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Structural tests on an unfinished two-storey block at Madina Market in Accra returned readings as low as 11 Newtons per square millimetre, prompting a fresh safety warning and plans for demolition and a 24-hour market.
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has asked senators to reconsider the future of Moi Airbase in Eastleigh and Wilson Airport, arguing the city cannot keep relying on decades-old land-use decisions as housing demand and high-rise development press against aviation and security limits.
Lagos has suspended reclamation of wetlands, floodplains and lagoon fronts where developers lack environmental and drainage approvals, with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu warning that building over wetlands is worsening flooding and coastal erosion.
More than 208 shacks were destroyed in a fire at Masinenge informal settlement in KwaZulu-Natal, where the province is building 882 permanent houses and has already moved 586 residents into new homes.
Egypt's MIDYAN Developments has set out a 2027-2030 strategy to add one asset to its built-to-own portfolio each year, building on investments exceeding EGP 12bn in education and healthcare.
Standard Bank Namibia has handed over 15 affordable houses at Onandjaba in the Omusati region as part of a project that delivered 84 homes, under an initiative that has now funded more than 740 houses nationwide.
Four people were injured, one critically, when the building that formerly housed Club Avenida on Moi Avenue in Nairobi's central business district collapsed during a nighttime demolition exercise.
Uganda Railways Corporation will begin removing illegal occupants from its land along the Kampala-Mityana, Mubende and Kamwenge-Kasese corridors on Monday 19 October, before extending the exercise to the Busoga line.
The Nairobi Rivers Commission is re-demarcating the Kibagare River through Parklands to create a public park inside a 30- to 60-metre riverbank buffer, part of Ksh50 billion Nairobi River regeneration frameworks.