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EGYPT GOVT. TO REVAMP GREATER CAIRO METRO LINE

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EGYPT GOVT. TO REVAMP GREATER CAIRO METRO LINE

The Egyptian government has taken concrete steps to revamp Greater Cairo’s first metro line as it signed a contract with Alstom to supply 55 air-conditioned trains, and an agreement with the French government to acquire funding worth €776.9 million. The development of the line includes introducing an automatic operation system of the trains and reducing headway to 2.5 minutes. What’s more, the local component will be 13.3 percent, and the project will be self-funded by…

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UGANDA’s GOVT SPEND Shs400B ON LUBOWA INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL

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UGANDA’s GOVT SPEND Shs400B ON LUBOWA INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL

The government has already spent up to Shs 400 billion on the stalled Lubowa International Specialized Hospital Uganda. This was revealed by Henry Musasizi, the state minister of Finance and Planning in charge of general duties while appearing before parliament’s finance committee to defend the ministry’s budget for the financial year 2022/2023. Musasizi’s revelation follows the demand by members of parliament to provide an update on the construction of the facility which commenced on March…

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GHANA NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE TO BUILD SEVEN COLLEAGES AND TRAINING SCHOOLS

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GHANA NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE TO BUILD SEVEN COLLEAGES AND TRAINING SCHOOLS

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has acquired a total of 1,510 acres of land in seven regions for the construction of Fire Colleges and Training Schools to train adequate personnel for the service. Three hundred acres each are at Kyebi, Eastern; Mion, Northern; AkatsiGefia, Volta; TongoBeo, Upper East, with 150 acres in BusaMamwe, Upper West, and 80 acres each at DuayawNkwanta, Ahafo, and Ejura, Ashanti. Currently, the Fire Academy and Training School (FATS) at…

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KENYA POWER SECURE Sh6bn TO CONNECT MORE CUSTOMERS

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KENYA POWER SECURE Sh6bn TO CONNECT MORE CUSTOMERS

The government has raised the allocation for subsidized connection of homes to the national grid by Sh1.48 billion in the year starting July, raising hope for thousands of households yet to get power supplies. The latest expenditure plans by the National Treasury show that Sh5.8 billion has been allocated for the Last Mile Connectivity Project (LMCP) — marking a 34.36% jump from the Sh4.31 billion that was approved for the program in the current financial…

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EGYPT CABINET APPROVED LEGALISING UNLICENSED BUILDINGS

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EGYPT CABINET APPROVED LEGALISING UNLICENSED BUILDINGS

The Cabinet approved Wednesday legalizing 238 unlicensed churches and affiliated buildings turning the total to 2,401. The status and requests of that batch have been examined, since January 6, by the committee in charge of legalizing unlicensed churches, which is headed by Minister of Justice Omar Marwan. The government made submitting reconciliation requests to legalize unlicensed constructions, mainly flat-buildings, mandatory in 2020 or demolition would be the fate of such units. Unlicensed units were given…

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DPWI CALLS ON STAKEHOLDERS FOR INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN SA

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DPWI CALLS ON STAKEHOLDERS FOR INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN SA

The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) is working with stakeholders to urgently repair damaged buildings and provide support to install bridges in communities in need, following recent flooding in KwaZulu-Natal. DPWI Minister, Patricia de Lille, and Deputy Minister Noxolo Kiviet made the statement on Tuesday and inspected damages caused by the floods. De Lille said that around 50 state-owned buildings under the custodianship of the department have been damaged by the inclement weather….

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TWO CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS INAUGURATED IN GHANA

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TWO CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS INAUGURATED IN GHANA

The Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, assisted by the Municipal Chief Executive of Ablekuma West Municipal Assembly, George Cyril Bray, on Tuesday inaugurated two newly constructed classroom blocks at Dansoman in Accra. The projects funded by the assembly were a two-storey nine-unit classroom block with a 10-seater water closet at Saint Margaret Mary Senior High School, and a seven-unit classroom block with facilities such as offices, store, and staff common room at…

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HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT CREATE TECH TO BOOST CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN ETHIOPIA

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HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT CREATE TECH TO BOOST CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN ETHIOPIA

A new era is fast approaching and technologies are leading the way. So with the constant innovation, it is no wonder people are coming up with new ideas. Now the latest development is a 12th-grade student named Betselot Bekele that has created a platform that could accelerate connectivity within the construction industry. She created a bot on Telegram, called “Meet-Up,” with the aim of connecting (on-site) contractors and interested customers. Betselot remarked that she created the…

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RWANDA AFFORDABLE HOUSING; ARE THEY VIABLE??

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RWANDA AFFORDABLE HOUSING; ARE THEY VIABLE??

According to a recent study, Kigali City alone needs 310,000 new housing units by 2032, or around 20,700 units every year. So there is a need for integrated and tailored packages to pave the way for the success of affordable housing projects in the country, real estate developers have suggested. However, less than 1,000 housing units are supplied every year. Yves Sangwa, the CEO of Rwanda Green Building Organization told Doing Business that affordable housing projects could be…

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EGYPT TO IMPLEMENT PPP PROJECTS FOR VARIOUS DEVELOPMENT

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EGYPT TO IMPLEMENT PPP PROJECTS FOR VARIOUS DEVELOPMENT

Egypt is proceeding with the implementation of public private partnership (P.P.P) projects in various development fields, as it is the locomotive of job-rich economic growth and a fundamental pillar for achieving sustainable development, according to Minister of Finance, Mohamed Maait He pointed out that the second phase of the national project to establish and operate 1,000 distinguished language schools under the P.P.P system, witnessed an increasing demand from Egyptian and Arab investors, as many companies…

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ZIMBABAWE’s HARARE-BINDURA HIGHWAY RECONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN SOON

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ZIMBABAWE’s HARARE-BINDURA HIGHWAY RECONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN SOON

The Harare-Bindura highway is set for reconstruction beginning Wednesday under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme Phase 2, contractor Bitumen World has said. According to the contractor, they are expected to take six months to bring the road up to the required standard. This is because of the dislocation of traffic, while the reconstruction is in progress, the company has asked that drivers on this road should reduce speed when approaching construction zones and comply with…

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NRC SAY ABUJA-KADUNA RAIL TRACKS TO BE REPAIRED AFTER BANDIT ATTACK

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NRC SAY ABUJA-KADUNA RAIL TRACKS TO BE REPAIRED AFTER BANDIT ATTACK

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has announced the plans for the repair work of the sections of the Abuja-Kaduna rail track that were destroyed by bandits on March 28. According to Deputy Director of NRC, Public Relations, Yakub Mahmood, “Work is ongoing on the Abuja-Kaduna rail tracks. The railway engineers are repairing the destroyed sections,” He also said that”I can’t say when the work will be completed.” On March 28, terrorists blew up sections of the…

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SA’s ESKOM ANNOUNCED LOAD SHEDDING BREAKDOWN

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SA’s ESKOM ANNOUNCED LOAD SHEDDING BREAKDOWN

Further breakdowns at generation units at Eskom’s power stations have led to the power utility having to implement stage two load shedding from yesterday until the early hours of Friday morning. Eskom said the cluster of breakdowns and delays have rendered it with no choice but to implement power downtimes. “The extension of load shedding is caused by the failure of additional units and the continued shortage of generation capacity due to delays in returning…

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PRESIDENT KENYATTA COMMISSIONED NEWLY CONSTRUCTED ULINZI STAR COMPLEX

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PRESIDENT KENYATTA COMMISSIONED NEWLY CONSTRUCTED ULINZI STAR COMPLEX

President Uhuru Kenyatta has officially commissioned the newly constructed Ulinzi Stars Complex at the Lang’ata Barracks and says the multi-sports facility should be used as a benchmark for more sporting facilities in the country. The Complex which will host among others a 10,000-seater football stadium with a running track, an aquatic center with an Olympic size swimming pool, an indoor court, and a tennis court has been constructed in 16 months. “I am proud of…

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GHANA TO BEGIN ROAD SAFETY ENHANCEMENT TO REDUCE ROAD CRASHES

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GHANA TO BEGIN ROAD SAFETY ENHANCEMENT TO REDUCE ROAD CRASHES

The road safety enhancement works to be undertaken on the London market street at Jamestown a suburb of Accra as part of efforts to reduce road crashes and their related fatalities have commenced. The enhancement works are being undertaken by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) in collaboration with the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) with support from the World Resources Institute (WRI) through its Tactical Urbanism Programme and are expected to be…

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MOZAMBIQUE’s EDM AWARD CONSTRUCTION OF INTERCONNECTION POWERLINE

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MOZAMBIQUE’s EDM AWARD CONSTRUCTION OF INTERCONNECTION POWERLINE

Mozambique’s publicly-owned electricity company, Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), has awarded the construction of the interconnection power line with neighboring Malawi to “Lasern & Toubro” (L&T), India’s infrastructure development company, which will execute the part of the work that falls within Mozambican territory. The work, which will start from the Matambo electricity substation in the central province of Tete, will consist of the construction of a 142 kilometer 400 Kilovolt transmission line, up to Zobue on…

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ZIMBABWE INFRASTRUCTURAL MINISTER SAYS ROAD REHABILITATION PROJECT CAN LAST FOR 20YEARS

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ZIMBABWE INFRASTRUCTURAL MINISTER SAYS ROAD REHABILITATION PROJECT CAN LAST FOR 20YEARS

Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister, Felix Mhona said that the quality of work by construction companies involved in the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP) is satisfactory and the roads can last up to 20 years before requiring extensive rehabilitation. Minister Mhona said this as he toured works on roads such as Delport, Seke, Harare Drive, and St Patrick in Harare which is being rehabilitated. The Government took over the rehabilitation and reconstruction of roads in…

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WHY RENOVATION OF LIBERIA’s ZWEDRU CENTRAL MARKET IS DELAYING

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WHY RENOVATION OF LIBERIA’s ZWEDRU CENTRAL MARKET IS DELAYING

Grand Gedeh County Assistant Superintendent for Development says the renovation of the Zwedru Central Market is delayed due to squatters who have encroached on the market. Madam Betty Breeze Doh at her Administration building office said, that Welt Hunger Hilfer with funding from the German Government started the renovation of the Zwedru Central market in December of 2020, but is yet to be completed. She named one of the factors responsible for the delay of…

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RWANDA’s U.S.$255Million VOLCANOES’s PARK EXPANSION PROJECT

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RWANDA’s U.S.$255Million VOLCANOES’s PARK EXPANSION PROJECT

Rwanda has embarked on a project to expand the Volcanoes National Park which is expected to cost US$255 million (approx. 260bn), with a goal to ensure a better habitat for the majestic mountain gorillas, according to the Rwanda Development Board (RDB). Once implemented, the project will see the park expanded by 25%. The agency says this conservation venture will not only benefit the iconic species but also improve the lives of the communities living around…

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CONSTRUCTION OF NEW LUANDA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT 90%

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CONSTRUCTION OF NEW LUANDA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT 90%

The President of the Republic, João Lourenço on saturday checked the level of execution of the construction work of the new Luanda International Airport (NAIL), located in the commune of Bom Jesus, in the municipality of Icolo e Bengo, Luanda province. President Joao Lourenço also visited the Airport Security area, the Fire Station, the hotels area and the meteorological radar. At the end of the visit, the Minister of Transport, Ricardo de Abreu, confirmed to…

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