Africa Power Firms Join to Light Up Dark Continent
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The latest scheme to spread electric light in Africa may sound familiar, but this time African leaders say they have the will, and financial backing, to succeed.
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South African government tells millions left in the dark by rolling power cuts likely to go on for years to look on the bright side
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Amid energy crisis, S. American region is growing dependent on their continent's poorest country.
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MERERANI, Tanzania  - The orange sun sets over the  Tanzanian mining town of Mererani as pick-up trucks take the  night shift to pits producing blue Tanzanite gemstones, and  tired workers trudge home in the opposite direction.
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An improving political climate, and the   potential for major mineral discoveries, has reawakened   interest in Africa among Australian mining companies that have   traditionally rated the continent too risky.
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A push into the solar sector could benefit the company.
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A new line of products from companies like Gap, Armani Exchange and Motorola aims to raise money to help fight AIDS in Africa.
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India and South Africa, two of the world's leading emerging markets, hope to boost business links as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits the African nation this week to build on their historic ties.
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Nationwide power outages shut down basic services across Zambia and Zimbabwe as anger mounted in South Africa over power cuts that have wreaked havoc in the continent's economic hub.
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These solar companies shine a light on their way to fast cash.
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American economist Jeffrey Sachs  has a novel way to tackle African poverty: Shower more aid on  the world's poorest continent.
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Faced with power cuts stretching into the next decade, South Africa is slowly switching its focus to alternative energy sources in a country blessed with bountiful sunshine and a lengthy coastline.
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How to tap and protect Africa's natural resources, the continent's role in the world and the information age's impact on African society are pressing themes as a summit of African leaders opens Thursday.Comment
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African nations have made surprising strides in carrying out changes that make it easier to start and run a business, a new report says.
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Construction began this week on the 4,500-kilometer East African Marine System (TEAMS) undersea fiber optic project that will link east Africa to the Middle East and the rest of the world, according to government officials.Alcatel-Lucent will construct the cable, which should be operational in next year&#39;s second quarter, for $82 million. The vendor won a tender for the project last year.The cable will provide affordable international broadband connectivity to several countries in east Africa, said Kenyan Minister of Information and Communication Samuel Paghisio. The cable, Paghisio said, will initially have a capacity of 40GB but will later be upgraded to 640GB.&quot;The cable will bring competition on the pricing of bandwidth, which means that the cost of communication in the region will come down,&quot; Paghisio said.The project is a joint venture between the Kenyan government and the United Arab Emirates government through Etisalat Telecommunication. The two governments own 20 percent shares each in the project. Eighty percent of project shares have been opened to the private sector.The cable will run from Mombasa in Kenya to a global network of fiber-optic cables at Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. The East African region includes Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia.Kenya is a member of the&#160;east African submarine cable system&#160;(EASSY), another submarine cable project that will run parallel to TEAMS project under the Indian Ocean from Durban, South Africa, to Port Sudan in Sudan and provide high speed Internet connectivity. The EASSY project will connect 21 countries in the eastern and southern Africa region to the rest of the world.
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PARIS, October 30  (IPS) - A new project to develop an integrated sugarcane  facility in Kenya could be a boost for biofuels production in  east Africa.
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Broadband Internet connections in  Africa are expected to more than double by 2011, but the  continent is falling further behind the rest of the world as  governments fail to open markets and drive down costs.