The demolition of properties built on road by-passes has started once again. Roads minister Kipkalya Kones has said that the exercise will continue and will only end when all structures that are on the land earmarked for the by-passes are brought down.

AREAS that were cleared by Community Development Committees in the Oshikoto Region for the construction of roads have again been encroached by bush, Swapo MP in the National Council Henock Kankoshi told the House yesterday.

A newly-built police station in Bansang, Central River Region (CRR), was on Thursday inaugurated by President Jammeh, as part of the itinerary of the Dialogue with the People Tour.

CONSTRUCTION and building material supplier Afrimat's earnings for the year to February rose 79%, lifted by acquisitions and as government's continued investment in infrastructure kept the demand for materials buoyant.

COMPANIES that do shoddy road works should be blacklisted so that they are not awarded any future deals, a top official has proposed. "We have asked the Government to identify companies that construct substandard roads so that they can be blacklisted in order not to win any more tenders," said Edgar Agaba, the executive director of the Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Authority ...

THE works ministry is to asses the state of 24 bridges across the country. The exercise, expected to begin in June, would pave way for repairing the structures which are old.

THE construction of a US$ 120 million state of the art glass manufacturing plant in the city of Kadoma is being hampered by a critical shortage of water and the current power cuts.

The Government yesterday reaffirmed its promise that come 2010, motorists will be able to drive saloon cars from Mtwara to Sirari in Mara Region with ease.

Dr Uphie Chinje Melo, Director of MIPROMALO, explains how the use of local building materials can be popularised in Cameroon.

A few days ago, the board of directors of CIMENCAM, the cement production outfit, came up with some very innovative ideas to appease the Yaounde clientele which was getting quite itchy with the scarcity of cement growing with each passing day.

Agrostone production, initially introduced by the Housing Development Agency of the Addis Ababa City Administration under the then Mayor, Arkebe Oqubay, has expanded to the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR).

A cement factory that is expected to be constructed by a Nigerian conglomerate, Dangote Group may reduce cement scarcity in Tanzania and in the East African region.

Government urbanization projects in the country are hit by a severe scarcity of the much-needed cement and other construction materials, the Ministry of Works and Urban Development said on Wednesday.

The controversy surrounding plans to construct a Sh536 million cement factory in Athi River has deepened, with environment regulators saying the firm should seek an alternative site. The company owners, however, insist the project is still on.

A micro-dam is under construction at a cost of over 8 million Nakfa through the coordinated efforts of the inhabitants of Embeito and Azaiha, Southern region.

Experts must be exhausted of saying "we told you so" to the government. The latest accident in-waiting is the deplorable state of the only bridge linking the east of the country to the rest of it at the Owen Falls Dam in Jinja.

The building, construction and real estate industry in the country lags behind in attracting finances from the banking sector.

Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has commissioned a new control tower with a modern air traffic control system at Lokichogio Airport at a cost of Sh114 million.

THE World Council of Civil Engineers (WCCE) has warned industry players in the construction industry to shun corruption, which has emerged as one of the biggest obstacles to the country's economic turnaround.

Luanda will get this month five new health centres under a rehabilitation programme of the local government to spread the sanitary network to the surroundings of the capital city, meant to improve medical assistance, ANGOP has learnt.

A HARARE woman is seeking a peace order against a construction company which failed to build her a house forcing her to finish building on her own.

Li Chanqxin, representative of the Chinese Machinery Equipment Export and Import Company, CMEC, Wednesday, May 7, after signing the Sports infrastructural Development Convention with the Cameroon Government, told the press that Cameroon could host the World Cup after the execution of the FCFA 272 billion contract.

It is not a secret that Cameroonians like drinking. After work and weekends, the different bars in towns and beer parlours are full to capacity. During one of the drinking evenings, a friend of a notorious drinking team who is an inspector general in one of the ministries kept boosting to his friends that all the materials from his new house will be imported.

Uphie Chinje Melo, Director of Local Material Promotion Authority (MIPROMALO), explains.

Jean Baptiste Koue, Electro-mechanical Engineer and actor in the local material sector.