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Egypt's government witnessed two hospitality agreements on Tuesday: a $180 million Titanic hotel opening in Sharm El-Sheikh and a PRE Group-Hilton partnership worth an estimated EGP 14 billion covering six hotels and four branded residential developments.
A.B. Janruwa Enterprises says contractors started fencing its four-hectare Chalawa site without a revocation notice, putting a multi-billion-naira expansion and 2,000 planned jobs at risk.
Cape Town recorded 283,379 informal structures in 2025, up from 169,330 in 2016, while the mapped footprint of informality grew by about 1,900 hectares, according to the city's latest spatial trends report.
Nigeria's engineering regulator has established prima facie cases against two engineers over the July collapse of a canopy at the Gombe State House of Assembly and the May collapse of a three-storey building in Gaduwa, Abuja, and referred both to its disciplinary tribunal.
Falibra Group and SCF SA have signed an agreement with Hilton to open a 196-room DoubleTree by Hilton in Conakry on the site of the Grand Hôtel de l'Indépendance, marking the brand's entry into Guinea.
Exemplar Retail and AJ Property Holdings are developing the R388 million Ntuzuma Junction shopping centre in Durban, a two-level 17,000 sqm mall anchored by Boxer and Shoprite with an April 2027 opening target.
The Sh778.2 million Majengo-Talai Affordable Housing Project in Kericho Town is 63 per cent complete, with 324 units under construction as the county's pipeline grows to about 4,852 homes.
A UN World Cities Day webinar hosted by Nelson Mandela University heard that certified innovative building systems, from polystyrene-cement blocks to cross-laminated timber, are ready to scale but still face financing and regulatory hurdles.
The National Land Authority says detailed plans for a five-kilometre radius around the new Kigali International Airport will be completed by the end of December, with permitted land uses published in January 2027.