The Motswere building in Botswana has been awarded a five-star Green Star Africa - Office Design v1.1 rating by the Green Building Council South Africa...
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards has announced its 2021 shortlist, celebrating buildings and landscapes to have been completed across the globe...
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has seen three major trends emerge as drivers of investment in Africa's commercial property space...
Peter Hodgkinson 22 Jul 2021
Inviting your nominations of inspiring women to be featured in our exclusive August Women's Month interview series...
Bizcommunity.com 20 Jul 2021
Ethiopia has completed filling the reservoir of its huge dam on the Blue Nile river for a second year and the plant may start generating power in the next few months...
Dawit Endeshaw 20 Jul 2021
Kisumu County, Kenya, will host Africities 9 from 26-30 April 2022, under the auspices of the Pan-African Organisation of UCLG Africa...
Simon Thomas 14 Jul 2021
Noël N'guessan, a chemical engineer from Côte d'Ivoire, has been named the winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering's 2021 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation...
UN Security Council members on Thursday, 8 July, backed African Union mediation efforts between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan in a dispute over the operation of...
Michelle Nichols 9 Jul 2021
Tunisia has proposed the UN Security Council push for a binding agreement between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt on the operation of a giant hydropower dam within six months...
Michelle Nichols 8 Jul 2021
The United Nations called on Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt on Tuesday, 6 July, to recommit to talks on the operation of a giant hydropower dam...
Doyinsola Oladipo 7 Jul 2021
Egypt's irrigation minister said on Monday, 5 July, he had received official notice from Ethiopia that it had begun filling the reservoir behind its giant hydropower dam...
Momen Saeed Atallah, Omar Fahmy and Nafisa Eltahir 6 Jul 2021
The Big Four Agenda, announced by President Uhuru Kenyatta in late 2017, has four main pillars. Enhancing manufacturing, food security and nutrition...
Simon Thomas 6 Jul 2021
The United Nations Security Council plans to meet to discuss a dispute between Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt over a giant dam built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile...
Michelle Nichols 2 Jul 2021
With skyscrapers climbing ever higher and unoccupied city areas increasingly scarce, demands on urban space are increasing...
Stuart Connop and Caroline Nash 30 Jun 2021
Ghana's finance ministry has signed a loan agreement worth €280m with Standard Chartered to fund a new section of highway...
Christian Akorlie 29 Jun 2021
Sudan has rejected an Ethiopian proposal to manage the filling for a second time of a giant dam that it is building on the Blue Nile, a senior official said on Sunday, 27 June...
Khalid Abdelaziz 28 Jun 2021
President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Saturday, 26 June, that Tanzania will look to revive a $10bn stalled port project on the eastern coast of the country...
Nuzulack Dausen 28 Jun 2021
Lake Chad's declining water level has been on the political agenda of the Sahel region since the 1960s. The water is shared by Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon...
Nidhi Nagabhatla & Ramazan Caner Sayan 25 Jun 2021
Arab states are calling on the UN Security Council to discuss the dispute over Ethiopia's plan to fill a giant dam it is building on the Blue Nile...
Mahmoud Mourad, Nayera Abdallah and Raya Jalabi 17 Jun 2021
Oil spills, cracked buildings and pollution. Just some of the environmental effects of Kenya's massive railway project...
