August 05, 2014
Nigeria: Nigeria Deploys GE's Mobile Gas Turbines, Bringing Financing Services to Return Largest Refinery to Full Power and Production Capacity
GE's Trailer-Mounted Aeroderivative Gas Turbines to Provide Port Harcourt Refinery with Uninterrupted Power to Overcome Local Grid Outages GE's Three TM2500+ Units to Enable… Read more »
Ghana: GE Partners with the Millennium Challenge Corporation to Provide $500 Million in Financing to Ghana 1000 Project
Financing to support development of largest power park in sub-Saharan Africa Project to boost Ghana's power generation capacity by 50% Read more »
August 04, 2014
Africa: GE To Invest $2 Billion in Africa by 2018
GE convenes African Heads of State, government representatives, & business leaders at U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Read more »
July 31, 2014
Kenya: Meeting a BURNing Desire
Mueni Saumu who lives in the informal settlement of Kawangware, 15km west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, is transforming her life. A simple decision to use the innovative Jikokoa… Read more »
Kenya: $2 Do-It-Yourself Solar Lamp Brings Better Light To Poor
When the sun goes down on almost 1.3 billion people around the world, the only respite from the darkness is fire. Read more »
July 11, 2014
Nigeria: It's a Wrap - GE Garages Powers Innovation in Nigeria
GE Garages in Lagos, Nigeria may have wrapped up this week, but its legacy will live on through the buzz and excitement created at the events over the past three weeks. Over 500… Read more »
June 25, 2014
Nigeria: GE Launches "Garages" Skill-Building Centre in Nigeria
Garages Nigeria will run from 23 June to 11 July at GE's regional headquarters in Lagos, and will expand into a program dedicated to training skilled entrepreneurs, employable… Read more »
June 17, 2014
Africa: USADF and GE Partner to Launch Off-Grid Energy Challenge in Two Rounds
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June 12, 2014
Nigeria: Nigeria Deploys GE's Mobile Gas Turbines, Financing Services to Return Largest Refinery to Full Power and Production Capacity
GE’s Trailer-Mounted Aeroderivative Gas Turbines to Provide Port Harcourt Refinery with Uninterrupted Power to Overcome Local Grid Outages GE’s Three TM2500+ Units to… Read more »
Africa: GE Launches Distributed Power Business to Help Boost Local Energy Security throughout Africa
Announces Plans for Diesel Offering, Currently in Test and Planned to be Shipped Later This Year GE's Distributed Power Providing Communities and Industries with More Reliable,… Read more »
March 17, 2014
South Africa: Let the Train Blow the Vuvuzela: South Africa's Transnet Buys Advanced GE Locomotives
South Africa’s Transnet Freight Rail moves every pound of coal and iron ore exported by the country, and close to a fifth of the nation’s freight. That makes the… Read more »
May 20, 2014
Africa: CNN Announces GE-Sponsored Energy and Infrastructure Category in CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards
GE sponsorship will help highlight Energy and Infrastructure issues in Africa Call for entries from all journalists across the continent Read more »
May 07, 2014
Nigeria: GE Launches Kujenga Citizenship Programme at WEF Africa
GE launches citizenship program, GE Kujenga at WEF Africa The three main pillars of the program are Empower, Equip and Elevate Through Kujenga, GE is committed to building… Read more »
Nigeria: GE Foundation, Duke University World Healthcare Tech Lab, and Engineering World Health Establish Biomedical Equipment Training Program in Nigeria to Build Skills and Improve Capacity
The GE Foundation, in collaboration with the Developing World Healthcare Technology Laboratory at Duke University and Engineering World Health, is developing a new Biomedical… Read more »
May 09, 2014
Nigeria: Innovative $20 Million Partnership at the World Economic Forum to Reduce Preventable Child-Maternal Deaths in Nigeria
Partnership sees formation of the new Healthymagination Mother & Child Initiative aimed at tackling maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria – one of Africa's biggest… Read more »
May 07, 2014
Africa: GE Launches Kujenga Citizenship Programme at WEF Africa
GE launches citizenship program, GE Kujenga at WEF Africa The three main pillars of the program are Empower, Equip and Elevate Through Kujenga, GE is committed to building Africa's… Read more »
May 09, 2014
Africa: GE, USADF and USAID Launch Off-Grid Energy Challenge in Six Countries
To launch Challenge in Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania Entries are open from now through June 20, 2014, in this second round of the Challenge, and can be… Read more »
May 07, 2014
Nigeria: GE and Dangote Foundation Announce Plans to Launch Manufacturing Garages for Technology Skills Acquisition
Training for youths on new manufacturing and production technology to enhance employability The Garages program will also support entrepreneurial growth across all economic sectors… Read more »
April 16, 2014
Africa: Harnessing Resources and Expertise for Development - Jay Ireland, GE Africa
Prepared remarks by Jay Ireland, president and CEO of GE Africa, at the inaugural Africare 'Creating Opportunities for Development in Africa (CODA) Summit' at the U.S. Chamber of… Read more »
April 13, 2014
Nigeria: GE Commits to $2m to Upgrade Technical College in Cross River State
to equip school with modern with modern training facilities/workshops school may be training ground for technicians to feed GE multibillion dollar factory in Calabar Read more »
September 13, 2013
Africa: Family Matters: GE Technology Helps Healthcare Providers in Africa
The rural health clinic in Kimalamisale, Tanzania, sits at the end of a rutted sandy road some 160 miles from the nearest large town of Kisarawe. Although the brightly colored… Read more »
October 19, 2012
Kenya: Can You Hear Me Now? Telecom Orders For Next-Gen Durathon Battery Top $63 Million Since July Launch
Every day, Kenya's capital Nairobi goes four hours without power. That's the price of a growing economy bumping against creaky infrastructure struggling to keep up. The blackouts… Read more »
January 09, 2013
Uganda: Brine Science: How Salt and Ingenuity Purify Water for Thousands in Asia and Africa
Early last summer, Sister Mary Ethel Parrot dropped by the office of WaterStep, a Louisville charity fighting waterborne disease around the world, and picked up a pair of tote bags… Read more »
September 30, 2013
Algeria: Postcards from Tatooine: Modified GE Jet Engines Give Algeria's Desert Province Power Lift
The Tatooine-like landscape of the M'Sila province in northern Algeria provides the country's Mediterranean coast with a rugged bulwark against the encroaching Sahara desert.… Read more »
January 31, 2014
Nigeria: GE Attributes Global Human Resource Leadership to Corporate Philosophy
Lagos, Nigeria: General Electric (GE), a global technology and infrastructure company says its global rating as the world's best company for leadership is due to its human resource… Read more »