Infrastructure News

Securing funding for renewable energy projects is vital if the sector is to expand in South Africa (SA), it has been claimed.

??The ability to attract finance and improve grid infrastructure are key in the big-scale deployment of...

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), an institution which is a member of the World Bank group, has just awarded an investment guarantee to support the ContourGlobal KivuWatt project,...

Five multi-national corporations have announced plans to provide sustainable access to safe drinking water in Africa.

The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF), Diageo plc, WaterHealth International (WHI), and the International...

Econet Wireless has announced plans to invest $200 million (£122 million) over the next few years in its Zimbabwean operations.

The telecommunications giant is looking to increase its hold on one of Africa's emerging...

The works on constructing an extension to the autonomous port of Nouakchott, already under way, will be completed by the end of 2013, it has been learned by the APA press agency.

The President of...

Some $12 million (£7.2 million) is to be invested by Angola's state-owned oil company Sonangol to improve the Sao Tome and Principe port.

The funding will be used to help improve the small island nation's port and...

Construction of a new terminal at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is expected to be completed by the end of 2012, ministers have revealed.

Bloomberg reports that the expansion will allow the airport, which serves...

Last Tuesday, China signed a loan agreement with Cameroon for 540 million dollars for the realization of a hydroelectric dam project in the South of Cameroon.

This is the hydroelectric dam...

The vice-president in charge of the ministry of Energy, Idi Nadhoim, announced last Monday that India was going to grant a loan of 41.6 million dollars to finance an electrification project for the island...

The Senegalese head of State, Abdoulaye Wade, announced on April 28 that Senegal was rejecting nuclear power in order to concentrate on renewable energies.

He made the announcement at the inauguration...

A leading Kenyan energy firm has secured a Sh7.4 billion (£53.6 million) loan to finance the construction of a new 280-megawatt geothermal energy plant.

KenGen will receive the cash in a deal between Germany's...

Transport infrastructure in Mozambique is set to be boosted by news that a $102 (£61.7 million) million airport is to be built in the northern city of Nacala.

It is hoped that the new facility will help expand existing...

Improvements in transport and energy are needed in order for Central Africa to realise its full growth potential.

It follows news that the African Development Bank (AfDB) said in a report that Central Africa has the worst...

Kenyan firms looking for finance for renewable energy projects and investments will be boosted by the news that a new fund has been set up to allow manufacturers easy access to funding.

The deal between Kenya Association of...

The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is to provide a 50 million euro package to the Société nationale d'électricité sénégalaise (SENELEC) to renovate its generating plants.

Dov Zerah, director of...

"Cameroon will have more than 5,000 kilometers of optical fiber cable by the end of this year", the Xinhua press agency was told on Tuesday by the minister for Post and Telecommunications,...

A project aimed at developing wind power in Tunisia has just been initiated by the Agence nationale pour la maîtrise de l'énergie (ANME) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP),

Headed "Private...

Transport infrastructure in Kenya is set to be improved thanks to a multi-million dollar loan from the World Bank, Reuters reports.

The financial body has revealed that it will be lending $300 million (£180 million) to...

The construction of a high-voltage alternating current line at a cost of 24 million dollars started last Thursday at Thika, in Kenya.

This double line, 27 km long, links...

A 10.5 million dollar loan has been granted to Senegal by the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (ABEDA).

It will contribute to the funding of a project for drinking water access in...