Inspiring Leadership & Sustainable Business Transformation in Africa
KENYA – Family Bank, a commercial bank, has signed a KSh350 million (US$2.96m) two-year partnership with Aqua for All to facilitate increased lending to medium and small-scale water enterprises supplying low-income communities with safe drinking water. Aqua for All, a foundation that specializes in innovative finance for water and sanitation, and Family Bank are targeting Community-Based Water Service Providers in…
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KENYA – Davis & Shirtliff, a supplier of water related equipment in the East African region, has appointed its long-serving finance director George Mbugua as the new CEO, taking over from David Gatende who retires after 36 years with the company. The change of guard comes as the water and energy solutions provider is redefining its distribution strategy to capture…
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SOMALILAND – Aptech Africa, an EPC company that provides solar and water pumping solutions, has commissioned a solar powered reverse osmosis water treatment plant in Caynabo, Somaliland. This project was funded by UNDP and used a reverse osmosis system supplied by Genius Water. The system has a nominal flow is 6m3/s. The flexotank capacity is 45m3/s which can fill at…
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AFRICA – The Opec Fund for International Development (OFID) is expanding its partnership with the organization Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL). The goal is to accelerate access to clean cooking around the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. SEforALL is an organization that works in partnership with the United Nations (UN), governments, the private sector, financial institutions, and civil society to…
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EGYPT – Pylon, an Egyptian infrastructure management company for water and electricity companies in emerging markets, has raised a US$19 million seed round aimed at advancing software for water and electricity companies. The round, which was a combination of debt and equity, was led by Endure Capital from the US, backed by British International Investment (formerly CDC Group), the development…
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TANZANIA – The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) has approved a US$125.3 million loan to finance the first phase of the Dodoma Resilient and Sustainable Water Development and Sanitation Program in Tanzania. Specifically, the loan from the African Development Fund, the concessional window of the African Development Bank Group, will cover the construction of a dam…
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EGYPT – Metito Holdings is set to partner with Scatec and Orascom Construction, and the government of Egypt to build a solar-powered seawater desalination plant in Egypt. Three companies want to invest in the supply of drinking water in Egypt. They are the Emirati company Metito Holdings, the Norwegian group Scatec and the Egyptian company Orascom Construction, gathered in the…
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KENYA – The Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) has approved KSh1.2 billion (US$10.5 million) in funding for Kenya. The country’s Water Sector Trust Fund (WaterFund) will reinvest the funds in the construction of water and sanitation infrastructure in six counties. “This funding is in addition to the KSh3.5 billion (US$30.74 million) already provided by the Danish government to provide water…
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MOZAMBIQUE – The Indian High Commissioner to Mozambique, Ankan Banerjee, has signed a memorandum of understanding worth US$10 million with the Mozambican government to support the drinking water sector. This funding supports a drinking water supply program that will benefit the populations of the Mueda district, in the Cabo Delgado province. The Indian funding, provided in the form of a…
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TANZANIA – German start-up Boreal Light is commissioning a solar-powered desalination system in the Kibaha district of Tanzania located in the Medewell health center, providing water for patient care. The new system was installed by Kenyan start-up WaterKiosk Africa, which partners with Boreal Light, a provider of water desalination solutions. “This system is the largest of its kind installed in…
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