The Republic of Malawi is seeking to boost investments in its growing infrastructure sector by becoming the second Southern African member country of Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), Africa’s leading infrastructure development finance institution. Malawi’s AFC membership has been touted as a progression of the Corporation’s existing investment footprint in the country. AFC had previously acted
Africa’s policymakers, governments, and stakeholders must develop smart cities in order for the continent to achieve middleincome status, industry professionals have said. A smart city is an urban area that uses different types of electronic data collection sensors to supply information which is used to manage assets and resources efficiently. Socio-economic experts made the declaration on the
By Hartmut Winkler POWER FEATURE Over the last few years reports have surfaced of a range of African countries planning nuclear power plants. At the moment, the only nuclear plant in operation in Africa is South Africa’s Koeberg, producing 1.86GW of power. This, according to some African leaders, is about to change. Ugandan President Yoweri
The President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission (Nigatom), Simon Pesco Mallam, has said that Nigeria targets its first nuclear energy plant by mid 2020. He made this known at the just-concluded 2018 AtomExpo in Sochi, Russia. In his words, “we have a roadmap and that is by the mid
A new round of consultations on Ethiopian Renaissance Dam was launched recently in Addis Ababa. The 9 hour round included three way closed door meetings attended by the Ministers of Water and Irrigation from Egypt, the Sudan and Ethiopia. The meetings were also attended by 40 members of the three way technical committee and representative
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