PALWECO aims to deliver reductions in poverty, and improvements in livelihoods, by strengthening agricultural value chains with a holistic approach to the development of local and regional infrastructure. (Image source: thisisexcellent)

Maarit Hirvonen, chief technical adviser to the Programme for Agriculture and Livelihoods in Western Communities (PALWECO), spoke of the ways in which PALWECO has worked, and continues to work, towards delivering Finnish support for civil society in Kenya 

The IFC funds will be spent across sub-Saharan Africa’s energy and transport sectors. (Image sources: sxc.hu)

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced that it will offer US$4.3bn to Africas energy and transport sectors 

Standard Chartered wants to double its income from the African continent in the next five years. (Image source: Standard Chartered)

Standard Chartered will attempt to consolidate its position in Africa by investing US$100mn into its operations across the continent by 2015

Jacob Zuma. (Image source: South African Government Communication and Information System)

South African president, Jacob Zuma, has announced a US$97 billion, three-year building programme that will see roads, ports and access to utilities upgraded and coal and other mineral deposits exploited more effectively