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  • Six Feeder Roads Earmarked in Nimba 2012-10-16

    LIBERIA, 2012/10/16 Public Works Minister Samuel Kofi Woods, II, has underscored the need for community dwellers in areas where feeder road's rehabilitations are taking place to fully support and contribute local construction materials to construction companies so as to ensure the unhindered and unimpeded implementation of the projects.

  • Senegal: Boosting air transport 2012-10-14

    SENEGAL, 2012/10/14 Work is underway on several projects meant to strengthen Senegal’s air transport sector, including an ongoing initiative to refurbish provincial airport infrastructure and an effort to launch operations at the perishable goods freight terminal of the Dakar airport, which should open up new opportunities in agriculture and foreign trade. Nevertheless, the delivery of the sector’s largest infrastructure project, the new Blaise Diagne International Airport (Aéroport International Blaise Diagne, AIBD), has been pushed back to the end of 2013.

  • The CTA Civil Construction Working Group Met the National Roads Administration 2012-10-11

    MOZAMBIQUE, 2012/10/11 On September 26, the CTA working group of Civil Construction met with the Director of the road maintenance of ANE. The purpose of the conference was to discuss mechanisms for the development of local entrepreneurs. The CTA working group of Civil Construction has stressed the importance of road maintenance long-term contracts for the development of local businesses.

  • Western Cluster Sign Port Lease Agreement2012-10-06

    LIBERIA, 2012/10/06 Following nine months of negotiations, Western Cluster Limited (WCL) on Monday, October 1, 2012 signed a Port Lease and Operating Agreement with the management of the National Port Authority (NPA) for the rehabilitation and construction of infrastructures at the Freeport of Monrovia for the export of iron ore.

  • Fibre Helps E-Government Connect Rural Ghana 2012-10-04

    GHANA, 2012/10/04 The goal is to develop local IT services and boost transparency inclunding efficiency of government operations outside the capital, Accra.  According to a press statement from Alcatel, the company is to develop and place a 600 kilometer fiber optic network to deliver high speed data connections between the central government and rural areas.

  • Morocco, Mauritania sign transport deal 2012-09-08

    MAURITANIA, 2012/09/08 Mauritania and Morocco last week signed an agreement, which allows their national air companies to perform weekly flights between the two capitals. The accord was the result of a three-day visit by Moroccan Transportation Minister Abdelaziz Rebbah to Nouakchott, which ended on Friday (August 31st). The document "represents a fair share" between Mauritania Airways and Royal Air Maroc, according to the final communique. The majority of connections have until now been offered by the Moroccan company.

  • Li Jinzao participated the tripartite conference on TAZARA

    ZAMBIA, 2012/05/06  The visiting Vice Minister of Commerce of China Hon. Li Jinzao participated the tripartite conference on TAZARA held in Lusaka where he discussed with the Zambian Minister of Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Hon. Yamfwa Mukanga and the Tanzanian Minister of Transport Hon. Omari Nundu on issues related to the Tanzania-Zambia Railway.

  • Aéroport international de Dakar (AIBD)

    SENEGAL, 2011/11/04 The construction of a new airport, 45 km east of Dakar, with a modern futuristic architecture. The Blaise-Diagne International Airport (AIBD), has a huge superficies of 2600 hectares, a vast, compared to 800 ha International Airport Leopold-Sedar-Senghor (AILSS), the historic infrastructure of the country, whose activity must cease once the AIBD completed.

  • Dakar port senegal

    DAKAR CITY, 2011/07/07   Dakar Port Senegal
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