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Zimbabwe is engaging Japan to help  fund four major road projects including the construction of missing links on Harare Drive, Phase 2 of the Airport Road, Birchenough Bridge and Chirundu Highway. Transport and Infrastructural Development...

Kenya will soon be home to Africa’s first hybrid power plant thanks to a deal signed in the just concluded 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 7) in Yokohama, Japan. The deal signed by...

Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) has announced that it was investing in off-grid utility BBOXX Limited. Since its establishment in 2010, BBOXX has provided clean and affordable energy and other essential modern utilities. It delivers innovative...

Perth-based CPC Engineering has entered into a joint venture with African companies to service Africa’s mining industry Africa Project Partnerships, formed in the Q1 2019, brings together companies with expertise across a range of disciplines...

A turbulent domestic market is negatively affecting the financial performance of South African Construction firm Aveng, its chief executive has observed. Mr Sean Flanagan said that his company was battling a weak economy and a pullback...

Equatorial Guinea is set to construct the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and regasification plant in West Africa, advancing efforts to monetize gas resources through the creation of a domestic gas-to-power infrastructure. Located at...

Construction is underway on a Sh1 billion cancer centre in Kenya  to help treat the cancer menace currently affecting thousands of Kenyans.  The Hospital being constructed in the North-Western part of the countryby Mediheal Group of Hospitals be...

Diageo is investing £180 million in renewable energy resources across its African sites to ensure its breweries are the most carbon and water efficient possible. This commitment represents Diageo’s largest environmental investment in a decade...

Inadequate funding is a major impediment to addressing a major housing deficit currently facing Africa, a top official from Pan-African residential development financier Shelter Afrique has said. Chief executive officer Andrew Chimphondah says that availability of...

Glencore Plc is planning to shut down its Mutanda project in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to reduced economic viability, the firm's chief executive has said. Mr Ivan Glasenberg announced the plans even as...