Infrastructure News

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 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...

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 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...

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...

A Canadian company has been awarded a C$7.8 million (£4.9 million) contract to provide industrial water treatment systems to a number of areas including North Africa.

H2O Innovation - which has over ten years experience in...

East Africa is set to embrace nuclear power as it seeks to improve its energy infrastructure in the future.

It is hoped the move towards this type of energy will lead to a reduction in the use of carbon-based fuels, the East...

South Africa's energy infrastructure looks set to increase as the African Development Bank (AfDB) is to provide funding for wind and solar projects.

Power utility company Eskom looks is to get $270 million (£166...

The sixth meeting of the Africa-European Union energy partnership (PAEE) opened Wednesday last at Port-Louis, on the island of Mauritius.

A large number of experts will take part in...

Major spending is required in order to improve Africa's energy infrastructure, one expert has claimed.

Emmanuel Nzabanita, manager of the energy finance division for eastern and southern Africa at the African Development Bank...

Africa needs to heavily invest in its transport and energy infrastructure if it is going to encourage economic growth.

J Kofi Bucknor, managing partner of private equity firm Kingdom Zephyr Africa Management, told Reuters there...

March 9 in Bujumbura, the government of Burundi started a national campaign to promote low-energy light bulbs (LEBs).

The reason this campaign came about is to reduce energy consumption by...

South Africa's energy infrastructure is to receive a boost as a 30MW power plant is to be built.

Engineering and project management consultancy RSV Enco Consulting (Enco) said the project will be used to bring electricity to...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has agreed to give Nigeria a $34.3 million (£21 million) loan to finance capacity building for Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).

Under the terms of the agreement, the money will be...

Japan and Morocco, through the Japanese Bank of international cooperation (JBIC), have signed an agreement in order to extend their cooperation in the domain of infrastructures and the...

Energy infrastructure in Ghana will be enhanced by a bio-fuel project.

The scheme is being carried out by Indian-owned company Abellon CleanEnergy and is expected to provide power for over 100,000 homes, IANS reports.

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