Botswana has signed a 30-year PPA for a 500MW solar plant with 500MWh storage in Maun, partnering with Oman, toward 50% renewables by 2030. Inside the deal.
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Cheetah Cement to Build 800kt/y Plant, Creating 515 Jobs
Cheetah Cement is building an 800,000 t/y dry-process plant near Matabele, Kgatleng, using Morupule fly ash and Matsiloje slag and creating ~515 jobs in
Concrete Proof: Namibian Firms Take On the Tumas Process Plant
A uranium plant lives on foundations, thickeners and a retaining wall – the works that decide whether it stands.
SBC House at Union Vale: A Broadcasting Grant That Took Six Years
A China-funded broadcasting headquarters for Seychelles broke ground in 2019 and handed over in 2025. The long road from grant to keys is the real infrastructure story.
Freeway to Data Centre: The Concrete Behind Namibia’s China Agreements
Diplomacy signs the deals; contractors pour the projects. Namibia’s China relationship is written in roads, plants and stations.
Schools You Can See: China’s Visible but Underwritten Education Build in Africa
China has funded more than 170 schools across Africa. The visible buildings raise a quieter question of who pays the teachers and bills after handover.
Surgical Wings and Lab Benches: China’s Health-System Build-Out in Africa
A fresh roster of Chinese-built hospitals and diagnostic centres reads as system-strengthening. Whether national budgets can run them is the unwritten clause.
Clinics and Classrooms: China’s Twin-Track Health Story in Africa
China’s foreign ministry counts decades of medical teams and tens of thousands trained. The harder question is what stays once the visiting doctors fly home.
Africa CDC’s Headquarters: A China-Built Home for a Sovereignty Question
Africa’s disease-control agency got a continental headquarters built and paid for by China. The building is a gift; the autonomy it houses is the harder thing.