Actualités sur les infrastructures

A quelle énergie africaine les USA s'intéressent-ils?

27/11/2013

Libération

Jocelyne Sambira, d'Africa Renewal écrivait dans un article 12 novembre 2013 que dans cinq ans l'Afrique pourrait connaître des améliorations significatives en matière d'énergie, grâce à la récente initiative...

Catégorie: Energie

Nigeria sees strong growth but oil account fears rise

21/11/2013

Financial Times

Nigeria´s economy expanded at the fastest rate this year in the third quarter, but the country´s fiscal situation has deteriorated with the further depletion of the rainy day oil savings account.
 


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Catégorie: Energie

Eskom Declares South Africa Emergency on Power-Cut Risks

21/11/2013

Bloomberg

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which generates 95 percent of South Africa´s electricity, declared an emergency after it lost generati ng units, instructing metal producers to cut use and raising the risk of power cuts in...

Catégorie: Energie

Barrages hydroélectriques : imbroglio contractuel avec Coder Gabon

21/11/2013

Gabon Review

700 milliards de francs CFA ! Telle serait la somme que l´Etat gabonais sera amené à payer en cas de résiliation officielle du contrat avec la société CODER Gabon. Pourtant, malgré le refus du Président de la...

Catégorie: Energie

AfDB fully supports low-carbon transport agenda at UN Climate Talks

21/11/2013

All Africa

"Mainstreaming adaptation and climate change resilience into transport infrastructure development is a gradual process that is to be tackled at a strategic level," was a key message from the African...

Catégorie: Transport

Africa experiences the most road fatalities in the world

21/11/2013

New Era

Even though the African region remains the least motorised region in the world, the same cannot be said regarding road traffic fatalities, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

According to statistics from...

Catégorie: Transport

Africa: Coal Industry Must Diversify to Avert Worst Impacts of Climate Change - UN Official

21/11/2013

UN News Service



The coal industry must radically transform and diversify to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, a senior United Nations official said today at a meeting in Poland, stressing that companies must assess...

Catégorie: Energie

Connect Africa: Driving the online highway

21/11/2013

Times Live

Is your internet connection fast enough? Google's Brett StClair suggests a simple test: go to YouTube and see if you get what he calls "the international sign of poor connectivity" - those rotating flashes...

Catégorie: TIC

AfDB Raises $1.7bn For Green Energy Investments

21/11/2013

Ventures Africa

The African Development Bank (AfDB) mobilized $1.7 billion of climate mitigation finance in 2012, more than any other development institution on the continent, to fund a $2.2 billion climate-focused investment...

Catégorie: Energie

Africa: Satellite's Next Biggest Hot Spot

21/11/2013

Via Satellite

Africa has a population of more than 1 billion people and there is still significant lack of terrestrial infrastructure in many countries, broadening the digital divide. This scenario means satellite is well placed...

Catégorie: TIC

For self sustainable Africa, we need direct investment

20/11/2013

News24

People need a good condition to do it by themselves. In our corrupt countries, with poor local political decision making killing our economies especially by careless government officials who don't know what's best for us...

Catégorie: Infrastructures générales

Gestion de l'eau: Le Maroc érigé en modèle par la BAD

20/11/2013

Aujourd'hui le Maroc

Des experts d´une douzaine de pays africains ont pris part, mercredi à Rabat, à un atelier régional de partage des résultats de l´évaluation du secteur de l´eau et de l´assainissement, deux domaines dont la...

Catégorie: Eau

Les leçons de l'Afrique

20/11/2013

Le Huffington Post

L'Afrique a beaucoup appris au Fonds mondial et à la communauté internationale au cours des dix dernières années. Les Africains ont acquis des connaissances vitales en matière d'épidémiologie qui leur...

Catégorie: Infrastructures générales

Empowering Africa's Entrepreneurs

20/11/2013

Forbes

Ashish Thakkar launched his first company - buying and reselling computers - when he was 15 years old.No, despite that boyish face, it that wasn´t last year - it was 1996, two years after he and his family fled the...

Catégories: Infrastructures générales, TIC

Do Africans buy into the booming Africa narrative?

20/11/2013

Aljazeera

Despite all the praise for the continent's economic growth, the general population does not see positive prospects. The global banking giant Goldman Sachs's report on South Africa, released early November, was titled,...

Catégorie: Infrastructures générales

COP19: Balgis Osman-Elasha on the African Development Bank Group's climate change framework

20/11/2013

RTCC

Balgis Osman-Elasha, Climate Change Specialist, African Development Bank Group talks about developing a framework to monitor and evaluate the progress of the African Development Bank Group's climate change action...

Catégorie: Energie

How the foreign aid industry demeans Africa

11/11/2013

The Spectator (UK)

The Norwegian students' group which last year came out with the brilliant 'Africa for Norway' spoof video has again released a hilarious film lampooning the aid industry for the stereotypes they...

Catégorie: Infrastructures générales

Africa: Prime Minister Hailemariam Urges Africa to Establish Its Own Media Network

11/11/2013

Government of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)

Prime Minister Hailemariam urged participants at the African Media Leaders Forum to consider building a continental media network.

The theme of the African Media Leaders Forum, meeting this...

Catégorie: TIC

Kenya: AfDB Okays Sh7 Billon Loan for Water Project

11/11/2013

The Star

Along queue of jerrycans at a kiosk run by Kimwasco during a past water shortage in Kitui. Photo/FileThe African Development Bank has approved a Sh7.83 billion loan for a water project covering Kitui and Makueni...

Catégorie: Energie

Transform Africa Summit Ends with the Launch of Rwandapedia

11/11/2013

All Africa

Over 300 guests attended Transform Africa Summit's Cultural Gala where Rwanda last week launched its digital archive of cultural and historical information called Rwandapedia to tell the story of the country from its...

Catégorie: Infrastructures générales

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