Rwanda: Adding 23mw to National Grid Tops Mininfra Priorities This Fiscal Year

 Rwanda will have added 23 megawatts of electricity to the national electricity grid before the end of June, next year, while 88 per cent of the country's households will have access to clean drinking water by then.   By then, construction of major infrastructure projects such as the planned Bugesera International Airport and some major roads will have also been launched, officials say.   The targets were revealed, on Tuesday, by officials at the Ministry of.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

Off-grid solar going from strength to strength in eastern Africa

 A new report by the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) found that approximately 50% of global investment made in off-grid solar in 2015 was in the eastern African region, as falling PV prices and favorable policies stimulate growth in the regional off-grid solar market.   There are few more heartening stories in the global solar industry than the proliferation of off-grid solar solutions in areas that lack reliable access to electricity. East.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

ABB to build hybrid-solar microgrid for Red Cross in Africa

 The Swiss technology company will incorporate solar PV and diesel into a single microgrid for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Nairobi, Kenya, to supply the hub with reliable power for the first time, while also announcing the completion of its share buyback program.   Various African nations are taking to innovative power solutions to solve a lack of reliable energy across much of the continent. Solar is playing a big role in these solutions, as we see.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

Kenya: Toyota Targets More Kenya Contracts After Signing Deal

 Japanese conglomerate Toyota Tsusho Corporation is eyeing more big-ticket contracts in Kenya after signing a support deal with the government.   The Nagoya-based company, a unit of the Toyota Motor Corporation, says it is ready to undertake several projects in diverse sectors of the economy including mining and power generation.   This will significantly expand its business in Kenya from the mainstay motor dealership which it serves through several directly and.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

Tanzania: Stamigold Workers Praised for Good Show

 Bukoba — State owned Gold Mining Company, STAMIGOLD, workers have been commended for good performance that has enabled the mine to achieve its target.   Board Chairman of the State Mining Corporation (STAMICO), Ambassador Alexander Muganda, made the remarks here on Tuesday during a tour of the company by members of the newly appointed board. The new board came into effect on July 2, this year.   Mr Muganda noted that in spite of several challenges, including.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

Tanzania: Farmers to Get Improved Coffee Seedlings

 Tanzania Coffee Research Institute (TaCRI) will distribute to farmers improved varieties of coffee seedlings to boost production as it marks international coffee day tomorrow.   TaCRI Technology Transfer and Training Programme Manager, Mr Jeremiah Magesa said here yesterday that the improved coffee seedlings are pest and drought resistant.   He said in various zones that cultivate coffee in the country growers will be engaging in planting the new coffee seedlings.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

Tanzania: 8 Small Investors Generate 30mW

 Dar es Salaam — Eight small-scale power projects (SPPs) have begun producing a total of 33.3MW in rural areas.   The projects are in eight districts. The investors, with generated megawatts in brackets, are Tanganyika Plantation Company (20) in Kilimanjaro; Tanganyika Wattle Company (1.5) in Coast, Tulila Hydro-power (5) in Ruvuma, Iyovi Hydro-power (0.95) in Morogoro, Andoya Hydro-power (0.5) in Ruvuma, Darakuta Hydro-power (0.32) in Manyara and Mwenga Hydro-power.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

Tanzania: CTI - Business Friendly Govt Key for Growth

 Dar es Salaam — The government has been advised to ensure drivers of industrialisation are in place to achieve and linked to attain the targets.   There should be hard and soft infrastructure.   Hard infrastructure includes roads, railways, ports, air and water system while soft infrastructure such as human resources and skills and finance.   Confederation of Tanzania Industries chairman Samuel Nyantahe told BusinessWeek that general unfrastructure is.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

Tanzania: Govt Finalizes Local Content Policy for Gas Sector

 Dar es Salaam — The government has said that it's currently in the last stages of compiling regulations for the local content policy for the gas and oil industry especially on the construction of a Liquidified Natural Gas (LNG) plant in Lindi.   The deputy minister Ministry of Energy and Minerals Dr Medard Kalemani said this on the sidelines of a local content meeting on the natural gas industry in Tanzania under the theme "Using finite resources to achieve.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

Kenya receives Shs2.5 billion grant to improve healthcare

 Kenya has received a Sh2.5 billion grant from the World Bank to improve on healthcare service provision.  Health Cabinet Secretary Dr Cleopa Mailu said the grant will be used to broaden the country's capacity to improve maternal and child health interventions and quality of care at primary health facilities.   Mailu stated the grant given through the Kenya Health Sector Support Project (2010-2018) will be used to scale-up the Result Based Financing (RBF) program to.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

Energy experts urge Kenyan banks to help fund agri-business

 Energy experts meeting in Nairobi have asked banks in Kenya and Africa in general to open up capital for funding agri-business.   Speaking at a side event of the International Off-grid Renewable Energy Conference (IOREC) currently under way in Nairobi, three experts in the solar power sector decried the lack of capital from banks for the agricultural industry.   Kenya general manager Charles Ahenda-Bengo said a lack of capital is the single biggest problem for.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

New Road Infrastructure set to Boost Trade Kenya-Uganda Trade

 Trade between Uganda and Kenya is projected to increase as the construction of a new and shorter route from Mbale to the Lwakaka border post in eastern Uganda kicks off.   The state minister for trade, Michael Kafabusa Werikhe, said when this road is complete, the quantity of exports and imports through Kenya is set to increase.   Warikhe was speaking at a contract-signing ceremony between Uganda National Roads Authority and Chinese contractor, China State.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016