Infrastructure News

Shell has just signed a contract valued at 101 million dollars for the construction of a gas pipeline in Nigeria.

The contract was concluded with local company Saipem Contracting Nigeria...

The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) plans to invest about R45 billion (£4 billion) in Africa this year to take advantage of growth opportunities in the continent.

According to the firm's chief investment officer,...

The Algerian government announced April 3 that it aims to generate 20,000 MW of electricity from renewable energies by 2030.

This program will need an investment...

Benin's minister for Energy, Sacca Lafia, announced last Thursday that the government intended to raise the rural electrification rate from renewable energy from its present three percent to 50 percent...

Some €25 million (£22million) is to be loaned by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to fund the Addax Bioenergy Sierra Leone (ABSL) project.

Included in the project are plans to develop a Greenfield sugarcane...

The World Bank has announced that it will finance the submarine fiber optic cable project, the African central Backbone (CAB), in Congo.

This cable will make it possible to establish a reliable...

Internet access across Africa's is set to be boosted by the introduction of a 14,000km ultra-high capacity fibre optic submarine cable system which links Southern Africa and Europe.

Named the West Africa Cable System (Wacs),...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has just inaugurated a project to supply the Tamanrasset region with drinking water.

The water is pumped into the artesian layer at a distance of more...

The BG Group has revealed its plans to invest some $300 million (£180 million) in Tunisia this year.

Reuters reports that the British-based oil and gas firm plans to increase its exposure in the North African country by...

New research has indicated that investment in Information Communication Technology (ICT) in sub-Saharan Africa will climb 9.9 per cent this year.

According to research conducted by the International Data Corporation (IDC),...

Some Dh36.73 million (£6.1 million) has been set aside by the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) to rebuild a road in the Republic of Gambia.

The refurbishment of the 141km road, which runs between Mandinaba and Soma,...

Total Gabon has signed an agreement with the Gabonese government on the modernization of the airport of Port-Gentil, it was announced this week by Gabonese transport Minister Julien Nkoghe...

March 28: The European Union has granted 12 million euros in aid for an infrastructure project relating to the transport and generation of electricity in Djibouti.

It will "improve the...

Some $356 billion (£218 billion) worth of investment is needed for renewable energy projects in Africa between now and 2030, it has been suggested.

The World Energy Council Africa regional manager Dr Latsoucabe Fall has...

An additional 32 trains, worth $230 million (£141 million), are due to be purchased as part of an agreement between South African state logistics company Transnet and Venus Railway Solutions.

The type 15E locomotives are to...

The purchase of R97 billion (£8.8 billion) worth of new stock for Metrorail and long-distance railway services represents a "significant milestone" in passenger rail transport in South Africa.

This is according to...

Energy infrastructure in Africa looks set to get a boost after it was announced that the African Development Bank (AfDB) has created a $57 million (£35 million) fund for renewable energy projects across the continent.

The...

Graham Smith, coordinator of the project "Development corridor in the province of Lower Congo in the South West of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)", has announced that the total bill for...

Barth Nnaji, energy advisor to the president, has announced that Nigeria is committed to achieving electricity generation of 5000 Megawatts by the end of December 2011.

He made this announcement at...

Major spending is required in order to improve and maintain the MR3 Ngwenya-Manzini road over the next decade.

The Swazi Ministry of Public Works and Transport has revealed that E1 billion (£92 million) will be spent in the...