East Africa

Transport Infrastructure

Kenya aviation union states to strike from Aug 19 over Adani offer

The Kenya Air Travel Workers Union said on Monday that employees of Kenya Airways and Kenya Airports Authority would go on strike from August 19 over an investment proposition from an Indian company, Adani Airport Holdings, at the country's main airport. The strike would likely trigger substantial interruption to Kenya's national provider Kenya Airways and to operations of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, a key African travel hub. We shall reconsider our intention to engage in industrial action ... just if the Adani Airport Holdings Limited's offer is deserted in its totality, said Moss Ndiema, head of the...

Transport Infrastructure

Ethiopian Airline companies indications deal for design of 'biggest airport in Africa'

Ethiopia has actually signed an agreement for the style of a new fourrunway airport that will be Africa's biggest when building and construction is finished in 2029, the head of stateowned Ethiopian Airlines stated on Friday. Found near the town of Bishoftu, around 45 km (28 miles). from the capital Addis Ababa, the airport will have capacity to. deal with 100 million travelers a year and provide parking for 270. airplane, Ethiopian Airlines' CEO Mesfin Tasew told a news. conference. Dubai-based engineering and consulting company Sidara will. style the airport, the business's director of operations Tariq. Al Qanni said. Strategies...

Transport Infrastructure

Very first vessel struck by Yemen's Houthis in 2 weeks arrives in Djibouti, manager states

A container vessel that was hit by Houthi militants off Yemen on Saturday in the first such attack in two weeks, has arrived securely in Djibouti and the strike caused no injuries or water ingress, its Greek supervisor stated on Monday. Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Sunday that they targeted the Liberia-flagged MV Groton in the Gulf of Aden with ballistic missiles, claiming their first attack on shipping lanes given that Israel performed a retaliatory airstrike in Hodeidah port on July 20. The MV Groton was struck by a missile 60 nautical miles off the coast of Yemen, while en...

Transport Infrastructure

Tanzania releases $3.1 billion railway in drive to increase facilities

Tanzania on Thursday launched a 541km contemporary standard gauge train running between its administrative and industrial capitals, built by a Turkish company as part of a federal government drive to enhance transportation facilities African federal governments have actually been racing to build infrastructure. like roadways, trains and bridges, though critics have actually questioned some of the loans drawn from nations like China to fund the drive stating they are saddling future generations with financial obligation. Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan flagged off the electric train services at a ceremony in the business capital Dar es Salaam, before boarding a train...

Transport Infrastructure

Death toll from Ethiopia landslides could leap to 500, UN states

The death toll from landslides in Ethiopia earlier this week has increased to 257 and is expected to practically double, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said on Thursday. Heavy rains activated a landslide burying people in the Gofa Zone of southern Ethiopia on Sunday night and a second one on Monday engulfed those engaged in rescue efforts. The death toll is expected to rise to up to 500 people as per information received from local authorities, UNOCHA said in a report. On Tuesday, Ethiopia's National Disaster Threat Management Commission had put the death toll...

Transport Infrastructure

Uganda signs deal with UAE to build 3rd worldwide airport

Uganda has signed a pact with an organization association from the United Arab Emirates to construct a new international airport, President Yoweri Museveni's. workplace stated on Friday. The offer for the East African country's third such airport. expands the UAE's financial footprint beyond its interests in the. renewable energy and oil and gas markets. The UAE's Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry will. build the airport just outside the Kidepo National Park in the. northeast near Uganda's border with Kenya, Museveni's office. stated in a statement, without providing the expense. Building will begin in August, said Abdallah Sultan Al ....

Passenger Transportation Services

Hard-pressed Kenyan motorists defy Uber's algorithm, set their own fares

In eight years of working as a cab driver in Kenya's capital, Judith Chepkwony has never ever seen organization this bad. A bruising cost war in between ride-hailing business Uber Technologies, Estonia's Bolt and regional start-ups Little and Faras has driven fares down to a level that numerous chauffeurs state is unsustainable, requiring them to set their own higher rates. The majority of us have these cars on loan and the expense of living has increased, Chepkwony told Reuters. I attempt to convince the customers to consent to the higher rates. If they can't pay, we cancel and let them...