Africa's first high-speed rail, Morocco's "bullet train" now in full service. The £1.5bn system has trains traveling 322kph following the coast from Tangier to the capital Rabat and the commercial hub Casablanca, featuring air-conditioned smartly-designed cabins with plush seats. pic.twitter.com/Klm5Ct7l9h

— James Hall (@hallaboutafrica) March 29, 2019

From disaster, a ray of good news. Beira Mozambique was 90% destroyed by Cyclone Idai, but the port infrastructure made it through because of good planning. Not one shipping container was lost: They were shifted from high stacks to low pyramids, and the giant cranes were anchored pic.twitter.com/uAggWeksGK

— James Hall (@hallaboutafrica) March 28, 2019

Namibia's Walvis Bay port is now well into a US$400 million expansion/modernisation (4 new giant grants for loading ships cost $36million) to rival any port on Africa's southwest coast. Work is the largest Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) project in Namibia's history. pic.twitter.com/p2SrrkPg03

— James Hall (@hallaboutafrica) March 28, 2019

We’ve just announced our biggest transport project in #SolomonIslands in decades: upgrades to Honiara and Munda airports, and Malaita’s road network: https://t.co/gA3xLgNsQz pic.twitter.com/WDamHwSXIJ

— World Bank East Asia Pacific (@WB_AsiaPacific) March 31, 2019

Nearly 1 billion people remain unconnected to electricity around the world, half of them in Sub-Saharan #Africa 🌍. Disruptive tech could leapfrog Africa into an energy-connected world 🔌💡.

See how: https://t.co/DETP1lF605 #ACF2019 #IFCmarkets pic.twitter.com/EmpYLkYHpL

— World Bank Africa (@WorldBankAfrica) March 29, 2019

1 km of fiber costs $30,000 and #Africa needs 500,000 km of cable to achieve full Internet connectivity. We won’t make you do the math—that’s $15 billion. ➡️ https://t.co/QkjmRYuMdF #ACF2019 #IFCmarkets pic.twitter.com/RvyQGhF4PA

— World Bank Africa (@WorldBankAfrica) March 27, 2019