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Nigeria: Millions Budgeted for Office Construction in Boko Haram-Controlled Forest

[Premium Times] From their enclave, the terrorists have staged violent attacks against civilians and security personnel including local vigilantes trying to subdue their reign.
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Zimbabwe: Harare-Chirundu Highway Upgrade Triggers Job Rush

[New Zimbabwe] HUNDREDS of youths are daily flocking to the Department of Labour offices in Chinhoyi where they are registering their names for possible employment at the recently unveiled Harare-Chirundu highway project.
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Nigeria: FIRS Faults Buhari’s N2.59trn Tax Credit Scheme On Road Construction

[Daily Trust] The Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zacheus Adedeji, on Wednesday, faulted the N2.59 trillion Tax Credit Scheme introduced by former President Muhammadu Buhari's administration for road construction.
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Nigeria: Benue Residents Lament Increase in Cement Price

[Vanguard] End users of cement in Benue have decried the sudden increase in the price of the product from N5,500 to N8,000.
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Nigeria: Federal Govt Sets Up Security Committee On Highway Projects

[Leadership] Federal government has established an ad-hoc ministerial committee on security of highways construction projects across the country.
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Liberia: Mano River Union Backs New Railway Construction of New Multi-User Railway By Hpx, Guma Group and Liberian Government

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Mano River Union (MRU), representing the collective interests and development aspirations of our member states, is delighted to express its full support for the recent announcement made by High Power Exploration Inc (HPX) regarding a pioneering agreement--a Letter of Intent with the Government of Liberia and the Guma Africa Group Ltd.
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Tunisia: Construction of Kairouan University Hospital to Begin Before End of H1 2024

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The construction works of King Salman bin Abdulaziz University Hospital in Kairouan are expected to begin before the end of the first half of 2024, after the resolution of problems and difficulties, said a Prime Ministry statement issued on Monday evening.
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Gambia: Government Awards Six Road Construction Contracts to Local Contractors

[Foroyaa] The Minister of Transport, Works and Infrastructure (MoTWI), Ebrima Sillah, has said six out of nine ongoing road construction projects have been awarded to local contractors, in order to promote Gambian engineers in the area of road construction.
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Nigeria: How Rising Cost of Building Materials Puts Nigerians On Edge

[Daily Trust] The rising cost of building materials in Nigeria is increasingly hitting the construction industry hard, with fears that a large number of projects could be put on hold as developers are now on edge about what to do.
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Kenya: Construction Permit for LPG Facility Hit By Explosion Was Rejected, EPRA

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) has revealed that the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) storage and facility plant in Mradi, Embakasi, exploded last evening.
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