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The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria has presented allocation letters for homes in Abuja, Kano and Lagos to at least 430 employees of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, with 197 mortgage applications worth about N8.3 billion being packaged.
About 200 residents and activists marched along the Sea Point promenade on Heritage Day against the City of Cape Town's R115-million N2 Edge wall safety project, which they say will separate communities rather than cut crime.
Suriname's ambassador to Ghana has performed a groundbreaking ceremony for a 20-acre city development at Appiahkrom in the Dormaa Traditional Area, part of efforts to reunite the Ansu families of Suriname and Dormaa-Ahenkro.
Tanzania has directed that construction activity expanding plots or creating land along Lake Victoria shores undergo environmental assessment before proceeding, as authorities prepare for El Nino rains.
AceRoyal Estates has launched Villa Nova, a 1,000-home master-planned community in Abijo, Lagos, backed by Lagos State land-title assurance and structured mortgages from Nova Bank.
Tanzania's population is projected to reach about 120 million by 2050, driving demand for housing, transport, commercial buildings and public infrastructure, Lands and Housing Minister Leonard Akwilapo said.
Adds Developments has entered Egypt's real estate development market with a 220-feddan land bank, starting in East Cairo, the company's chairperson Abdullah Sohail said.
Local Government Minister Mahama Ayariga says the government is working on a new financing framework, including pre-renting market spaces, after an Italian export credit facility was cancelled.
Housing Principal Secretary Charles Hinga says the government will build homes under its affordable housing programme aimed at the ageing parents of Kenyans living abroad.