Bridge-building is booming in Africa. Key projects are being unveiled or are under construction to give the region vibrant, efficient and economic transport corridors and boost the incomplete integration of their associated economies.
Botswana and Zambia are hoping to commence construction of the delayed $259-million Kazungula Bridge over the Zambezi River, a critical strategy to improve Africa’s north-south corridor, which links mineral-rich Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Botswana and the port of Durban in South Africa.