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1. Benin aims for 50 percent rural electrification from renewable energy by 2025

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   12 April 2011 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 by 2025. "At present, the supply situation for energy services to the population is not brilliant, especially in isolated and enclosed area where less than 3 percent of households benefit from electricity, with a connection rate of about 6 percent", explained the minister, quoted by the APA press agency. Elsewhere, in Angola, the minister for Energy and Water, Emanuela Vieira Lopes,…

2. WADB lends over 11 million USD to Benin

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   24 May 2011 The West African Development Bank (WADB) has granted a loan of 11.3 million dollars to Benin in order to contribute to the funding of a road infrastructure project. This is the project to improve the Ouidah-Tori-Allada road and the Pahou –Tori access road, over a distance of 53.5 km, the total cost of which will be 49 million USD, reports the APA pres agency. "The implementation of this project will contribute to the intensification of trade and to the intermingling of populations between Togo, Benin and Niger", explained the president of the WADB, Christian Adovèlandé, last Wednesday at the signature…

3. EU to invest 83 million USD in Benin in 2010

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   16 February 2010 The European Union is going to invest 83.1 million Dollars in Benin this year, it was learned on Friday 12 February. Françoise Collet, head of the EU delegation in Cotonou, made the announcement at a press conference. The funds, allocated within the framework of the European Development Fund, will be invested in particular in a number of infrastructure projects The national media have reported that Benin has need of upgrading projects with regard to infrastructures of electricity production and distribution. In the latest edition, the newspaper La Nouvelle Tribune made reference…

4. ADB lends Benin more than $49 million for a highway project

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   20 April 2010 The African Development Bank (ADB) has lent a package of 49.4 million Dollars to Benin in order to finance a project for upgrading the key highway linking Ndali-Nikki-Chicandou to the Nigerian border. This financing consists of a donation of 32.5 million Dollars and a loan of 16.9 million. The work will include the preparation and asphalting of 77 km, and should be completed in June 2013. The aim of the project is to contribute to the opening up of the interior of the company and the strengthening of regional integration and the growth of regional exchanges, as reported in an ADB press…

5. Togo and Benin enter the fibre optic age

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   18 September 2009 A Nigerian company, Phase 3, is going to be extending its fibre optic network to Benin and Togo, it was announced on Wednesday 16 th . The Phase 3 Group has signed an agreement with the Electricity Community of Benin for the development of high-speed Internet. With this contract, Phase 3 will be operating one of the largest fibre optic networks in West Africa. More than 1400 km of overhead cables will be constructed in Benin in the next six months. “This project is a first step towards economic integration and the progress which we so much desire”, said one of the Phase 3 directors, Stanley…

6. MTN awarded Benin Republic and Cote d'Ivoire licences for broadband investment

   Home › News & Events › Infrastructure News › MTN awarded Benin Republic and Cote d'Ivoire licences for broadband investment

   30 March 2012 MTN, one of Africa's leading communications providers, has been awarded a universal licence in Benin Republic and a 3G licence in Cote d'Ivoire, with both set to lead to large…

7. Africa’s ICT sector and China

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   preferential loan for Benin’s telecommunications sector, part of which will be used to develop the country’s broadband network. Huawei employs around 10,000 people across Africa, with an emphasis on local staff…

8. IFC Public-Private Partnerships Seminar: Ports, held 12-13 April 2010 in Cairo

   Home › News & Events › Events › IFC Public-Private Partnerships Seminar: Ports, held 12-13 April 2010 in Cairo

   International Finance Corporation (IFC) PARTENARIAT PUBLIC PRIVE POUR LA MISE EN CONCESSION DU TERMINAL A CONTENEURS AU PORT DE COTONOU AU BENIN Ministère de la Prospective, du Développement et de l’Evaluation des Politiques Publiques et de la Coordination de l’Action Gouvernementale  | République du Benin BENIN PORT - PRIVATE CONCESSION OF A CONTAINER TERMINAL International Finance Corporation (IFC) EIB…

9. 85 million USD from EIB to support projects of WADB in West Africa

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   and Benin, projects to extend electricity lines in Benin and Senegal and the renovation of the port of Dakar, reports the EIB on its website.   Categories: Transport , Energy…

10. PowerPoint Presentation

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    BENIN PORT – Private Concession of a Container Terminal CAIRO, April 13, 2010 PORTS Public Private Partnership Seminar 2 AGENDA • Introduction and context of IFC mandate • Main…