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  • Cabo Verde’s (Cape Verde’s) flagship airline Transportes Aéreos de Cabo Verde (TACV)

    CAPE VERDE, 2014/05/14 Cabo Verde Handling, the company that will provide ground services for aircraft, passengers, luggage, cargo and mail, has by presently been set up but will remain under the umbrella of Cabo Verde’s (Cape Verde’s) flagship airline Transportes Aéreos de Cabo Verde (TACV) until a buyer is found, Cape Verdean weekly newspaper A Semana reported. The company has starting capital of 188 million escudos, according to its articles of association, which is the price of the assets and equipment it presently owns to provide ground services.

  • A regional conference on aviation security in Africa opened on Wednesday in Dakar,

    DAKAR CITY, 2014/04/13 A regional conference on aviation security in Africa opened on Wednesday in Dakar, Senegal, to address challenges and improve the safety of air transport in Africa. The conference is organized by Airports Council International-Africa Region (ACI-Africa) in collaboration with the Agence des Aéroports du Sénégal (ADS) and the Senegalese government. Chaired by the Senegalese Minister of Air Transport and Tourism, Oumar Gueye, the conference is on the theme, 'Safety intelligence against threats”.

  • The recurring insecurity at Tripoli international airport in Libya

    ITALY, 2014/03/31 The recurring insecurity at Tripoli international airport in Libya has forced Italian airline, Alitalia, to suspend, until the end of March, its flights to and from Libya, the director of the Libyan Civil Aviation, Nasser Eddine Chaib al-Ain, announced here Thursday. Rockets hit the major runway of the airport, resulting in the suspension of all flights for additional than six hours. Following this incident, Libyan civil aviation authorities diverted all flights to the military airport in Tripoli and the civilian airport of Misrata.

  • South Africa’s rail firm Transnet has awarded a US$5-billion arrangement

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2014/03/18

  • Malawi airport closed because of potholes

    MALAWI, 2014/03/18 Chileka International Airport in Malawi's commercial capital, Blantyre, has been closed indefinitely because its major runway is littered with potholes, the Department of Civil Aviation has announced. 'We have alerted all airlines that there will be restricted landing at the airport because of major repair works on the major runway,' Transport Minister Ulemu Chilapondwa said on sunday. Chilapondwa said two potholes developed on the major runway and the Department of Civil Aviation hired a contractor to fill them. 'But what we discovered is that because of the consistent heavy rains there is major damage underneath so much that once one pothole is filled an extra develops instantly,' he said.

  • The Angolan government is working on building rail links with the Democratic Republic of Congo

    ANGOLA, 2014/03/16 The Angolan government is working on building rail links with the Democratic Republic of Congo so that it can re-establish links with East African nations, the Minister for Transport, Augusto da Silva Tomás said Thursday in Lobito. During a visit by Zambia’s Transport Minister, Yafunkwa Mucanga, Silva Tomás as well said that the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia were discussing where the rail links would be made, drawing up technical studies, inclunding training teams to later begin building work.

  • Kenya Airways confirms continued increase under 'Plan Mawingo'

    KENYA, 2014/03/06 It is a month to go until Kenya Airways will be able to welcome their initial B787-8 Dreamliner in Nairobi, marking the next phase of roll out of the airline’s strategic ‘Plan Mawingo’, which outlines increase and expansion over the next 8 years. Launched in 2012 as a 10 year outlook towards where the airline wants to be in 2022, a lot of of the projections rest on an increased presence in the markets in the Far East and the expansion based on two key premises, the delivery of national of the art jets for both long and short / medium haul and the timely delivery of ‘Project Greenfield’ by the Kenya Airport Authority which foresees the construction of a second runway at JKIA and of a new mega terminal, expanding capacity fivefold from the present 7+ million passengers.

  • Malian Minister of Equipment and Transport, Gen. Abdoulaye Koumaré

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2014/02/27 The European Union ( EU) has donated to Mali's National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) an observation aircraft for the security of airport hubs throughout the country. The donation was made at a ceremony chaired by the Malian Minister of Equipment and Transport, Gen. Abdoulaye Koumaré, and held at the Sénou Bamako air base. Ambassador of the EU to Mali Richard Zink as well attended the ceremony.

  • Making travel to remote destinations more accessible in Kenya

    KENYA, 2014/02/17 February 15, it was the launch of scheduled flights from Nairobi to the border town of Lokichogio in Northern Kenya. Lokichogio was during the liberation war, the South Sudan’s People Liberation Army major springboard for relief and medevac flights into the South Sudan as it waged against the regime in Khartoum and as well a major supply route used by the SPLA and their allies to from presently on force Khartoum to the negotiating table and map out the path for full independence. At that time, Loki as the locals call it, was one of the busiest aerodromes in Kenya before, upon independence, scheduled flights from Nairobi to Juba shifted the traffic axis away from Loki.

  • The West African Development Bank (BOAD)

    DAKAR CITY, 2014/02/14 The West African Development Bank (BOAD) and the Senegalese government have signed a loan agreement worth 10 billion CFA francs for the partial financing of the project aimed at deepening the access channel and reconstructing the oil wharf in the Port of Dakar in Senegal,  sources close to the financial institution at its Lomé-based headquarters. The project, which is aimed primarily at strengthening the port's competitiveness, will allow third generation ships to access the port.
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