Uhuru Kenyatta, president of Kenya, has been recognised with the 2018 African Road Builders (ARB) award...
21 May 2018
The Apapa port was originally designed to receive imported goods and petroleum products and move them out by railway and pipelines, and not to receive articulated trucks and heavy-duty vehicles...
Ejiofor Alike 13 Dec 2017
The Nigerian government needs about $16 billion to construct and modernise major rail lines, an official said...
Sani Tukur 9 Oct 2017
According to Brian Monakali, deputy chairman of the International Heavy Haul Association and chairman of the SA Heavy Haul Association, the future state and role of the heavy haul rail network in Africa is a critical discussion...
14 Sep 2017
It has been described by Chinese president Xi Jinping as the “project of the century”. And the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative is certainly ambitious...
Ricardo Reboredo 7 Sep 2017
With Chinese conductors at the helm, a fleet of shiny new trains will this week begin plying a new route from the Ethiopian capital to Djibouti, in a major boost to both economies...
6 Oct 2016
A mega-project in East Africa, comprising roads, railways, port and pipelines, will link Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan...
16 Sep 2016
Roads, railways, port, pipelines to link Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan...
Wanjohi Kabukuru 12 Sep 2016
There are fewer than fifty landlocked countries in the world but no less than ten form an interconnected chain...
Aboubaker Omar Hadi 1 Jul 2016
To paraphrase from the iconic Star Trek, Africa is the "next (as opposed to the final) business frontier". And judging from exceptional recent economic growth, wealth in natural resources and sheer international business interest on the continent, it seems no-one has trouble believing this.
19 Aug 2013
Although structural impediments such as poor logistics render the search for new avenues of deeper intra-African trade challenging‚ there is an immediate and compelling growth potential in the trade of agricultural products‚ Standard Bank research analyst Simon Freemantle said last week.
Helmo Preuss 22 Apr 2013
Economies in sub-Saharan Africa will ride out the bumpy global recovery in the next few years to post growth rates not seen outside Asia, the IMF said in its latest economic forecasts Tuesday (16 April).
17 Apr 2013
