Namibia: Railway Construction Technicians Complete Maintenance Training

[Namibia Economist] Eleven young men and women will now join the ranks of those professionals tasked with upgrading railway lines across the country, after they recently graduated as platelayers and trackmasters.
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Uganda: Museveni Orders Eviction of Centenary Park Businesses

[Monitor] Businesses operating at the Centenary Park in Kampala will today be evicted and land handed over to government to pave way for construction of the Jinja Expressway.
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Sierra Leone: President Inspects the Construction of Myohaung Officers’

[Sierra Leone Government] His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has stopped at Wilberforce Barracks to inspect the on-going construction of a five-storey building comprising 104 rooms with all modern facilities for single officers.
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Ghana: Sports Minister Explains Nkawkaw Sports Stadium Delay

[Ghanaian Times] The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Isaac Kwame Asiamah, has attributed the delay in the reconstruction of the Nkawkaw Sports Stadium to the redesigning of the multi-purpose edifice.
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Ghana: ‘Construction in Buem of Four Roads in One Year Unprecedented’- Jasikan Chief

[Ghana Presidency] "When our President declared 2020 'The Year of Roads', we had the assurance that he would deliver, and that Buem will not be left out. We are witnessing the ongoing road projects: Hohoe-Jasikan road; Jasikan-Worawora road; Jasikan-Bodada road; Jasikan-Kadjebi-Pepesu road; and Jasikan town roads. It is unprecedented that Buem has all these going on in one single year. This, is indeed, credit to our hardworking President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Thank you so much Nana, we appreciate you."
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Nigeria: Govt Owes Road Contractors U.S.$1 Billion – Minister

[This Day] The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday put the debt the federal government owes contractors for 711 ongoing road projects nationwide at N392 billion.
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Ghana: 11 Kpone Affordable Apartment Blocks Completed, 150 to Follow By 2023

[Ghanaian Times] A total of 11 apartment blocks have been completed at the TDC Company Limited's Community 26 Kpone Affordable Housing Project located in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality.
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Uganda: Uganda, DR Congo Decide to Make Roads, Not War

[East African] If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, that to lasting peace with neighbours is layered with bitumen and straddled by high-voltage electricity lines.
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Nigeria: Mixed Performance Trails National Housing Delivery

[Vanguard] There are indications that Nigeria's housing delivery programme has begun to yield results as the National Housing Fund (NHF) recorded 18.2 per cent growth to N399.6 billion in the first half of 2020 (H1'20) against N338.1 billion in the corresponding period of 2019, H1'19.
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Nigeria: Cross River Governor Promises World-Class Luxury Resort As Dubai Firm Invests in Calas Vegas

[Leadership] Calabar -- Calas Vegas, a twin Island located in Calabar, off the coast of the Atlantic ocean, is set to become a tourists' destination as a team of investors from Dubai announced its involvement in turning Governor Ben Ayade's vision into Nigeria's answer to the Gulf country.
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