Category: Infrastructure

Kenya's ailing Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) announced plans to resume passenger service between Nairobi and Mombasa now that President Uhuru Kenyatta lifted the partial lockdown in the capitol. During the lockdown, brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak, the SGR only carried cargo on its various ...

By Emmanuel Amoah-Darkwah and Ricardo Reboredo Africa has not been spared from the economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is projecting -3.2% GDP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, while the World Bank also projects GDP growth ...

Last week the Nigerian Debt Management Office (DMO) published a refreshingly simple and transparent summary of the country's borrowing from China that included detailed information on how much the country owes, the terms and what the money's being used for. This is not something we've ...

Ghana's Railway Minister Joe Ghartey signed a $235 million agreement on Tuesday to buy dozens of locomotives and passenger trains from the state-owned Chinese company DongFang Electric International. All of the new trains will be standard gauge compliant, similar to rail standards ...

Kenya's National Treasury is calling on the parliament to provide it with $940 million dollars for the latest instalment to repay China for the controversial Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). The Treasury's request prompted new appeals from MPs for urgent talks with ...

One of the first classes of Nigerian railway engineers graduated this weekend from China's Central South University (中南大学）in Hunan and will soon return to help manage the new Chinese-built railways back home. ...

Amid all of the talk of Chinese debt traps and moves by Nigerian legislators to review the past 20 years of loan contracts with China, the country's Debt Management Office (DMO) in Abuja wants to clarify a few things. The DMO on Friday published a short statement ...

Kenya's Court of Appeals dealt a devastating blow to the government and its national rail company when it ruled on Friday that the $4.7 billion (Ksh 500 million) contract with the state-owned China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) was illegal and violated the constitution. ...

This month, our review of the media reports published in the wider Mediterranean region focuses on the debate surrounding the “oil-for-reconstruction” agreement between Iraq and China; Sino-French competition in Morocco, Algeria, and Lebanon; the Iranian discussion about the relations with China; and continuing criticism from a number ...

Nigeria's Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, confirmed that China is expected to approve a new $5.3 billion loan package to build the Ibadan-Kano rail line. The minister made the comments during an interview with the Nigerian news network ChannelsTV and added that he expects the funds ...

While Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and his cabinet appear increasingly determined to borrow more from China to fund infrastructure projects, even amid the current economic crisis, critics in the House of Representatives are expressing alarm over the lack transparency in the Chinese loans.

South Sudan's Vice President of Infrastructure announced this week that construction of the 392km Juba-Rumbek highway to Uganda will be suspended due to quality concerns. Portions of the road were swept away during a heavy storm ...