The African Development Bank (AfDB) has agreed to loan $696m for a rail link between Burundi and Tanzania as part of Africa’s Central Corridor. The 651km route will be split…

Beijing-based China Harbour Engineering, a subsidiary of China Communications, has signed an agreement in principle to build infrastructure in the Misurata Free Zone (MFZ) in Libya. Located on the coast…

The US and the EU have joined forces with the African Development Bank (AFDB) and the Africa Finance Corporation to launch the west’s latest attempt to counter China’s Belt and…

A report this month highlights China’s newly dominant role in Africa won through infrastructure investment.

A printer intended for use in Africa has been launched by a joint venture between Swiss cement maker Holcim and the UK government’s British International Investment (BII) agency. 14Trees says…

A subsidiary of China Railway Group has won a contract to build the headquarters of the African Court on Human and People’s Rights in Tanzania, the East African newspaper reports.…

The governments of five West African states held more talks last month about a long-discussed $15bn highway connecting Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire, taking in Benin, Togo, and Ghana along the…

The African population is expected to reach 2.4 billion people in 2050. Some 80% of that growth will occur in cities, and 70% of the buildings needed by 2040 are…

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has opened the country’s first new international airport terminal since independence in 1961. The $270m facility is three times the size of the existing…

Work has started on what will be Liberia’s only public library after a devastating period of civil war in the West African country. Designed by Canadian architect McCallumSather, the project…

The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) will help fund a 300km rail network for Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Africa’s second most populous city after…

China’s investment in its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) held steady at $68bn last year, according to a report by Shanghai’s Fudan University, but it has changed where it’s spending…

Fitch Solutions predicts that construction in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) will see a growth rate of 5% in 2023, outstripping the global rate of 2.3%, thanks to…

Belgian engineer John Cockerill has signed a strategic agreement with a Moroccan energy company to develop the North African country’s hydrogen sector. The joint venture aims to build an alkaline…

Bechtel’s social enterprise, bechtel.org, has teamed up with development agency USAID to build distribution centres in Zambia to prevent the wastage of maize, a staple food crop. Zambia is among…

The World Bank has approved a $311m finance package to support renewable energy generation in Togo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Chad. The bank said the loans will be spent on…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) will lend Uganda $301m to upgrade the Kampala–Malaba Metre Gauge Railway (MGR) to link the landlocked country to Kenya and its port of Mombasa. AfDB…

Work started yesterday on a new headquarters for the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, funded by a Chinese grant. Ecowas president Omar…