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Stay up to date with the latest Africa and Middle East updates from the global road traffic industryDubai launches Sheikh Khalifa highway
The UAE Ministry of Public Works has opened the new Sheikh Khalifa highway, connecting Dubai to the central region of the UAE and...
Ethiopia seeks African Development Bank loan
The Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) is looking at a $650m loan from the African Development Bank to improve the...
Oman earmarks funds for roads
Oman has allocated OMR314.9 ($817.9m) for road projects in the state budget for...
Speed cameras reduced road fatalities in Qatar, study reveals
Qatar has seen a significant decrease in the number of fatal road traffic accidents after rolling out speed cameras in 2007, according to a report by the Weill Cornell Medical College...
Balfour Beatty secures Qatar road contract
Balfour Beatty's professional services division has secured a programme management consultancy contract worth £5bn on a roads and drainage scheme in...
Sinohydro completes Ethiopian road project
China-based Sinohydro has completed the $57.2m project of upgrading the Assela-Dodola section of road, 220km south of Ethiopia's capital, Addis...
Oman awards five road projects
Oman’s Transport and Communications Ministry has awarded five road projects worth OMR264m ($676.5m) in a bid to improve road...
Exim Bank of China funds Kenyan road project
Exim Bank of China has extended its KES16.9bn ($184m) loan to Kenya to finance construction of the southern by-pass road project, which will complete the loop of three bypasses easing traffic...
Abu Dhabi plans to upgrade road traffic technology
UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, is planning to invest $100m to upgrade transport and traffic technologies in the...
Dubai to open Sheikh Khalifa Expressway in December
The UAE is planning to open the Shaikh Khalifa Expressway by December 2011, built at a cost of AED2bn ($544m) and stretching from Fujairah to...
Ghana secures funding for Eastern Corridor road projects
The Government of Ghana has secured donor funding of $1.5bn for the construction of Eastern Corridor road...
Ethiopia and Kenya sign a deal to construct Nairobi-Moyale-Addis Ababa road
Ethiopia and Kenya have signed a $700m agreement to build a 800km Nairobi-Moyale-Addis Ababa road, which will link the two...
AfDB funds Ethiopian road project
African Development Bank (AfDB) has extended $66.7m loan to Ethiopia to upgrade a 112km Bedele-Metu road corridor...
Strabag to build Kigali-Gatuna Highway in Rwanda
Germany-based Strabag International will build the RWF32bn ($52m) Kigali-Gatuna highway in...
Alliance to develop smart gates for highways in UAE
Abu Dhabi-based Intelligent Transport Solution provider (ITS) Alliance has signed an agreement with Advanced Interactive Media Solutions (AIMS) and digital signage solution provider SCALA...
Most road accidents in India are driver's fault, says report
Drivers are responsible for 78% of the accidents that happened during 2009 in India, according to a report released by the Transport Research Wing of the Ministry of Road Transport and...
STRABAG wins Duqm port road contract in Oman
STRABAG Oman, a unit of STRABAG Group, has won a €150m contract from the Ministry of Transport and Communication of the Sultanate of Oman to build roads and infrastructure at Duqm port in...
AfDB funds road project in Ethiopia
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has allocated a grant worth $125m to finance the second phase of construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Addis road in...
Protea Parkways Consortium wins Winelands toll highway project in South Africa
The South African National roads agency SOC (SANRAL) has selected Protea Parkways Consortium (PPC) as the preferred bidder for the Z10bn ($1.27bn) N1-N2 Winelands toll highway project, which...
BAM-Per Aarsleff JV wins extension of Tanzanian highway contract
A joint venture between BAM International and Danish firm Per Aarsleff has won an extension to its €38.5m Tanzanian road...
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