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Ethiopia Set to Gain Transport Lifeline to Sea with New $4 Billion Railway

Construction of a Chinese-funded electric railway, linking Ethiopia’s capital along its main trading route to neighboring Djibouti, has been completed, providing the African nation with much-needed improved rail access to a seaport. The $4 billion project, implemented by China Railway Engineering Corp. and China Civil Engineering Construction Corp. will be commissioned next month. The government is pinning its hopes.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

Kenya: Kiambu Uses Technology to Build Cheaper Access Roads

Kiambu — In efforts to provide durable roads across the county, Kiambu government has over the recent months been searching and developing innovative methods of road design, construction and maintenance in order to maximise the utilisation of the available funds. One such methods is the use of the soil enhancing stabilisers, a technology globally known as Soil Enhancing Solutions that capitalises on enzymes to modify roads,.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

New Road Infrastructure set to Boost Trade Kenya-Uganda Trade

Trade between Uganda and Kenya is projected to increase as the construction of a new and shorter route from Mbale to the Lwakaka border post in eastern Uganda kicks off. The state minister for trade, Michael Kafabusa Werikhe, said when this road is complete, the quantity of exports and imports through Kenya is set to increase. Warikhe was speaking at a contract-signing ceremony between Uganda National Roads Authority and.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

Kenya: New Code Clears Way for Use of Local Materials to Cut Cost of Construction

Kenyans will in the next five years be allowed to build homes and office blocks using affordable local raw materials, bringing down the cost of construction. This follows a policy shift, which will see the country drop stringent guidelines that have long restricted developers to expensive brick and mortar. The country is moving always from the British Standards and Codes of Practice used for structural engineering.... Read more »

Posted on : Saturday , 1st October 2016

East Africa: New Road to Boost Trade With Kenya

Trade between Uganda and Kenya is projected to increase as the construction of a new and shorter route from Mbale to the Lwakaka border post in eastern Uganda kicks off. The state minister for trade, Michael Kafabusa Werikhe, said when this road is complete, the quantity of exports and imports through Kenya is set to increase. Warikhe was speaking at a contract-signing ceremony between Uganda National Roads Authority and.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 29th September 2016

AfDB seeks investors for Tanzania�s railway line

Nairobi - The African Development Bank will hold an investors’ roadshow to attract as much as $7.6 billion in financing for a railway line linking Tanzania’s port in Dar es Salaam with neighbouring landlocked countries. The Abidjan, Ivory Coast-based lender is teaming up with the World Economic Forum to help attract investors to bankroll the 2 200km line, according to Gabriel Negatu, AfDB’s regional director for.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 29th September 2016

Kenya seeks to expand key highway to boost trade, ease traffic

The Kenyan government said on Sunday that it plans to expand the Nairobi-Mombasa highway from the current single lane to six lane modern highway and bids are likely to be invited soon, an official said on Sunday. State House spokesman Manoah Esipisu told a news conference in Nairobi that already a U.S. investor has expressed its interest in the Nairobi-Mombasa Expressway which is expected to ease traffic jams in.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 26th September 2016

Tanzania: Local Contractors to Vie for Standard Gauge Railway Project Tender

The government is set to advertise a tender for construction of the Standard Gauge Railway earlier in December, this year, the Minister for Works, Transport and Communications, Professor Makame Mbarawa, has said. Prof Mbarawa made the revelation in Dar es Salaam yesterday while calling on local construction firms to form joint ventures to win the tender, adding that 1 trillion/- have been set aside for the tender. The.... Read more »

Posted on : Saturday , 24th September 2016

China's development fund, Kenyan gov't sign deal on housing project

The China-Africa Development Fund (CADFund) on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Kenyan government to develop 20,000 housing units for civil servants. Speaking at the launch of a new CADFund office in Nairobi, Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Housing James Macharia said Chinese investments have stimulated economic growth in the east African nation. "Kenya has.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 23rd September 2016

State invites bids for expansion of Nairobi-Mombasa highway

Planned expansion of the Nairobi-Mombasa road into a six-lane super-highway is expected to begin in the next couple of months with the invitation of bids for the project. Transport and Infrastructure secretary James Macharia said the government planned to build the road through a Public Private Partnership (PPP), but fell short of indicating whether it will be Kenya’s first pay -for- use highway as has been.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 22nd September 2016

Ethiopia: Over 1.3 Billion Birr Raised for GERD Construction

The Office plans to raise 1.8 billion Birr this fiscal year. The Office of National Council for the Coordination of Public Participation for the Construction of GERD said 1.3 billion Birr has been secured from various income generating schemes for the construction of the Grand Dam last fiscal year. Office Deputy Director-General Fikirte Tamir said the stated sum was obtained from bond sales and donation, lottery, 8100.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 22nd September 2016

Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan sign final contracts on Nile dam studies

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have signed the final contracts for the long-awaited technical studies on the impact on downstream countries of a giant dam that Addis Ababa is building, Egypt’s state news agency MENA reported. The signing that took place in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Monday was made between French consultancy firms BRL and Artelia, as well as British law firm Corbett, which will carry out studies on the potential.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 21st September 2016