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Tanzania's roads agency is checking compensation records for property owners along Nelson Mandela Road in Dar es Salaam, with payments still to be scheduled as it prepares the fifth phase of the city's bus rapid transit corridor.
The City of Cape Town has handed keys to 26 families at the Florida housing site, the latest phase of the Elsies River Infill Housing Project spread across six sites.
Local Government Minister Mahama Ayariga says the Inner City Big Push will map and upgrade deprived urban districts in Accra, Kumasi and Sekondi-Takoradi, with government and homeowners sharing the infrastructure bill.
Abland and its investment partners have opened the 8,000m² Central Blue Shopping Centre in Blue Downs, fully let and anchored by Superspar, as the surrounding estate moves toward roughly 1,800 homes.
A new analysis by the Tanzania Investment and Consultant Group puts the daily cost of disorganised urban growth in Dar es Salaam at up to 8.5bn/-, and warns the bill could reach 12bn/- by 2030 if current patterns persist.
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja says the Eastleigh building that collapsed on Friday had construction approval but no occupation certificate, blaming weak enforcement and penalties too small to deter illegal development.
President Hakainde Hichilema has handed over the title deed for land earmarked for COMESA's new headquarters, with the bloc holding its 25th summit of heads of state and government in Harare.
Ghana has launched a United Nations-backed project to promote low-carbon, locally sourced building materials and affordable housing, with the works and housing minister arguing the country's 1.83 million-unit deficit is a chance to build more sustainably.
Egypt's Minister of Local Development and Environment, Manal Awad, says detailed urban plans for Nakhl and El-Hasana are complete, with Nakhl's designated urban area set to more than triple to 1,251 feddans by 2037.