Business Day Live (South Africa): INDEPENDENT regulators of economic infrastructure should be able to penalise anticompetitive behaviour by firms and state-owned enterprises, many of which are monopolies, the Development Bank...
Creamer Media's Engineering News: Africa’s economic potential as the next leading source of global economic growth could remain unfulfilled if the barriers to international and inter-regional trade were not addressed, Trade...
Jeune Afrique - La Banque africaine de développement (BAD) compte lancer prochainement un emprunt obligataire de 22 milliards de dollars pour financer des infrastructures (routes, ports, aéroports...) dans ses États membres....
Africa is no longer the "lost continent" of popular imagination. The region has been growing rapidly for over a decade, the private sector is expanding, and a new class of consumers is wielding...
Infrastructure is the physical systems – the roads, power transmission lines and towers, airports, dams, buses, subways, rail links, ports and bridges, power plants, water delivery systems, hospitals,...
The potential to grow intra-African trade is significant and, while it has more than doubled over the past five years, it remains a disappointing figure, Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African...
Governance technologies developed by Global Voice Group (GVG) for telecommunications regulators enable emerging and developing countries to set up efficient and innovative funding...
The Angolan government has announced the construction of the country's first wind power plant, in the Tombua region, according to the Angola Press. The project, which is expected to be completed by 2016, has been commissioned in...
ICA will require a suitably qualified individual consultant over a period of 3 months (commencing September 2012) for REVIEW OF THE ICA STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN (2010-2012/2013).
Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua has revealed details of the substantial investment the country will make in infrastructure projects in Africa over the next few years, iol.co.za reports. Earlier this week, it was confirmed that...
The World Bank has announced that it is to help finance a number of significant infrastructure projects in the west African state of Nigeria. According to the Bank, it is set to provide a seed fund of $200 million to create a...
The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced that it is helping to fund some major infrastructure projects in the west African state, which is seeking rapid economic expansion, Vanguard reports. To this end, the Bank has agreed to...
Le président ivoirien Alassane Ouattara a annoncé dimanche 29 juillet 2012 que le gouvernement chinois va investir en Côte d'Ivoire environ cinq milliards de dollars pour la réalisation d'infrastructures, notamment dans le...
Zimbabwe's beleaguered agriculture industry has been given a huge shot in the arm, with the sector being awarded a $13 million boost by the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), Financial Gazette reports. According to the...
BRAZZAVILLE, 24 juillet (Xinhua) -- Le magazine américain d'informations économiques et financières Forbes a lancé mardi à Brazzaville son édition dédiée à l'espace francophone, dénommée "Forbes Afrique".
The Plenary Session of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) was held on 13 June 2012, with the theme: ‘Unlocking Private Investment in Clean and Renewable Energies in Africa’. The Plenary Session was part of the 8th ICA Annual Meeting, held 11-13 June 2012 in Tunis, Tunisia.
The Lagos state government has revealed it is pleased with the rate of progress of work on the ten-lane Lagos-Badagry Expressway project, Vanguard reports. Dr Obafemi Hamzat, commissioner for works and infrastructure, expressed...
Heavy investment in a number of key infrastructure projects has been key to economic growth. That is according to economist Alves da Rocha, who explained that the improvements during the 2002-11 period has been central to the...
La Banque mondiale (BM) a signé lundi 16 juillet trois accords de financement d'un montant total de 186,4 millions de dollars avec la Côte d'Ivoire pour le développement des infrastructures du pays.
