Infrastructure News

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...

Increased trade from East Africa has prompted Tanzania and Uganda to jointly plan the development of a new railway line and ports on Lake Victoria.

The $2.7 billion (£1.67 billion) venture will see an 800km railway link a...

Thursday, March 31: The West African Development Bank (WADB) has approved eleven infrastructure projects with a total value of 185 million dollars.

The main ones are the project to construct...

Plans are afoot in Ethiopia to install a hydropower project by the River Nile.

The cost of the programme is believed to be around $4.7 billion (£2.9 billion) and it marks the first time the country has invested so heavily...

Three new refineries are to be built in Nigeria between 2011 and 2014, it was announced last Tuesday by the director of Refineries and petrochemical products of the NNPC, Philip...

South African construction company Group Five will develop a solar plant that will supply energy to the power utility firm Eskom.

The price of the project will come in at five billion South African rand (£455,000) and the...

The Angolan government wants to attain 80 per cent coverage for the supply of drinking water in the most remote areas of the country by 2012.

The announcement was made by Secretary of State for...

The minister for Energy and Mines, Mr. Youcef Yousfi, announced at the start of the week at the Popular National Assembly that the country would have its own nuclear power station within nine...

Work has begun on the Awoshie-Pokuase road and community development project in Accra, Ghana.

The cost of the development is $132 million (£82 million), with $83.6 million of the money coming from the African Development...

Last weekend in Algiers, the minister for Post and Information Technologies (TIC) organised a conference on the role of ICT companies in the creation of jobs.

Moussa Benhamadi announced that...

Construction on the 300MW Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) project in Kenya will start before the end of the year.

There have been setbacks in the development, but a letter of support has now been received from the Kenyan...

France has announced its intention to make a sum of 150 million euros available to Tunisia to finance a project to extend the natural gas network in the regions in the North-West...

The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Burundi promised, at the World Water Day assembly, that his country was going to invest in several projects aimed at augmenting the sources...

The implementation of a vast gas project by the government of Nigeria is to create more than 500,000 jobs.

This announcement was made last Thursday by Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, who said...

African infrastructure projects will benefit from World Bank investment.

A new policy is being launched that will replace the Africa Action Plan and it will have a wider remit than its predecessor, the East African reports.

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A "comprehensive" infrastructure development plan has been drawn up for Zimbabwe by the African Development Bank (AfDB).

It is hoped the project will help to improve the country's economic fortunes by creating jobs...

Last Monday, China granted a 500 million dollar loan to Zimbabwe to finance a number of projects in a multitude of sectors, including tourism, health, education, agriculture,...

The Senegalese government wants to finance a number of infrastructure projects over the next five years, costing a total of 3.4 billion dollars.

The aim is to "lift the country, in the...