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  • sustainable Housing for Rural Families in Africa

    AFRICA, 2016/05/22 Until recently, the major thrust of AVN's work has been in Burkina Faso, and over the border in neighbouring regions of southern Mali. But three years ago, we started getting requests from several organisations for sending trained VN master masons from Burkina Faso to work on projects in Senegal. Of these requests, the majority significant has been in the region of Matam in north-eastern Senegal: the construction of a technical training centre and annexes (La maison des énergies) in Thiangol, close to the Senegal river, launched in January 2009, with financial sponsorship from the Communauté de Communes Val de Drôme (CCVD), France.

  • Brazil’s Andrade Gutierrez starts construction of dam in Mozambique

    BRAZIL, 2016/03/26 The construction of the Moamba Major dam, a project costing US$500 million that will supply electricity and water to Mozambique’s Maputo province, should start in May, the director of the project said Monday. Elias Paulo, cited by pan-African news agency APA, said the hydroelectric plant would take three years to build, and that the contractor was a consortium led by Brazilian group Andrade Gutierrez.

  • Djibouti seals pipeline deal with Ethiopia

    DJIBOUTI CITY, 2016/01/16 A $1.55bn pipeline transaction signed in late September is set to boost the volumes of petrol, diesel and jet fuel that Djibouti is able to transport to landlocked Ethiopia. Additional infrastructure, to be rolled out alongside the pipeline initiative, will as well strengthen Djibouti’s efforts to reinforce its position as a strategic gateway to East Africa.

  • Financing the Nyagatare-Rukomo Road Project , Kuwait Fund For Arab Economic Development

    KUWAIT, 2015/12/15 A Loan Agreement was signed today in Kigali between the Republic of Rwanda and Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development whereby the Fund will extend a loan of Kuwaiti Dinars Four Million and Five Hundred Thousand Kuwaiti Dinars (K.D. 4,500,000/-), approximately 15.3 million US Dollars, to help finance the Nyagatare-Rukomo Road Project. The Loan Agreement was signed on behalf of the Republic of Rwanda by H.E. Mr. Claver Gatete - Minister of Finance and Economic Planning and on behalf of the Fund by Mr. Hesham Al-Waqayan, Deputy Director-General of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development in attendance of Mr. Abdul-Rahman Al-Hashim, Regional Manager for Central, East and South African nations. The aim of the Project is to enhance the economic and social development of the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Rwanda, and at the same time to participate in linking Rwanda with the Republic of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

  • Excavation work on the Kitale Webuye road being done by Jiangxi Zhongmei Engineering Construction Co.

    KENYA, 2015/11/30 Residents of five counties in western Kenya are looking forward to the potential economic increase of the region once modernization work on a major highway is completed in the next 12 months. Kenya National Highways Authority is undertaking the modernization of the 147-kilometer road network, which traverses Kisumu, Vihiga, Kakamega, Bungoma and Trans Nzoi counties. The project is one of the national government's key development objectives, outlined in the Vision 2030 blueprint proposals. The five counties, all in the western circuit, provide most of the food that feeds the country, inclunding exporting to Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. The project involves the expansion of the existing road, construction of service and access roads, erecting interchanges and pedestrian crossings at several locations inclunding building drainage and market loops at Kiminini, Kamukuywa, Maliki, Sikhendu, Lugulu, Matunda and Chwele shopping centers along the route.

  • Rwanda: Kagame Urges Gisozi Cooperatives to Accelerate Work

    RWANDA, 2015/08/14 President Paul Kagame on Wednesday visited Gisozi cooperatives and urged their members to work together and increase their efforts. "Working together promotes development additional than people working alone," he said. Gisozi in Gasabo district is a commercial center with a large furniture market where four large cooperatives, grouping about 1000 members combined, are operational. The majority were relocated from Gakinjiro, near Muhima prison, while others were hawkers. Part the cooperatives is Duhahirane which consists of 321 former street vendors members who were able to construct a Frw 2 billion commercial complex with 321 shops.

  • Shs1.1 Trillion Loan for Airport Expansion in Uganda

    UGANDA, 2015/08/01 Parliament has okayed governments's request to borrow $325m (about Shs1.1 trillion) from China's Exim Bank for the upgrade of Entebbe Airport. Parliament yesterday approved a initial tranche of $200m to cover phase I of the project on the promise that the balance of $125m would come in 2018/19 financial year for phase II. "We must support the loan request to upgrade our airport to make us competitive in the region," Mr Fox Odoi (West Budama North), said. The chairman of the Committee on National Economy, Mr Xavier Kyooma, had reminded colleagues that Uganda being a landlocked country, air transport is critical for its economic security and prosperity.

  • Chinese company CRBC builds bridge over Nkomati River in Mozambique

    CHINA, 2015/07/22 The bridge construction works on the Nkomati River, in Maputo province, carried out by the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), should be completed by December, said the president of development company Empresa de Desenvolvimento de Maputo Sul. Paulo Fumane, president of the organisation responsible for implementation of the Maputo ring road and the Maputo/Catembe bridge and associated road system, said construction would make it possible to link the the town of Marracuene and Maçaneta by road, as these two places are currently connected only by barge.

  • Westgate Mall Re-Opens 2 Years After Terror Siege in Kenya

    KENYA, 2015/07/16 The bullet holes are plastered over, the shattered glass restored. Two years next terror struck at Westgate in Nairobi, the upscale shopping mall is set to reopen amid a lot of unanswered questions over what happened during the four-day siege. Once a symbol of Kenya's aspirational middle-class, Westgate has come to represent President Uhuru Kenyatta's failure to combat a growing Islamist terror threat on its own soil. As city officials toured the site of one of Kenya's worst terror attacks, where Somalia's al-Shabaab slaughtered at least 67 people as they dined and shopped, it was easy to forget the grisly events that happened here.

  • Mozambique paves 21,000 kilometres of roads in 2014

    MOZAMBIQUE, 2015/06/30 Twenty-one thousand kilometres of roads of a total planned 22,000 kilometres of roads were paved in Mozambique in 2014, representing an implementation rate of 96 %, said the Mozambican minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources. Carlos Bonete Martinho, who was speaking in Maputo during the National Conference of the Joint Review of the road sector, said the newly paved roads accounted for about 74 % of the Mozambican road network, which totals around 30,000 kilometres. The minister, who was cited by Mozambican news agency AIM, as well said that the asphalting work represented a financial commitment of 21 billion meticais (US$548 million), of which half was paid by partners supporting Mozambique.
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