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The standard-gauge line route stretches from Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean to land-locked Rawanda and Burundi and parallels the existing narrow-gauge line for much of the way before establishing new links to the interior.

$569M South Africa Solar Plant Construction Starts

Shem Oirere

July 19, 2016

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Project is a milestone for South African effort to develop more than 13,000 MW of clean energy by 2030.

Russian Consortium Pulls Out of Uganda Refinery Project

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July 19, 2016

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A consortium led by a Russian firm withdrew from leading construction of a $4-billion crude oil processing plant project in Uganda, but is open to returning to the project.

Transportation Infrastructure

Major Port Project in South Africa Put On Hold

Economic Slowdown Cited

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July 15, 2016

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Proposed new port in Durban is to be created by excavating an old airport into a basin, but economic downturn causes sponsor to shelve it for now. Meanwhile, plans for existing port expansion stay on track.

East Africa Pipeline Project Takes New Twist

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June 17, 2016

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Delayed construction of a 1,120-kilometer-long, $4.5-billion crude-oil pipeline in East Africa changed course when Uganda proposed a second, 1,410-km-long, $4-billion route through Tanzania to the Indian Ocean—abandoning the original agreement to go through Kenya.

Salini Impregilo Wins $2.8-Billion Hydropower Contract in Ethiopia

Italian contractor adds another large dam project to its robust renewable-energy portfolio

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June 17, 2016

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The contract involves the construction, with financing from Italy’s credit agency Servizi Assicuative de Commerce Estero, of the 2,200-MW Koysha Dam on the Omo River in the southern part of the country.

Energy

Siemens Installs First Turbine for Natural-Gas Power Plant in Egypt

Part of ambitious plan to double country's electrical generating capacity

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May 27, 2016

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Siemens AG has installed the first of two 400-MW turbines at the Beni Suef combined-cycle power plant in Egypt, a major milestone in the construction of three Egyptian power plants that will have a total capacity of 14.4 GW