A plan to convert two of Uganda’s aerodromes into airports is expected to help ease traffic at Uganda’s one and only major airport, Entebbe international airport. Uganda’s Entebbe international airport is the county’s only major airport and has...
Auto maker Toyota is setting up a Sh1.28 billion logistics hub in Nairobi that will be used by 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa to source vehicles directly from Japan. Through its trading and investment arm Toyota Tsusho Corporation, the firm on...
Durban is preparing to shift thousands of people, small companies and some big industries from the southern and central section of the city in the most ambitious re-engineering project of Africa’s largest port in several decades. If city...
The speed at which the Angolan railroad system has been rebuilt is a first for the African continent, said Angola’s transport minister, Augusto Tomás in the city of Lubango, cited by Angolan news agency Angop. Noting that in just a few years 2,700...
On 30th June-1st July and 4th to 6th July, I travelled by road on the Trans Kalahari Corridor, from Johannesburg to Walvis Bay, to attend the UNCECA workshop. Some points noted along the route: Widening of the road is taking place in the hills near...
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, Inc. $25 000 to develop a stewardship programme and conduct a large scale outreach campaign targeting communities with major populations that use the basin for commercial...
Seattle — Bill Gates today announced the winners of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge—an effort to develop “next-generation” toilets that will deliver safe and sustainable sanitation to the 2.5 billion people worldwide who don’t...
Water is indeed a necessity that sustains life and is universally used by all human beings. The lack of it poses a great risk to the survival of humans. The water crisis that has engulfed certain parts of Ghana, especially its capital, Accra, is...
More than 150 000 Kenyans, including teachers and students in six schools in three semi arid districts will benefit from a Sh71.3 million rain water harvesting grant from the African Development Bank. The grant, which has already been approved...
More than a million children die from diarrhoea-related illnesses in Africa every year and it’s public health issues like this that will be exercising the minds of delegates at a conference on sanitation to be held in Durban in December. The 12th...
