Africa: Vodacom is planning to launch South Africa’s first multiplatform mobile application development workshop aimed at strengthening the mobile app eco-system in South Africa. This workshop will be launched in ...

PRweb: A new policy brief recommends how governments, non-state actors and communities in sub-Saharan Africa can contribute to meeting the United Nations’ 2015 Millennium Development Goal on ensuring safe and clean drinking...

ABN digital: Reshaping South Africa's ICT sector is a key priority especially within the broader infrastructure roll out planned by the government, which is the bedrock of its economic strategy to fast track growth. The sector...

Une convention de 680 milliards FCFA vient d’être paraphée entre la Banque Islamique de Développement et l’Etat du Sénégal. La stratégie africaine d’Ahmed Mohammed Ali en marche. Conformément à sa nouvelle feuille de route,...

Les 5 ministres des pays membres de la Commission Internationale du Bassin Congo-Oubangui-Sangha (CICOS) ont arrêté à hauteur de 1 milliard 535 million de francs CFA (environs 2339939,02 euros), le budget pour des travaux en...

Think Africa Press: Africa’s energy demand is forecast to dramatically expand as rapid urbanisation and economic growth push consumption to new heights. Yet the continent is currently plagued by poor power infrastructures and ...

Leadership: If all goes as planned, it is expected that by the first quarter (Q1) of 2013, the privatised generating companies would have been taken over by the new investors and expectedly, the Q2 and Q3 of 2013 the recovery ...

Justmeans.com: Denmark has a long history with Africa. From the 17th to 19th centuries, the relationship was primarily that of colonizer and colonized, as the small European nation established several trading posts and forts...

Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank - Speech at the Annual Conference of Speakers of African Parliaments: “African Economic Integration - Time to Raise the Bar”Midrand, 30th August, 2012

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HydroWorld.com: Stupendous in magnitude, the Grand Inga project envisages 40 GW of hydropower capacity in the Inga valley, some 250 km west of Kinshasa on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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Deutsche Welle: As Morocco's economy grows, it needs more and more energy - some ten percent more each year. A new wind farm outside Tangier is now one of the country's biggest and most promising energy providers.

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The Observer: Now that Uganda has entered the Energy and Environment Partnership (EEP) with other southern and East African countries, aiming at boosting the use of renewable energies, Ugandans with creative and innovative...

AllAfrica.com (The New Times): As a way of unravelling infrastructural challenges that have remained a major obstacle to the integration process, the EAC Secretariat has turned to Europe seeking funding for regional...