Infrastructure

African infrastructure news: ports, railways, roads, airports, power plants, telecoms networks, and major construction projects across the continent.

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Eskom hunts billions for nuclear plan

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Africaspoint Editorial

Eskom is in exploratory talks with the World Bank, the African Development Bank and commercial lenders for a nuclear programme…

Wide view of railway tracks at Estación Linares-Baeza in Andalucía, Spain
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$2bn railway rewires Southern Africa

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Africaspoint Editorial

Zimbabwe and Zambia signed a $2.18 billion MoU on April 11 to build the 311-kilometre Lion's Den to Kafue railway,…

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AfricaFinance

BlackRock’s $28bn South Africa bet grows

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Africaspoint Editorial

BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners chairman Adebayo Ogunlesi disclosed at a Cape Town summit that BlackRock manages $28 billion in South…

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Angola and DRC build Africa’s biggest power interconnection

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Africaspoint Editorial

Angola and the DRC are advancing a $1.5 billion, 1,450-kilometre power transmission line to export 2,000 megawatts of surplus Angolan…

Angola GDP growth 5.3 percent non-oil diversification Q1 2026Dangote Refinery IPO

US-Iran truce sends oil crashing

A US-Iran ceasefire agreement and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz have sent Brent…

Africa startup funding May 2026 $259 million Bima NALA LemFi fintech reboundAI

MTN’s MoMo is going super app

MTN Group Fintech has partnered with Ant International, the global payments firm behind Alipay, to…

Africa GDP 4.2 percent growth fastest economies 2025 2026Uganda Airlines Boeing 10 aircraft fleet expansion Museveni 2026

AfDB backs Arua airport in Uganda

The African Development Bank has approved $180 million to upgrade Uganda's Arua Airport into an…

South Africa immigration xenophobia Ramaphosa March deportation crackdown 2026South Africa Infrastructure

South Africa braces for June 30

South Africa's police service has activated joint operations in all nine provinces at a projected…

Africa infrastructure projects 2026 constructionAfrica shipping routes Hormuz Cape Good Hope ports 2026

Lamu, Mombasa, Tanger Med: Africa’s ports are winning

Africa Forward Summit 31 billion investment TotalEnergies 2026France Africa partnership Macron Ruto

$31bn in deals: what Africa got from the Nairobi summit

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Africa infrastructure projects 2026 constructionAfrica shipping routes Hormuz Cape Good Hope ports 2026

Africa is the world’s new shipping hub

South Africa Transnet rail freight private operators reform logistics corridors 2026
Africa infrastructure projects 2026 constructionEnergy

SA ends rail monopoly: 11 operators in

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