Rwanda: Over 20,000 Classrooms Built to Decongest Schools

[New Times] Over 22,000 classrooms for nursery, primary and secondary schools have been built to address congestion in schools.
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Ghana: GhIS Developing Two Manuals to Promote Professionalism

[Ghanaian Times] Cape Coast -- The Ghana Institution of Surveyors (GhIS) is developing two manuals to promote professionalism among practitioners in the country.
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Rwanda: Why Housing Authority Revised Guidelines On Using Mud Bricks

[New Times] Rwanda Housing Authority (RHA) has released new guidelines for using adobe (mud) bricks known as rukarakara, aimed at improving their standards and preventing disasters in the housing sector.
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Tanzania: Relocation Uganda’s High Commission to Dodoma in Pipeline

[Daily News] Uganda plans to construct a chancery building for the Ugandan High Commission in Dodoma, Tanzania.
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South Africa: Construction Waste Is Costly – What’s Causing It On South African Building Sites

[The Conversation Africa] The construction industry contributes significantly to a country's economy through infrastructure development. The industry has expanded rapidly worldwide and further growth is expected.
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Nigeria: Govt Should Take Over Construction of Ptsd Medical Centre for Military, Police Victims – Aisha Buhari

[Vanguard] The First Lady Dr. (Mrs) Aisha Buhari declared on Tuesday, that the Armed Force's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Centre, originally scheduled to be built by the Defence and Police Officer's Wives Association for treatment of military and Police personnel, would now be built by the federal government.
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Nigeria: Incessant Building Collapse in Nigeria… (I)

[This Day] Regulating agencies should be alive to their responsibility
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Ghana: Chamber of Construction Industry Tasked to Be Innovative

[Ghanaian Times] Koforidua -- The President of the Ghana Institute of Engineers (GhiE), Professor Charles Adams, has called on the members of the Chamber of Construction Industry to find innovative ways to fund, maintain roads and infrastructural projects in the country.
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Nigeria: Again, 3-Storey Building Collapses in Ibadan

[Daily Trust] Barely two weeks after an uncompleted five-storey hotel building collapsed in Awosika, Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State, another three-storey building collapsed on Monday around Adabor Junction, Ashi, Bodija, Ibadan.
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Tanzania: Dar es Salaam On Verge of Major Infrastructure Facelift

[Daily News] Dodoma -- Dar es Salaam is on the verge of a major infrastructure facelift as the much-awaited construction of a 600bn/- Jangwani Bridge and development of the Msimbazi valley are scheduled to begin this financial year.
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