Turkish company Hakan Mining and Electricity Generation Industry Inc. has signed a power purchase and concessional agreement with Rwanda to design, build, finance, own, operate and transfer an 80-MW peat-to-power plant on the eastern African country’s marshland area of Gisagara, located on the border with Burundi.
Chinese contractor Anhui Foreign Economic Construction has filed suit to challenge a directive by Namibia’s President Hage Geingob halting a $477-million airport upgrade the company was awarded in early December.
Algeria’s Ministry of Transport has signed an agreement with three firms for the construction of a $3.5-billion deep-sea port in Algeria over the next seven years.
French engineering, design and project management firm Artelia has been picked to replace Deltares—an independent Dutch institute for applied research in water and subsurface—in a contract to study the impact of the $4 billion Great Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the flow of the Nile River.
The Electrify Africa Act, passed in Congress last month, will spur public and private sector-financed clean energy development in the continent's sub-Saharan region.
$600-million, 160-MW concentrated solar powerplant scheduled for start-up on Dec. 27 is ready to go but awaits delayed ceremonial launch. By Shem Oirere
South African appeals court overturns $315-million nuclear retrofit contract, while Chinese agree to underwrite coal-fired power plant expansion in Zimbabwe.