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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

Architect Talks Design as an Engine for Healing and Change

It’s a question that has animated MASS Design Group’s celebrated architecture projects around the world, including a hospital in Rwanda built by local hands from local stone and a school in the Congo designed to also protect endangered wildlife. And it’s a question co-founder and CEO Michael Murphy answers in a TED Talk about MASS’s work released online this week. “Buildings are not simply expressive.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 21st September 2016

Ethiopia to Raise $58 Million for the Construction of the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam

Ethiopian authorities have announced plans to raise 1.8 billion Birr (about $58 million) for the construction of the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD). The Office of the National Council for the Coordination of Public Participation for the GERD’s construction said the government plans to raise the money this fiscal year, the Ethiopian Herald reported. Funds for the 6,000 MW dam, which would be the biggest.... Read more »

Posted on : Tuesday , 20th September 2016

Lobby group wants more consultations over new SGR route

Conservationists are up in arms about the Nairobi-Naivasha standard gauge railway (SGR) route that will cut through the Nairobi National Park, and are calling for the postponement of its launch to allow for more consultations. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to launch this new phase, whose construction will begin at the Nairobi National Park, on September 26. Conservationist lobby Friends of Nairobi.... Read more »

Posted on : Tuesday , 20th September 2016

Ethiopia: Ministry to Finalize Construction of 11 New Universities

The new 11 universities, whose construction was launched in five states in the past, will be finalized at the end of this Ethiopian budget year, said the Ministry of Education (MoE). Project Office Head at the Ministry, Samuel Kifle, said efforts will be made to complete the construction of all universities until June. The universities will begin enroling students in 2010 E.C. Works were underway to furnish the.... Read more »

Posted on : Saturday , 17th September 2016

Tanzania: PM Directs Local Governments to Hasten Road, Street Naming

Dodoma — The Prime Minister, Mr Kassim Majaliwa, has directed local authorities in the country to fast-track naming of roads and streets in their respective areas as part of implementation of the national homes' address and post code system. Mr Majaliwa as well instructed that responsible government institutions should give a priority to Dodoma Municipal Council and Chamwino District Council in Dodoma Region in the execution.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 16th September 2016