[Ghanaian Times] Communications Manager of Hearts of Oak, Kwame Opare Addo, has disclosed that the first phase of the club's Pobiman Project would be completed in three weeks.
[Ghanaian Times] A $321-million pharmaceutical park is to be developed within the Dawa Industrial Zone (DIZ) in the Greater Accra Region, to serve as a one-stop shop for the processing and manufacturing of pharmaceutical products like drugs.
[Ghanaian Times] Takoradi -- Construction works have begun on a 3-tier PTC Interchange project at the Kwame Nkrumah roundabout in Takoradi, the Western Region capital.
[SNA] Khartoum -- Sudan Railways Corporation SRC General Manager Eng. Walid Ahmed Mahmoud has discussed means of joint cooperation between the corporation and the American Administration.
[East African] The World Bank on Thursday approved a $130 million grant to Uganda for road infrastructure in the West Nile sub-region. The region hosts the bulk of South Sudanese and Congolese refugees.
[Leadership] Asaba -- A political pressure group, the Delta North Progressive Assembly, has called on the Federal Government to expedite work on the ongoing Second Niger Bridge saying that there was an urgent need to give reprieve to the present Niger Bridge linking Delta State and the South East region.
[Nation] Elgeyo-Marakwet County's development coordination committee has indefinitely suspended construction work at the Sh281 million Kamariny Stadium due to slow pace of work.
[East African] Uganda's prolonged delays in completing the construction of an oil jetty on its side of Lake Victoria has frustrated Kenya's efforts to relaunch the Kisumu Port, whose refurbishment last year cost taxpayers $30 million (Ksh3 billion).
[CISA] Addis Ababa -- President of the Episcopal Conference of Ethiopia Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel has called for dialogue between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on the construction of Great Renaissance Dam of Ethiopia (Gerd), a massive hydroelectric dam, which is causing tensions among the countries of the Nile Basin.
[Addis Standard] It has been almost a decade since Ethiopia has launched the construction of the GERD in 2011. The project is fully funded by Ethiopians and it is considered as a flagship of transformation for the economy of the country. The dam that will change the lives of millions of Ethiopian is, however, not welcomed by the down riparian countries, namely Sudan and Egypt, the latter with stiff resistance.