Oman’s OQ studies 500MW solar project in Angola
Angola’s expanding economic relationship with Oman has produced a concrete infrastructure proposition: OQ Alternative Energy and Angola’s Ministry of Energy and Water will evaluate the potential development of roughly 500MW of renewable generation together with...
Maun Solar Megaproject: 30-Year 500MW PPA Sealed with Oman
Botswana has some of the most generous sunlight on the planet and, for most of its history, almost no large-scale way to capture it. The country has burned coal and imported power across the regional grid while the Kalahari sun went largely unmonetised — a resource as...
Schools You Can See: China’s Visible but Underwritten Education Build in Africa
Property - Real Estate & Development · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 A school building is a billboard; a school system is a budget. China's education footprint in Africa is among its most photographed contributions, yet the...
Clinics and Classrooms: China’s Twin-Track Health Story in Africa
Property - Real Estate & Development · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 A donated hospital wing is easy to photograph; a trained anaesthetist is not. China's health record in Africa has long been told through buildings and medical...
Hospitals as Aid: China’s Brick-and-Mortar Health Footprint in Africa
Property - Real Estate & Development · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 A new hospital photographs well: a ribbon, a plaque, a gleaming ward. It is among the most visible forms of social-infrastructure aid a donor can offer - and among...
Power Plants by the Dozen: How China Made Generation a Delivery Category
China’s foreign ministry counts more than 80 large-scale power facilities and 120 million kW built across Africa since 2000 – generation turned into a continent-wide product line.
Karuma: Uganda’s 600 MW Bet on Industry, Built Over Twelve Years
Uganda’s largest power plant came online in 2024, doubling effective capacity. The wager is that 600 MW of Chinese-built hydropower can pull industry into a country that does not yet need it.
Bui Dam: How Ghana Bought 400 MW on Commercial Terms From China
Ghana built the Bui hydropower dam to escape blackouts. Its US$292 million Chinese loan carried a 6.1 per cent rate and no grant element – a power-capacity story priced like a mortgage.
The Hall as Hard Asset: China’s Conference Centres and the Business Climate
A refurbished hall in Yaounde looks like a gift. Read as infrastructure, China’s conference-centre diplomacy is a quieter bet on Africa’s business environment.
A Roof Counted Twice: China’s Africa Housing, Seen From the Household
Social housing rarely makes the China-Africa ledger. In Djibouti two parallel schemes show what the household-facing side of infrastructure actually delivers – and what it leaves uncounted.
Small and Beautiful: China Recasts Africa Deals Around Airports and Grids
Beijing once measured its Africa ledger in mega-loans. The deals it signed with Chad and Senegal in 2024 are smaller, narrower and aimed at the everyday grid.
From port to inland market: the Northern Corridor’s longer arithmetic
Mombasa to the interior is the showcase corridor. The harder economics sit in the dry-season roads of Kenya’s north, where a day’s trip should take hours.
Small towns on the line: corridor infrastructure as a growth enabler
Flagship corridors are sold by capital-city endpoints. The quieter story is what happens to the towns the road passes through on the way.
Bridges as Multipliers: Mozambique’s 3km Span and Its 4% Debt
Africa’s longest suspension bridge cut a six-hour journey to 90 minutes across Maputo Bay. It also left Mozambique repaying a US$785m loan at 4% – a multiplier of commerce, and of debt.
Roads First: How 100,000km of Chinese-Built Tarmac Reshaped Africa
China’s foreign ministry counts nearly 100,000km of highways built across Africa. The headline rail projects get the attention – but roads, quieter and more numerous, did the heavier lifting.
Abuja Light Rail: A Capital’s Metro That Opened, Stalled, Then Reopened
Nigeria’s capital launched the country’s first urban rail in 2018. It then sat largely idle for years before service resumed in 2024.
Addis Ababa Transit: A Metro Built for the Industrial City It Awaited
The light rail’s southern line was routed deliberately toward factory districts. The transit arrived; the industrial boom it anticipated arrived more slowly.
Addis Ababa Light Rail: Africa’s First Metro and the Bill After the Ribbon
Sub-Saharan Africa’s first light rail opened in 2015 to genuine acclaim. Within a decade it needed rescuing from its own decline.
Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway: The Export Line That Trucks Keep Overtaking
A 753-kilometre electric railway was built to carry a landlocked nation’s trade to the sea. Eight years on, much of that trade still goes by road.
Beyond the freight line: Kenya’s commuter rail revival rides in the SGR’s shadow
The SGR was sold on cargo. The harder transport problem – moving Nairobi’s commuters – runs on a separate, older network now being rebuilt with different money toward 100,000 riders a day.