Africa is becoming increasingly important across global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology, influencing how projects are visualised, coordinated, delivered and managed over time.
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South Africa’s construction industry is entering another pivotal period of transition. Large-scale infrastructure delivery programmes, energy expansion, transport moderni...
Ghana has introduced one of the most significant overhauls of its road safety legislation in decades, bringing stricter rules on child restraints, motorcycle helmets and...
Africa’s transport and energy ministers have endorsed two continent-wide policy frameworks that could reshape how people and goods move across one of the world’s fastest-...
Burkina Faso has rarely been cited as a benchmark for large-scale infrastructure delivery. A landlocked West African nation, constrained by limited logistics access and l...
Few industry gatherings carry the same weight in Central Africa’s extractive sector as DRC Mining Week. Now entering its third decade, the Lubumbashi-based conference and...
Ethiopia’s push towards digitised infrastructure has taken a decisive step forward as Ethio telecom and Ethiopian Toll Roads Enterprise roll out an integrated toll paymen...
As South Africa’s construction sector navigates mounting delivery pressures, tighter margins and rising expectations around sustainability and accountability, independent...
South Africa is edging closer to a pivotal moment in its transport evolution, as government prepares to issue a request for proposals for new high-speed rail corridors li...
Across Sub-Saharan Africa, access to electricity remains one of the defining infrastructure challenges of the 21st century. Despite rapid urbanisation, expanding economie...
Africa’s aviation sector sits at a pivotal crossroads. Demand for air travel across the continent is climbing rapidly, driven by urbanisation, rising incomes and a youthf...
Across Africa’s rapidly evolving industrial and infrastructure landscape, procurement has moved far beyond its traditional role as a back-office purchasing function. Toda...
Across Africa, infrastructure is no longer a theoretical policy ambition. It has become a hard economic requirement. Trade integration, urban growth, industrialisation an...
For decades, climate and biodiversity were treated as ethical considerations that sat somewhere outside mainstream investment analysis. That era has ended. Across global...
The African Continental Free Trade Area is not simply a trade agreement. It is a structural shift in how a continent of 1.4 billion people intends to function economicall...
In a region where infrastructure pipelines stretch from giga projects in the Gulf to rapidly expanding transport corridors across Sub Saharan Africa, distribution network...
Western Kenya’s busiest international highway is edging closer to a long-awaited transformation. The Government of Kenya, through its Public-Private Partnerships Director...
Africa’s infrastructure narrative has long been framed around unmet needs, delayed projects, and chronic funding gaps. Yet, as the continent moves deeper into the second...
Kenya’s clean energy transition has quietly become one of the most credible and commercially grounded success stories in global infrastructure. While many countries conti...
Africa’s climate story has never been short on ambition. Across the continent, governments, development institutions, and private sector leaders have spent the better par...
Egypt’s energy transition has moved beyond ambition and into execution, with the Obelisk solar photovoltaic project in Qena Governorate emerging as one of the most conseq...
Few infrastructure projects in Africa carry the same regional weight as the Lobito Atlantic Railway. Stretching across 1,300 kilometres of existing rail alignment, the co...
Water has always shaped Morocco’s agricultural heartlands, but in recent decades the balance has tilted dangerously. Declining rainfall, rising temperatures and relentles...
Kenya has set the wheels in motion for one of its most ambitious transport upgrades in recent years as work begins on the Nairobi–Nakuru–Mau Summit highway expansion. Val...
Africa’s Green Economy Summit (AGES 2026) is preparing to unveil a powerful portfolio of investment-ready ventures that reflect the continent’s growing leadership in sust...
Africa’s infrastructure sector is entering a pivotal moment, shaped by rising demand, bold policy reforms and stronger capital mobilisation. The African Development Bank...
African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) has stepped in with a US$36.4 million contract financing facility supporting Egypt’s SAMCO National Construction Company as it ta...
Egypt continues to seize the momentum of its clean energy revolution, and one of its most ambitious steps forward has just taken a significant leap. The European Bank for...
Africa finds itself standing on the brink of transformative infrastructure growth, yet the gap between ambition and delivery remains stubbornly wide. While the continent...
Zambia’s 2026 National Budget marks a bold turning point in the nation’s transport and logistics landscape. Presented by Finance Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane in Sept...
In the relentless landscapes of Africa, where searing heat, swirling dust and torrential rains can turn a job site into a battleground, only the toughest machinery can ke...
It wasn’t long ago that Western firms had a near-monopoly on Africa’s big construction deals. Back in 1990, companies from the United States and Europe scoope...
Sanlam Investments has renewed its sponsorship for Africa’s Green Economy Summit (AGES) 2026, marking the firm’s third consecutive year of partnership. The event, which t...
Côte d’Ivoire has taken a bold leap toward energy sovereignty with the launch of the Kong Solaire Photovoltaic Project, a large-scale solar power plant in the Tchologo re...
The annual Smarter Mobility Africa Summit 2025 in Johannesburg brought together the brightest minds and boldest innovators in transport to chart a new course for the cont...
Africa’s most influential Public-Private Partnership (PPP) summit returns in 2025, promising a powerful mix of knowledge-sharing, networking, and project acceleration. Th...
In a year defined by climate urgency and economic reinvention, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is stepping up to help Africa transform its climate ambitio...
China’s Global Belt & Road Infrastructure Drive Hits Record Highs China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is surging ahead at a pace not seen in its 12-year...
China Construction Steel Structure Co., Ltd (CCSS) has landed a landmark deal in Morocco valued at US$2.6 billion, signifying a decisive deepening of China’s infrastructu...
Africa’s biggest stage for future transport is set to return in 2025. The Smarter Mobility Africa Summit (SMA) will once again take over Johannesburg’s Sandton Convention...
One Carbon World (OCW) has been confirmed as the official climate impact partner for the upcoming Carbon Markets Africa Summit (CMAS), set to take place in Johannesburg f...
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