Corridor Cash: How AfDB’s US$500 Million Rebuilds Tanzania’s Roads
A road's worst cost rarely shows up in the construction budget. It shows up afterwards, year after year, in the fuel, tyres and repairs that bad surfaces extract from every vehicle that uses them. Tanzania's transport planners have long understood this, and the...
Ethiopia is merging power-grid and digital infrastructure
The RISED programme combines transmission modernisation, renewable integration and fibre expansion, showing how one national grid can carry both electricity and broadband capability. Ethiopia’s RISED programme is useful because it treats electricity and digital...
South Africa’s metro loan ties infrastructure money to performance
A $1 billion New Development Bank facility links financing for metropolitan water, electricity and waste services to verified institutional and operational reforms. South Africa’s new $1 billion loan from the New Development Bank is significant because it does not...
Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
Public housing schemes tend to fail at the same join: they build the houses but withhold the ownership. A tenant who can occupy a state-built home but never own it is a tenant forever, with no stake to maintain and no asset to build on. The reform of Botswana's...
P558m Road Contract to Spur Rural Mobility
Botswana's road map tells two stories at once. One is of a well-connected spine — the highways linking Gaborone, Francistown and the major centres are real and serviceable. The other is of the gravel and dirt that still separates many rural settlements from that...
Clinics and Classrooms: China’s Twin-Track Health Story in Africa
China’s foreign ministry counts decades of medical teams and tens of thousands trained. The harder question is what stays once the visiting doctors fly home.
Africa CDC’s Headquarters: A China-Built Home for a Sovereignty Question
Africa’s disease-control agency got a continental headquarters built and paid for by China. The building is a gift; the autonomy it houses is the harder thing.
Hospitals as Aid: China’s Brick-and-Mortar Health Footprint in Africa
A hospital is the most visible form of aid and the hardest to sustain. China has funded scores across Africa – and the building is the easy part.
South-C: How Ignored Stop-Orders Preceded a Nairobi High-Rise Collapse
A Nairobi South-C high-rise collapsed in January 2026 despite repeated stop-orders, evacuating 70 families amid regulatory enforcement failure.
TEDA Suez: How a Chinese desert zone became Egypt’s industrial showpiece
A patch of Red Sea Gobi was meant to lure factories away from the Suez Canal’s shadow. Two decades on it hosts nearly 200 firms – and a set of questions about who the industrialisation is really for.
Dukem’s Wager: What One Chinese Industrial Zone Taught Ethiopia About Factories
A private Chinese developer bet US$180 million on a field outside Addis Ababa in 2007. What grew there became a test of whether Africa can host the factory floor.
KSh 220 Billion: How Ruto’s Mega-Plan Aims to Turn Nairobi Slums into 169,000 Homes
President Ruto’s KSh 220bn plan promises to upgrade Nairobi’s slums with 169,000 affordable homes, markets and infrastructure.
Generate, Carry, Build: Reading Africa’s Power Sector as One Chain
Generation, transmission and industry are usually budgeted in separate columns. The output of each is the input of the next – which is why the weakest link sets the pace.
The Wires Between: Why Transmission Earns Its Own Story, Not a Footnote
New power plants get the headlines. The lines that carry their output get a clause at the end. That ordering hides where Africa’s electricity is actually lost.
Road Reserves: How KeNHA’s Seven-Day Ultimatum Cleared Thika’s Roadside Traders
KeNHA’s seven-day ultimatum cleared traders from the Thika Superhighway road reserve, exposing the tension between corridors and roadside trade.
Solar for the Off-Grid: 50,000 Households Against a Continental Dark Map
A US$14 million fund targets at least 50,000 families beyond the main grid. Set against more than 600 million Africans without power, the cooperation is precise, modest and worth measuring honestly.
De Aar’s Turbines: A Chinese Wind Flagship in South Africa’s Dry Heart
Longyuan’s De Aar wind farm, 244.5 MW across 163 turbines in the Northern Cape, became the first wind project financed, built and run by a Chinese firm in Africa.
The Lines Between: Why Africa’s Real Power Story Is the Wires, Not the Dams
China’s foreign ministry counts 66,000 km of transmission and distribution lines built across Africa since 2000 – the unglamorous wiring that decides whether a dam ever reaches a home.
Power Plants by the Dozen: How China Made Generation a Delivery Category
China’s foreign ministry counts more than 80 large-scale power facilities and 120 million kW built across Africa since 2000 – generation turned into a continent-wide product line.
Karuma: Uganda’s 600 MW Bet on Industry, Built Over Twelve Years
Uganda’s largest power plant came online in 2024, doubling effective capacity. The wager is that 600 MW of Chinese-built hydropower can pull industry into a country that does not yet need it.
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