Nairobi County, Kenya
I am a freelance journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya with a wide experience in covering of Africa’s construction, energy, water and environment sectors among others. For more than 15 years I have covered various beats for national newspapers in Kenya and lately took up freelancing fully with some of the news and feature articles have appeared in various construction magazines including Engineering News Record, World Highways, Aggregates Business International, Cement World, Bridge Design and Engineering among others.
East Africa's urbanisation, population and industrialisation are expected to increase steadily as the region's economies expand in the medium term. These changes will create bigger market for lubricants as well as demand for sustainable systems to recycle an anticipated rise in lubricants waste.
Zambia's energy demand by the cement, chemical, beverage and coal industries is on the increase. The new plant by Singapore's Nava Bharat will process raw coal into cleaner-burning coal to meet the rising energy demand.
Nigeria and Angola, two of Africa’s hydrocarbon industry giants, are poised to dominate the continent’s offshore oil and gas paints and coatings market in the short- and medium-term on the back of ambitious upstream and downstream projects already underway or in the pipeline.
Tolling technology is now at an advanced state but governments have a key role in ensuring the success of schemes as is evident in Africa.
East Africa’s ambitious road expansion programme is seeing the network expand significantly
In Africa today more than 350 million people lack access to clean water, leaving them at risk of deadly diseases. At the same time, many parts of the continent are “energy poor” — electricity service is either intermittent or non-existent. Now, some development agencies are trying to kill two birds with one stone by using solar energy to run well systems.
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