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SA HEALTH MINISTER TO CUT SOD FOR CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST CENTRAL HOSPITAL

Posted on July 18, 2023 by Gambeta News

Minister of Health, Dr. Joe Phaahla, together with Acting Limpopo Premier, Seaparo Sekoati, will on Tuesday, 18 July 2023, preside over the sod-turning ceremony for the first Central Hospital in Limpopo. “This follows a feasibility study conducted and submitted to National Treasury in July 2018, which established a need to develop a new 688-bed academic hospital in the province. “The construction of this state-of-the-art hospital became one of the five flagship academic hospitals around the…

TOGO GOVT. SEEK FIRM TO BUILD LAND DIGITALIZATION PROJECT

Posted on July 17, 2023 by Gambeta News

Togo is looking for a third party to hand over its land register digitization project. The country’s Ministry of Economy and Finance recently launched an international tender to hire this party. According to the tender notice, consulted by Togo First, the successful bidder must complete the task within 3 months, after securing the deal. The tender should help modernize Togo’s land conservation system through digitalization. It falls under the Support Project for Governance and Private…

EKHO ANNOUNCED OPENING OF NEW FACTORY IN EGYPT WORTH US$48MILLION

Posted on July 17, 2023 by Gambeta News

Through a statement made by Egypt Kuwait Holding (EKHO) last Saturday, the company announced the opening of new factory and production lines in Egypt worth $48 million (LE 1.4 billion) through associate company Sprea Misr. The company, listed on both the Egyptian and Kuwaiti stock exchange markets, announced that the newly opened factory will produce sulfuric acid and increase the capacity of previously established lines and petrochemical factories. Managing Director of EHKO, Sherif El Zayat,…

HOW WESTERN CAPE INFRASTRUCTURE DAMAGE IS ESTIMATED AT R1BILLION

Posted on July 15, 2023 by Gambeta News

Following the recent severe floods, the Western Cape Department of Agriculture (WCDoA) released an updated assessment of the estimated financial cost of the damage. A rapid assessment conducted during the period 26 to 30 June 2023 confirmed extensive damage to riverbanks, irrigation equipment, private roads and sediment over vineyards and fruit orchards. According to WCDoA, the assessment considered damage to primary agriculture sites on the West Coast, Cape Winelands and the Overberg. The heavy rains…

WORLD BANK APPROVED US$300M FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SECOND HYDROELECTRIC DAM IN LIBERIA

Posted on July 15, 2023 by Gambeta News

The World Bank Group has pledged US$300 million to the Republic of Liberia for the construction of a second Hydroelectric Dam (SP-2) further up the St. Paul River in Lower Bong County. This project, when completed, will significantly increase Liberia’s hydropower generation capacity by an additional 150 megawatts. This hydro project will be the second of four dams to be constructed along the St Paul River. The World Bank announced the pledge at a donor…

GAMBIA SPORT MINISTRIES OUTLINES SEVERAL SPORTING PROJECTS

Posted on July 15, 2023 by Gambeta News

The Ministry of Youth and Sports under the leadership of Bakary Badjie is currently touring the country for the youth and sports projects being implemented under his ministry. According to the ministry, the five-day tour which began on Monday is in line with the ministry’s mission to deliver excellence in youth and sports development by ensuring that youth are guided towards entrepreneurship, employability, and leadership as well as by encouraging mass participation in sport. The…

HOW UNRA MERGER COLLAPSED IN UGANDA

Posted on July 11, 2023July 14, 2023 by Gambeta News

Seven months after the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) was to have wound down and its mandate remerged with its mother Ministry of Works and Transport (MoWT) under a grandiose cost-cutting plan, the agency remains untouched. That was the sense one got from the UNRA headquarters in Kampala as the organisation marked 15 years of existence on July 1. The celebrations are taking place at the start of a new financial year meaning UNRA staff…

FERTILIZER GIANT OCP TO HELP IMPROVE MOROCCO WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Posted on July 10, 2023 by Gambeta News

Moroccan fertilizer giant OCP has renewed its determination to continue boosting Morocco’s sustainable development through the signing of a new memorandum of understanding as well as a concession contract with the country’s government in a bid to help improve its water management efforts. Morocco’s government and the OCP group signed on Wednesday the agreements, under which the two will cooperate to improve drinking water by desalinating seawater for the Safi and El Jadida regions. The agreements form…

WESTPROP SET TO RE-CONSTRUCT GREENWOOD PARK IN ZIMBABWE

Posted on July 10, 2023 by Gambeta News

WESTPROP Holdings is turning Greenwood Park into a lifestyle theme park helping to complete the live, work, shop, and play environment for the communities living around the park. There is a nearby shopping center – Five Avenue Mall, office and residential buildings around the park. CEO Mr. Ken Sharpe said he was replicating the model that is now synonymous with all WestProp developments to Greenwood Park to provide residents in the avenues a recreation facility….

NUCLEAR POWER TO ENERGY MIX PROJECT ON COURSE IN GHANA

Posted on July 8, 2023 by Gambeta News

Ghana’s quest to add nuclear power to its energy mix is on course and progressing steadily, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, has said. He said as part of phase two of the project, the country had received feedback on six large reactors and small modular reactors which are key devices needed in the operation of the country’s first nuclear power plant. He said his ministry and the Ministry of…

KENYA GOVT. INVITES BIDDER FOR CONSTRUCTION OF INDUSTRIAL PARKS

Posted on July 8, 2023 by Gambeta News

Plans to construct aggregation and industrial parks across 25 counties have commenced after the Ministry of Trade and the Council of Governors issued a tender notice inviting bids from contractors. The interested National Contractors have until July 21 to submit their bid which must be accompanied by a 9 million Shillings guarantee in the form of a Bid Bond. The purpose of bid security is to protect the contracting entity from losses incurred if the…

GAMBIA MINISTER LAY FOUNDATION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A MOSQUE COMPLEX

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Gambeta News

The Minister of Health, Dr Ahmadou Lamin Samateh, recently laid the foundation stone for the construction of a mosque within the new complex of the Ministry of Health in Bijilo. The event commenced with the recitation of the Holy Quran by elders in the community. The project, contracted to Daru Salaam Construction Company, was financed to the tune of 35,000 Euros sponsored by Direct Aid. However, the site where the foundation stone of the new…

EGYPT GOVT. MAKING PLANS TO REACH 60% DEPENDENCE ON RENEWABLE ENERGY BY 2040

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Gambeta News

Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, Dr. Mohamed Shaker, confirmed that Egypt aims to reach 60 percent of dependence on renewable energy by 2040. Shaker explained that the Egyptian strategy was aimed at reaching 42% of the energy mix coming from renewable energy by the year 2030, but this strategy is currently being updated, based on the existing data and the availability of wind and solar energy resources and their low prices. He further added that…

UGANDA GOVT. EXTEND DEADLINE FOR RENOVATION OF NAMBOOLE STADIUM

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Gambeta News

Government has again extended the deadline for the completion of the renovation works on Mandela National Stadium, also known as Namboole. Whereas it had been said by the UPDF Engineering brigade handling the works that the stadium would be ready by last month, the Education Minister, Janet Museveni has said the actual deadline was August but noted this has been extended. “In light of these significant undertakings, I have approved an extension for these intervention…

KADOMA-SANYATI ROAD UPGRADE BEGINS IN ZIMBABWE

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Gambeta News

Upgrading of the strategic Kadoma-Sanyati Road that links the south of Mashonaland West to Gokwe North district in the Midlands, has resumed, with the responsible department also carrying out maintenance works. Provincial roads engineer, Simbarashe Gomo, said the upgraded road works were expected to meet laid down Southern African standards. “The Department of Roads has resumed upgrading of the road under the Roads Development Programme which earmarks to construct of 20km of road to standards…

ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF TWO-STORY BUILDING TRIAL BEGINS IN MOZAMBIQUE

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Gambeta News

The trial of four men accused of the illegal construction of a two-story building within a restricted area belonging to Beira airport began on 29 June in Beira. The building was being erected near air traffic control equipment and could pose a threat to communications between aircraft and the Beira airport control tower. So, in mid-2021, the Public Prosecutor’s Office embargoed all further work on the site. A prominent embargo notice was slapped on the…

CONSTRUCTION OF ZAREMA MAYDAY DAM TO RESUME IN ETHIOPIA

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Gambeta News

The construction of the Zarema Mayday irrigation dam, which was interrupted during the two-year war in Ethiopia’s north, will resume next year, according to the Ministry of Irrigation and Lowland Areas. The dam was conceived to supply water to the Wolkayit sugar factory, one of 13 sugar factories the Ministry of Finance (MoF) is working to privatize. The factory, located 1,030 Km from Addis Ababa in Tigray Regional State, was prioritized due to its expected…

RWANDA SPORT INFRASTRUCTURE MAKING WAVES AFTER POST GENOCIDE

Posted on July 3, 2023 by Gambeta News

Sports infrastructure is one of sectors that continue to make strides in Rwanda 29 years after the country was liberated. The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi left a number of major sports infrastructures destroyed and, just like other sectors, the country had to start from scratch in its rebuilding process and has since invested billions of Rwandan francs in constructing new facilities as part of promoting sports tourism. From football and basketball to Volleyball and…

EIB TO INVEST K200M INTO TWO FIRMS TO SUPPORT GREEN GROWTH

Posted on July 3, 2023 by Gambeta News

Two agribusiness firms in Mzuzu have received K100 million loans each from European Investment Bank (EIB) as part of a broader Team Europe Initiatives to support green growth across Malawi and southern Africa. The two businesses are Wijays Enterprises owned by Joyce Banda and Wallie Farms owned by Sheryl Karim. The two emerged winners after their business plans came out the best at the Boosting Women in Agriculture Pitch Night which the EU Delegation conducted…

BMW TO INVEST R4.2BILLION TO EQUIP ROSSLYN PLANT

Posted on June 30, 2023 by Gambeta News

Automotive giant, BMW, has announced that it will pour in some R4.2 billion in investment to equip its Rosslyn Plant in Tshwane to build the next generation BMW X3 hybrid plug-in vehicle. Production of the car is expected to begin in 2024 with some 300 employees at the plant to undergo specialist training. On Wednesday, at an event marking 50 years since the automotive manufacturer entered South African shores, Deputy President Paul Mashatile said the…

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