(Reuters) – Kenya’s main port of Mombasa, East Africa’s chief trade gateway, expects more business after an offensive that has driven rebels out of Somalia’s Kismayu port and is therefore likely to reduce offshore piracy...
An estimated R250 billion will be invested on upgrading the Port of Durban, as part of Transnet’s new Market Demand Strategy (MDS). The MDS will see the state-owned company pump R300 billion into infrastructure spend across South Africa in an...
Recently, the City of Cape Town partnered with University of Cape Town engineering students to find “creative ways to complete” the highways. “What we’re asking them to do is to assess whether [we should] complete them,...
The upcoming East African Community’s Heads of States Summit will place great emphasis on railway, energy and inland water ways transport in the region in a bid to ease trade between the member states. Dr. Sezibera revealed this when speaking to...
In an attempt to revamp its transport sector, Tanzania is looking for financial and logistical support from Germany to speed up development of transportation industry. Tanzanian minister for Transport Harrison Mwakyembe visited Germany this week...
Air pollution is a growing problem in Africa, driven by lack of regulations and poverty amongst others. Beatrice Philemon from IPP Mediareports that in Africa, urban outdoor air pollution is responsible for an estimated 63 000 premature deaths each...
An Egyptian official has emphatically denied the veracity of allegations that his country had reached an agreement with neighboring Sudan to use its territories as a launchpad for potential attacks on Ethiopian damming facilities over the dispute...
Climate change is bringing many uncertainties, especially to the world of water. No continent will be harder hit by climate change than Africa. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has stated that African river basins will be especially...
Approximately 5 000 metres of precast concrete storm water pipes will be used to drain Waterfall City, which have been specified by the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA). Regarded as one of Gauteng’s largest infrastructural projects to date,...
