Nigeria’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport will close at the end of the day Wednesday, and remain under repair for at least six weeks. The planned reopening is on April 19. Failed portions of the runway at the Abuja airport, which had become too damaged to safely navigate, will be fixed…
As Cameroon marked a national day of mourning on Monday, the death toll following Friday’s CamRail train derailment rose to at least 80 people. Transport Minister Edgar Mebe’Ngo’o told local media outlets that the fatalities are expected to rise again, given critical injuries in some of the 600-plus people who…
Test runs of the new railway linking Addis Ababa and Djibouti may come as early as next week, now that the $345 million project, funded primarily by China, is near completion. Officials with Ethiopian Railway Corporation say trial service will run for three to six months on the line, beginning…