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The Addis Ababa City Administration says 496,971 homes were built and handed over to residents over the past five years, with a further 4,200 transferred in the first quarter of the current fiscal year.
After 16 years of planning, the R5bn Leratong City development in Kagiso is opening its first stage on 29 October, anchoring a regional mall, a 3,000-person entertainment precinct, a private hospital and a planned 15,000 homes.
The High Court has stopped Shanta Gold from entering, prospecting or drilling on private land in three Siaya sublocations without the express consent of registered owners, and blocked a mining licence for the Ramula Mboma project until consent is documented.
The Nigerian Army says ongoing works at the 7 Division Cantonment in Maiduguri will provide accommodation for more than 4,000 families once completed, alongside a 50-bed hospital ward and a new divisional headquarters complex.
A new World Bank report projects that Sub-Saharan Africa will add 748 million urban residents between 2025 and 2050 and warns that the gains will depend on infrastructure, affordable housing, land management and city financing.
Egyptian commercial developer Everest Properties will build two new office developments, Bureau 59 and Bureau 57, in the Fourth Sector of City Center, New Cairo, with combined investments exceeding EGP 10 billion across 38,000 square metres.
FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has approved offers of statutory rights of occupancy covering about 55.35 hectares in Dakwa, Wuye and the Central Area to Promiseland Building and Construction Limited, as residents of Dakwa and neighbouring communities threaten to resist any demolition.
Ghana’s Environmental Protection Authority has ordered Empire Cement Ghana Limited to submit a relocation plan for its grinding and bagging plant at the Densu Delta Ramsar Site within 30 days, saying a September closure notice remains in force.
Afrirent Holdings and co-developer Lance Chalwin-Milton now plan to invest about R2.5 billion in a 35-storey mixed-use tower beside the Cape Town International Convention Centre, almost double the R1 billion to R1.3 billion flagged when the site lease was secured in 2024.