The Odum of Ala Igbo
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@thatknickfan - I think you're a bit out of your depth here.
Essential The Africa the Media Doesn't Tell You About
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The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
For those who are interested in Ethiopia's military production model:
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
We should be happy that some African countries are indigenously building their own weapons and don't rely on parts or whole weapons systems from perfidious Westerners.
thatrapsfan
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Are you disputing that the bulk of Ethiopia's domestic military industry was established under the Derg? If not, how do you expect African states to emulate this model?
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
I've already deconstructed how your opinion is lacking some nuance in post #2850. Perhaps you should review that before issuing this post.
P.S. I've already acknowledged that this started with the Derg in that post.
Peace
This has probably already been reported, but just in case it has not then here it is.
PRESIDENT LAUNCHES MEGA ROAD PROJECTS
The 103 kilometer Bandajuma – Gendema Highway project was launched in Bandajuma Sowa, Pujehun district by President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on Tuesday May 24, 2016.
The project, linking Sierra Leone and Liberia, is the largest European Union (EU) project ever commissioned in the country. The president later proceeded to launch another 32.8 kilometer Moyamba Junction - Moyamba township road, and four bridges - Magbele, Mabang, Gbangbama and Moyamba Bridges at Moyamba junction on Wednesday May 25, 2016.
Speaking on the occasion, President Koroma referred to the two road projects as major EU projects simultaneously funded in the country. He said government takes infrastructure seriously and thanked the EU for its partnership, noting that his administration has a clear direction with priorities on education, health, energy, infrastructure, agriculture water and sanitation.
The President said the EU, African Development Bank, the World Bank and other development partners are confident and always ready to support his government. He reminded the mammoth gathering that the previous government didn’t properly handle EU funds to construct the first phase of the Songo - Moyamba, Lumley – Tokeh, and the Rogbere - Guinea border roads, which led to the withdrawal of EU support to Sierra Leone.
"It took me and my government 18 months to rebuild the country’s battered relationship with the EU by fully replenishing their funding at the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank," he pointed out, adding that "this is why the EU is today standing by us."
President Koroma emphasized the importance of road network which government is indiscriminately doing across the country and for the national character of his leadership he said, is the reason why the EU and other development partners are always ready to support him.
"As I speak, I have received a call from the Kuwaiti government assuring me of support towards the Hillside bye-pass road," he revealed.
At the launch of the Magbele and Magbang Bridges, President Koroma underscored the economic importance of the bridges, noting that they would connect the north- south and the west and this connectivity, he emphasized, would boom economic activities.
Minister of Works, Housing and Infrastructure Hon. Alhaji Ibrahim Kemoh Sesay commended the president for demonstrating leadership of national character, and thanked the EU for partnering with government in doing an 86 kilometers Freetown - Conakry road, 24 kilometers Freetown - Rogbere road and 162 kilometers Freetown - Bo road and now Bandajuma - Liberia road respectively.
The CSE Country Manager Amadou Gaye said the 103 kilometer road project including the construction of three bridges should, according to the project time line, be delivered in twenty - four months. He assured of completion of the project within the time frame.
Branch Representative of Monie Da Maa Serra Fortunato (MSF) Construction Company in charge of the 32.8 kilometer Moyamba-Junction to Moyamba Town road project, Mario Figueiredo, said the construction of the four bridges will be delivered in 24 months.
The Head of EU Delegation to Sierra Leone, Peter Versteeg also thanked President Koroma and all sectors involved in making the project a reality. He expressed the need for gender mainstreaming, and therefore encouraged CSE contractors to equally consider women during their recruitment of workers. He commended the government for its emphasis on infrastructure as a pillar in its Agenda for Prosperity and assured of EU’s continued support to Sierra Leone. The project costs 105 Million Euros.
Paramount Chief of Sowa chiefdom, Pujehun district, Chief Sowa described President Koroma as a leader with a true national character and thanked him for appointing Ambassador Dr Victor Bockarie Foh as Vice President of the country, and for the immediate construction of the bridge leading to Sowa town, which has greatly facilitated the movement of people in and out of the district.
President Launches Mega Road Projects
PRESIDENT LAUNCHES MEGA ROAD PROJECTS
The 103 kilometer Bandajuma – Gendema Highway project was launched in Bandajuma Sowa, Pujehun district by President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on Tuesday May 24, 2016.
The project, linking Sierra Leone and Liberia, is the largest European Union (EU) project ever commissioned in the country. The president later proceeded to launch another 32.8 kilometer Moyamba Junction - Moyamba township road, and four bridges - Magbele, Mabang, Gbangbama and Moyamba Bridges at Moyamba junction on Wednesday May 25, 2016.
Speaking on the occasion, President Koroma referred to the two road projects as major EU projects simultaneously funded in the country. He said government takes infrastructure seriously and thanked the EU for its partnership, noting that his administration has a clear direction with priorities on education, health, energy, infrastructure, agriculture water and sanitation.
The President said the EU, African Development Bank, the World Bank and other development partners are confident and always ready to support his government. He reminded the mammoth gathering that the previous government didn’t properly handle EU funds to construct the first phase of the Songo - Moyamba, Lumley – Tokeh, and the Rogbere - Guinea border roads, which led to the withdrawal of EU support to Sierra Leone.
"It took me and my government 18 months to rebuild the country’s battered relationship with the EU by fully replenishing their funding at the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank," he pointed out, adding that "this is why the EU is today standing by us."
President Koroma emphasized the importance of road network which government is indiscriminately doing across the country and for the national character of his leadership he said, is the reason why the EU and other development partners are always ready to support him.
"As I speak, I have received a call from the Kuwaiti government assuring me of support towards the Hillside bye-pass road," he revealed.
At the launch of the Magbele and Magbang Bridges, President Koroma underscored the economic importance of the bridges, noting that they would connect the north- south and the west and this connectivity, he emphasized, would boom economic activities.
Minister of Works, Housing and Infrastructure Hon. Alhaji Ibrahim Kemoh Sesay commended the president for demonstrating leadership of national character, and thanked the EU for partnering with government in doing an 86 kilometers Freetown - Conakry road, 24 kilometers Freetown - Rogbere road and 162 kilometers Freetown - Bo road and now Bandajuma - Liberia road respectively.
The CSE Country Manager Amadou Gaye said the 103 kilometer road project including the construction of three bridges should, according to the project time line, be delivered in twenty - four months. He assured of completion of the project within the time frame.
Branch Representative of Monie Da Maa Serra Fortunato (MSF) Construction Company in charge of the 32.8 kilometer Moyamba-Junction to Moyamba Town road project, Mario Figueiredo, said the construction of the four bridges will be delivered in 24 months.
The Head of EU Delegation to Sierra Leone, Peter Versteeg also thanked President Koroma and all sectors involved in making the project a reality. He expressed the need for gender mainstreaming, and therefore encouraged CSE contractors to equally consider women during their recruitment of workers. He commended the government for its emphasis on infrastructure as a pillar in its Agenda for Prosperity and assured of EU’s continued support to Sierra Leone. The project costs 105 Million Euros.
Paramount Chief of Sowa chiefdom, Pujehun district, Chief Sowa described President Koroma as a leader with a true national character and thanked him for appointing Ambassador Dr Victor Bockarie Foh as Vice President of the country, and for the immediate construction of the bridge leading to Sowa town, which has greatly facilitated the movement of people in and out of the district.
President Launches Mega Road Projects
I would get in so much trouble there. Them naija women are ripe for the pickin
I thought that was just on paper, but it's really north korea that fronts them all their weapons designs/tech/training?
The Odum of Ala Igbo
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Read the article I posted.
Exports from Mozambique to increase with inauguration of the Nacala coal terminal
12 May 2017
The inauguration on Friday of the coal terminal at the port of Nacala-a-Velha and the railway line to transport ore mined at Moatize is expected to increase exports and even make coal the main product exported by Mozambique, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) reported recently.
According to the Mozambican press, the ceremony was attended by the President of the Republic of Mozambique, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho, the heads of the Brazilian group Vale and the state-owned Portos e Caminhos-de-Ferro de Moçambique (CFM), the two main shareholders of the Nacala Integrated Logistics Corridor.
The Moatize-Nacala railroad stretches over 900 kilometres and required an investment of US$4.1 billion, which was spent on the construction of new sections and the reconstruction of others, both in Mozambique and in the 200 kilometres in Malawi.
The railway is intended to allow the annual export of 18 million tonnes of coal and will be used by twenty trains which will drop off coal in Nacala will to be loaded onto ships.
“Moatize’s coal is well positioned internationally to supply, at a competitive cost, the markets of Asia, Europe and even Brazil,” the Vale mining group said.
The EIU recently wrote that the increase in production from the Moatize mine, from 8.7 million tonnes in 2016 to 13 million in 2017 and 18 million in 2018, would probably be enough for coal to overtake aluminium as the largest source of export revenues in Mozambique.
Exports from Mozambique to increase with inauguration of the Nacala coal terminal
12 May 2017
The inauguration on Friday of the coal terminal at the port of Nacala-a-Velha and the railway line to transport ore mined at Moatize is expected to increase exports and even make coal the main product exported by Mozambique, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) reported recently.
According to the Mozambican press, the ceremony was attended by the President of the Republic of Mozambique, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho, the heads of the Brazilian group Vale and the state-owned Portos e Caminhos-de-Ferro de Moçambique (CFM), the two main shareholders of the Nacala Integrated Logistics Corridor.
The Moatize-Nacala railroad stretches over 900 kilometres and required an investment of US$4.1 billion, which was spent on the construction of new sections and the reconstruction of others, both in Mozambique and in the 200 kilometres in Malawi.
The railway is intended to allow the annual export of 18 million tonnes of coal and will be used by twenty trains which will drop off coal in Nacala will to be loaded onto ships.
“Moatize’s coal is well positioned internationally to supply, at a competitive cost, the markets of Asia, Europe and even Brazil,” the Vale mining group said.
The EIU recently wrote that the increase in production from the Moatize mine, from 8.7 million tonnes in 2016 to 13 million in 2017 and 18 million in 2018, would probably be enough for coal to overtake aluminium as the largest source of export revenues in Mozambique.
Exports from Mozambique to increase with inauguration of the Nacala coal terminal
Cameroon Emerges as Africa Battlefield for Big Cement Makers
by Divine Ntaryike Jr
2017 M05 10 19:00 GMT-3 2017 | Updated on 2017 M05 11 09:57 GMT-3
Photographer: Getty Images
Cameroon is fast becoming a battleground for international cement makers drawn by an abundance of major infrastructure projects and the end of a monopoly long held by LafargeHolcim Ltd.
Dangote Cement Plc, Africa’s largest producer of the building material, and Morocco’s Douja Promotion Groupe Addoha SA have both announced an expansion of production capacity in the central African country this year, challenging Cimenteries du Cameroun, a unit of the world’s biggest cement maker, LafargeHolcim. Demand for cement is estimated to grow 8 percent a year by 2020 from 3 percent now, according to Trade Minister Luc-Magloire Mbarga Atangana.
“Not only is the essential building material now sufficiently available even in the remotest hinterlands, production trends are steadily sloping uphill,” Mbarga Atangana said in a May 5 interview in Yaounde, the capital. “Our country is currently under construction with major infrastructure projects including ports, dams, bridges, roads, stadiums and housing.”
The arrival in Cameroon of three foreign cement makers -- the other is Medcem, a unit of Turkey’s Eren Holding -- since the end of Cimenteries du Cameroun’s monopoly in 2012 has come alongside economic growth of 4.4 percent last year, compared with a sub-Saharan African average of 1.4 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund. Projects include the more than 300-kilometer (186 mile) dual-lane highway between Yaounde and Douala, the commercial capital, and a deep-water port in Kribi, a southern coastal town.
As the 2019 host of the Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament, Cameroon’s government is also spending heavily on stadiums. There’s also a shortage of housing, with the urbanization rate in the country at about 3.5 percent.
Annual cement production stands at 4.2 million metric tons, according to the Ministry of Trade, compared with 1.6 million tons three years ago. That’s before including planned expansion projects, the latest of which was announced by Addoha unit Ciment de l’Afrique last week.
Cimaf, as the company is known, said May 4 it plans to triple the production capacity of its factory in Douala to 1.5 million tons by 2018 to become “a key player” in Cameroon and an exporter to neighboring countries including Gabon, the Central African Republic and Chad. For its part, Cimenteries du Cameroun last year started building a third plant in the country, at Nomayos, near the capital.
Meanwhile, Lagos-based Dangote Cement has this year started construction of a $150 million plant with annual capacity of 1.5-million tons in Yaounde, part of the company’s strategy of expanding outside its home market of Nigeria.
Dangote has been growing market share in Cameroon over the past two years, Paavo Wiro, the company’s country manager, said in an interview. The producer was forced to buy 200 trucks because local truckers initially didn’t want to work with the Nigerian cement maker, he said.
“At the start of 2016, the interest from the local truckers grew again and they came to us,” Wiro said.
Cameroon Emerges as Africa Battlefield for Big Cement Makers
by Divine Ntaryike Jr
2017 M05 10 19:00 GMT-3 2017 | Updated on 2017 M05 11 09:57 GMT-3
Photographer: Getty Images
Cameroon is fast becoming a battleground for international cement makers drawn by an abundance of major infrastructure projects and the end of a monopoly long held by LafargeHolcim Ltd.
Dangote Cement Plc, Africa’s largest producer of the building material, and Morocco’s Douja Promotion Groupe Addoha SA have both announced an expansion of production capacity in the central African country this year, challenging Cimenteries du Cameroun, a unit of the world’s biggest cement maker, LafargeHolcim. Demand for cement is estimated to grow 8 percent a year by 2020 from 3 percent now, according to Trade Minister Luc-Magloire Mbarga Atangana.
“Not only is the essential building material now sufficiently available even in the remotest hinterlands, production trends are steadily sloping uphill,” Mbarga Atangana said in a May 5 interview in Yaounde, the capital. “Our country is currently under construction with major infrastructure projects including ports, dams, bridges, roads, stadiums and housing.”
The arrival in Cameroon of three foreign cement makers -- the other is Medcem, a unit of Turkey’s Eren Holding -- since the end of Cimenteries du Cameroun’s monopoly in 2012 has come alongside economic growth of 4.4 percent last year, compared with a sub-Saharan African average of 1.4 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund. Projects include the more than 300-kilometer (186 mile) dual-lane highway between Yaounde and Douala, the commercial capital, and a deep-water port in Kribi, a southern coastal town.
As the 2019 host of the Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament, Cameroon’s government is also spending heavily on stadiums. There’s also a shortage of housing, with the urbanization rate in the country at about 3.5 percent.
Annual cement production stands at 4.2 million metric tons, according to the Ministry of Trade, compared with 1.6 million tons three years ago. That’s before including planned expansion projects, the latest of which was announced by Addoha unit Ciment de l’Afrique last week.
Cimaf, as the company is known, said May 4 it plans to triple the production capacity of its factory in Douala to 1.5 million tons by 2018 to become “a key player” in Cameroon and an exporter to neighboring countries including Gabon, the Central African Republic and Chad. For its part, Cimenteries du Cameroun last year started building a third plant in the country, at Nomayos, near the capital.
Meanwhile, Lagos-based Dangote Cement has this year started construction of a $150 million plant with annual capacity of 1.5-million tons in Yaounde, part of the company’s strategy of expanding outside its home market of Nigeria.
Dangote has been growing market share in Cameroon over the past two years, Paavo Wiro, the company’s country manager, said in an interview. The producer was forced to buy 200 trucks because local truckers initially didn’t want to work with the Nigerian cement maker, he said.
“At the start of 2016, the interest from the local truckers grew again and they came to us,” Wiro said.
Cameroon Emerges as Africa Battlefield for Big Cement Makers
King
The black man is always targeted.
Even though I despise the current government in power, I honestly believe a lot of African nations should take up the model Eritrea is going by. Ever since the nation was built in 1991 it hasn't taken any handouts from other western nations and "charities". They've legit built the nation up from scratch and would be prospering if it wasn't for crippling sanctions do to some false accusations that they were funding Al Shabab in Somalia.
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I was looking into this earlier because of the contracts associated with production. This is great stuff, for many reasons.Cameroon Emerges as Africa Battlefield for Big Cement Makers
by Divine Ntaryike Jr
2017 M05 10 19:00 GMT-3 2017 | Updated on 2017 M05 11 09:57 GMT-3
Photographer: Getty Images
Cameroon is fast becoming a battleground for international cement makers drawn by an abundance of major infrastructure projects and the end of a monopoly long held by LafargeHolcim Ltd.
Dangote Cement Plc, Africa’s largest producer of the building material, and Morocco’s Douja Promotion Groupe Addoha SA have both announced an expansion of production capacity in the central African country this year, challenging Cimenteries du Cameroun, a unit of the world’s biggest cement maker, LafargeHolcim. Demand for cement is estimated to grow 8 percent a year by 2020 from 3 percent now, according to Trade Minister Luc-Magloire Mbarga Atangana.
“Not only is the essential building material now sufficiently available even in the remotest hinterlands, production trends are steadily sloping uphill,” Mbarga Atangana said in a May 5 interview in Yaounde, the capital. “Our country is currently under construction with major infrastructure projects including ports, dams, bridges, roads, stadiums and housing.”
The arrival in Cameroon of three foreign cement makers -- the other is Medcem, a unit of Turkey’s Eren Holding -- since the end of Cimenteries du Cameroun’s monopoly in 2012 has come alongside economic growth of 4.4 percent last year, compared with a sub-Saharan African average of 1.4 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund. Projects include the more than 300-kilometer (186 mile) dual-lane highway between Yaounde and Douala, the commercial capital, and a deep-water port in Kribi, a southern coastal town.
As the 2019 host of the Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament, Cameroon’s government is also spending heavily on stadiums. There’s also a shortage of housing, with the urbanization rate in the country at about 3.5 percent.
Annual cement production stands at 4.2 million metric tons, according to the Ministry of Trade, compared with 1.6 million tons three years ago. That’s before including planned expansion projects, the latest of which was announced by Addoha unit Ciment de l’Afrique last week.
Cimaf, as the company is known, said May 4 it plans to triple the production capacity of its factory in Douala to 1.5 million tons by 2018 to become “a key player” in Cameroon and an exporter to neighboring countries including Gabon, the Central African Republic and Chad. For its part, Cimenteries du Cameroun last year started building a third plant in the country, at Nomayos, near the capital.
Meanwhile, Lagos-based Dangote Cement has this year started construction of a $150 million plant with annual capacity of 1.5-million tons in Yaounde, part of the company’s strategy of expanding outside its home market of Nigeria.
Dangote has been growing market share in Cameroon over the past two years, Paavo Wiro, the company’s country manager, said in an interview. The producer was forced to buy 200 trucks because local truckers initially didn’t want to work with the Nigerian cement maker, he said.
“At the start of 2016, the interest from the local truckers grew again and they came to us,” Wiro said.
Cameroon Emerges as Africa Battlefield for Big Cement Makers
President to Launch Masvingo Highway Dualisation Project
May 17, 2017
By George Maponga
Masvingo — President Mugabe is expected to officially launch the $1 billion Beitbridge-Harare and Harare-Chirundu highways dualisation project tomorrow, in a development likely to reduce carnage along one of Zimbabwe's busiest roads. The road will also boost trade on the continent, as well as unlock value for the country.
The Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces will commission the official start of the dualisation project at a ground-breaking ceremony that will be held along the highway at Chaka business centre in Chirumhanzu.
Geiger International of Austria was contracted by Government to dualise the highway under a 25-year Build Operate and Transfer model.
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo yesterday confirmed that President Mugabe would officially launch the dualisation project tomorrow.
He said the project would be done in phases, with the one being launched tomorrow involving dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare Highway.
"It will be a big day because the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway was long overdue after having been delayed by battles, that at one, time spilled into the courts," said Dr Gumbo.
"The project will cost just under a billion at about $998 million and the contractor will tell the President the time lines for completing the project and the President will also say something during the official launch of the project."
Dr Gumbo said preliminary indications were that the project was going to be completed within three years, with work expected to resume once President Mugabe officially launched it.
"The dualisation project will be done in phases and under the first phase being launched by His Excellency at Chaka, the dualisation will be done from Beitbridge to Harare only and as for the Harare-Chirundu stretch, the nation will be notified at the appropriate time," he said.
Dr Gumbo said the dualisation project would bring economic benefits to Zimbabwe and other countries in the region.
"We are happy that the dualisation will finally start and though it may not totally end road accidents along the highway, we believe for those drivers who are careful, the number of accidents will go down," he said.
Government has already insisted that 40 percent of the dualisation project was supposed to benefit locals as part of empowering indigenous people.
Calls for Government to expedite the dualisation project got louder last month after 30 people perished at Nyamatikiti River Bridge near Chaka when a Proliner bus bound for South Africa was side-swiped by a haulage truck going in the opposite direction.
President to launch Masvingo highway dualisation project
May 17, 2017
By George Maponga
Masvingo — President Mugabe is expected to officially launch the $1 billion Beitbridge-Harare and Harare-Chirundu highways dualisation project tomorrow, in a development likely to reduce carnage along one of Zimbabwe's busiest roads. The road will also boost trade on the continent, as well as unlock value for the country.
The Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces will commission the official start of the dualisation project at a ground-breaking ceremony that will be held along the highway at Chaka business centre in Chirumhanzu.
Geiger International of Austria was contracted by Government to dualise the highway under a 25-year Build Operate and Transfer model.
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo yesterday confirmed that President Mugabe would officially launch the dualisation project tomorrow.
He said the project would be done in phases, with the one being launched tomorrow involving dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare Highway.
"It will be a big day because the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway was long overdue after having been delayed by battles, that at one, time spilled into the courts," said Dr Gumbo.
"The project will cost just under a billion at about $998 million and the contractor will tell the President the time lines for completing the project and the President will also say something during the official launch of the project."
Dr Gumbo said preliminary indications were that the project was going to be completed within three years, with work expected to resume once President Mugabe officially launched it.
"The dualisation project will be done in phases and under the first phase being launched by His Excellency at Chaka, the dualisation will be done from Beitbridge to Harare only and as for the Harare-Chirundu stretch, the nation will be notified at the appropriate time," he said.
Dr Gumbo said the dualisation project would bring economic benefits to Zimbabwe and other countries in the region.
"We are happy that the dualisation will finally start and though it may not totally end road accidents along the highway, we believe for those drivers who are careful, the number of accidents will go down," he said.
Government has already insisted that 40 percent of the dualisation project was supposed to benefit locals as part of empowering indigenous people.
Calls for Government to expedite the dualisation project got louder last month after 30 people perished at Nyamatikiti River Bridge near Chaka when a Proliner bus bound for South Africa was side-swiped by a haulage truck going in the opposite direction.
President to launch Masvingo highway dualisation project
