Industry Dynamics

South Africa and Mozambique recently show promise in the oil and gas sector, and collaboration between the two countries to create a substantial hub could significantly grow the region's economy.

Recently African construction authorities in their bid to increase construction safety have turned their focus towards starting to regulate and set standards for construction, equipment and building materials.

Some markets are looking at prefab structures or concrete panels or similar for low cost housing in order to embrace new building technologies that promote faster, simpler and cost effective construction as development continues its rapid growth.

The Ugandan government is set to construct five renewable energy plants in series districts in Uganda. The waste-to-energy plants are expected to increase access to energy and will operate using human waste to generate 2.9MW.

Cocoa farmers have obtained official ownership of valuable non-cocoa trees on their farms for the first time ever in Ghana.Farmers in Ghana's Western Region who have successfully petitioned the Ghanaian government to register ownership of trees planted on their cocoa farms.

The government’s immense interest for infrastructure projects sparked the price and quality wars among firms in the country.This lead the Kenyan local cement firms criticize the quality of products being rolled out rival by some cement manufacturers.

Drone technology is a tool that improves communication, safety, and marketing, the use of drones in construction can offer many advantages; capturing real-time images from the field.

The South Africa’s leading canmaking firm is planning to reintroduce aluminium beverage cans to the domestic market after a gap of more than a decade, says by the managing director of Nampak Bevcan .

Sugarcane growers in South Nyanza complain that they didn't get engage in the planned disposal of State-owned millers. they said the team is not “actively involving them in the “design and deliberations on sale of the factories”.