The government of Kenya and the African Development Bank have signed agreements totaling $366 million in financial aid for two projects: a geothermal steam field and a road upgrade, which will open landlocked Ethiopia to the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa.
Photo courtesy of LaFarge Lafarge Industries South Africa's Lichtenburg cement plant has a capacity of 2.4 million tonnes of cement a year. Lafarge Industries South Africa (Pty) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of French cement maker Lafarge, will pay a $19.5-million penalty after admitting to charges of price fixing and market manipulation in southern Africa.South Africa's Competition Commission said Lafarge has owned up to its participation in a cement cartel in southern Africa and agreed to pay the penalty, which represents 6% of its 2010 business revenue in the five countries that form the Southern African Customs Union: South Africa,
Rendering courtesy KSP Jurgen Engel Architekten The mosques minaret will ascend 265 m into the sky, making it the tallest minaret on any mosque in the world. Rendering courtesy KSP Jurgen Engel Architekten The mosques prayer hall, shaped like a cube with regular rows of pillars, will be able to accommodate 35,000 worshippers at any one time. Algeria is set to begin construction of what is expected to be, after worship centers in the Saudi Arabia holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the world’s third-largest mosque. In February, China’s state-controlled China State Construction Engineering Corp. signed a $1.3-billion construction contract
Plans to fast-track construction of Namibia’s largest dam received a major blow in late January when the state-run Tender Board cancelled a solicitation for the project.
Transnet SOC Ltd., the state-owned port and rail-freight operator of South Africa, and Swaziland Railway have inked a deal for the construction of a 146-kilometer rail line that will create additional capacity for transporting coal exports from the region.
Kenya and landlocked South Sudan have signed a $1.5-billion deal for the construction of a new 1,260-kilometer oil pipeline linking Juba and the Indian Ocean port town of Lamu, where the former country has launched a multibillion port expansion plan that includes an oil refinery with a capacity 120,000 barrels per day, or bpd.
Kenya's largest geothermal power project has broken ground, with Japan's Toyota Tsusho Corp. and South Korea's Hyundai Engineering serving as the prime contractor.
Construction of the $298-million Neckartal Dam in Namibia could be delayed after government officials failed to agree on a contractor selection between two contenders, China’s state-owned China Henan International Cooperation Group, or CHICO, and Italy’s Impregilo SPA.The 850-million-cu-meter dam will be built on the Fish River about 40 kilometers west of the city of Keetmapshoop.
Construction of a new $530-million airport in Senegal is under way but behind schedule as the country attempts to turn itself into a leading business hub in West Africa.