March 15
South Africa: Gauteng Hospitals Haemorrhage Millions in Negligence Claims - South African News Briefs - March 15, 2024
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November 20, 2023
South Africa: Fixing School Infrastructure Vital to Stop Learning Crisis - Equal Education Report
November 29 marks the 10th anniversary of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga signing the Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure into law. And despite this… Read more »
September 29, 2023
South Africa: Durban to Spend R28 Million to Demolish 'Disastrous' Building - South African News Briefs - September 29, 2023
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March 10, 2023
South Africa: Growing Concern Over 'Construction Mafia' in Cape Town - South African News Briefs - March 10, 2023
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February 02, 2023
Africa: Taking a Toll - Lessons from Nairobi's Expressway
A trip to Kenya's capital Nairobi is often associated with unproductive time spent in the city's tortuous traffic. It is to be expected in a city with over 5 million inhabitants,… Read more »
November 09, 2022
South Africa: Govt Makes Contingency Plans Against Public Service Strike - South African News Briefs - November 9, 2022
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August 30, 2022
South Africa: Ramaphosa Faces Grilling at Parliament - South African News Briefs - August 30, 2022
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March 16, 2022
Africa: Burkina Faso Architect Francis Kere Becomes First African to Win Pritzker Prize
Burkina Faso-born architect Diebedo Francis Kere has become the first African to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious honour, in its more than 40-year history. Read more »
December 11, 2021
South Sudan: U.S. Treasury Issues Sanctions on South Sudan Construction Company
Excerpts from a press release issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury: Read more »
November 23, 2021
Nigeria: A Public Health Approach to Ending Building Collapses in Nigeria
Since 2007, 145 buildings have collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous state and so-called centre of excellence. Recently, a nother building under construction in… Read more »
November 23, 2018
Africa: 'Voluntary Colonialism'? No Thanks.
As if the scramble for Africa wasn't bad enough, Germany's personal representative of Angela Merkel for Africa, Günther Nooke, says Europe deserves a second chance to screw… Read more »
July 13, 2017
Africa: Expanded Engagement for Caterpillar - Boosting Sales & Alleviating Poverty
A strong signal of growing business engagement with Africa by large U.S. corporations was the announcement last September by Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman of plans to invest over… Read more »
March 02, 2017
South Africa: Johannesburg Hospital Roof Collapses
The roof at the entrance of Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg collapsed, according to several media reports. Read more »
October 17, 2016
Africa: Bechtel Offering 'Fast Track' Solutions for Large-Scale Projects Across the Continent
As an indication of rising interest in Africa by the U.S. engineering and construction giant Bechtel, the company's president for Africa is relocating from London to Nairobi.… Read more »
June 21, 2013
Gabon: Building Infrastructure Makes 'Meaningful Impact' - Bechtel
When President Obama travels to Africa next week - visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa - infrastructure and power will be a major focus of his trip. One company, U.S.-based… Read more »
April 21, 2010
East Africa: New Internet Cable Links Region to World
The second major fibre-optic cable linking Africa's east coast to the world was completed Tuesday, the largest shareholder in the project has announced. Read more »
February 09, 2009
Liberia: 'Normal Days' Slowly Return
"Normal days" is the expression used by many Liberians to refer to the time before the civil war, when institutions functioned fairly well and the country's infrastructure was… Read more »
November 16, 2007
Liberia: Major Road Building Begins in Capital
Construction and repair work on some of Monrovia's main thoroughfares officially began Friday, marking the launch of the first phase of an emergency road repair project… Read more »
October 23, 2007
Liberia: An Entrepreneur Makes Rebuilding a Successful Business
Five years ago, Justin Zigbuo left a comfortable life in the United States to return to his native Liberia to start a business making building blocks out of pressed and cured earth… Read more »
October 18, 2007
Liberia: Profile - Patrick Duwha, a Bricklayer
The war years sent hundreds of thousands of Liberians fleeing back and forth across the country and in an out across several national borders. Sometimes refugees found work and… Read more »