Shem Oirere

Bouygues-led consortium will build Abidjan's first rail line set to have a capacity of 500,000 passengers per day.

China Civil Engineering Construction Corp. and China Railway Construction Corp. won a second contract in under three years to build the sixth phase and final portion of 2,561-km railway line in East Africa.

The two projects, a 500-MW solar PV plant and a 500-MW wind farm are developments of UAE-based AMEA Power Ltd.

UAE-based National Marine Dredging Company has won a $272 million contract for dredging a section of the Suez Canal where the container ship Ever Given ran aground more than a year ago.

Six private renewable energy developers have signed 20-year power-purchase agreements with South Africa's state-owned utility Eskom for 13 solar photovoltaic projects across the country.

A consortium led by Norwegian green energy developer and operator Scatec has signed a commercial agreement to finance, construct, operate and maintain a greenfield hydroelectric power plant with peak capacity of 350 MW in the southern African country of Malawi.

The power plant is expected to cost approximately $30 billion.

The project will add a total of 199MW of battery-storage capacity at carefully selected sites across the country to improve reliability of public power utility Eskom's transmission grid.