Breaking ground A proposed US$18.5 billion smart city development in the Nigerian capital of Abuja has the potential to provide accommodation for around 140 000 people and employ as many as 250… Read more
Homeward bound Tanzania – where the housing backlog is estimated at around 3 million units, despite growing by about 200 000 units a year – is attempting to resolve the crisis by… Read more
Go with the flow Plans are afoot for a water purification start-up in South Africa’s Limpopo province that could expand business across the continent. Two years ago, the founder of Kusini Water, Murendeni Mafumo,… Read more
Docking station Transnet, South African state-owned custodian of ports, rails and pipelines, will spend US$464 million on deepening and lengthening berths at Durban’s container terminal, to enable it to host bigger vessels…. Read more
Expanding potential Ethiopia has raised massive loans to build four light-manufacturing industrial parks by year-end. The projects, to be built by Chinese construction companies, are named Jimma, Adama, Dire Dawa and Arerti…. Read more
