Cameroon Paid for Roads That Are Still Unfinished
Three Cameroonian road contracts with Egypt's Arab Contractors are years late. The ministry has paid most of the invoices and...
August 24, 2026Topic
construction
Chinese Builders Are on Every Package of Ethiopia’s New Airport
The Bishoftu airport shortlist puts ten Chinese contractors across all four packages of a US$12.5bn first phase, with one US...
August 21, 2026
Nigeria Cement Prices Probed as Regulator Summons the Biggest Producers
Nigeria cement prices rose from about US$7 a bag in January to as much as US$11 by July. The FCCPC...
August 20, 2026
Chile Reworks Prison Concessions to Unlock US$2.65 Billion in Works
Chile is overhauling its prison-concession model to accelerate an estimated US$2.65 billion in new facilities, adding over 15,000 places by...
July 29, 2026
Cemex Posts a Record Quarter as Its New CEO’s Cost Cuts Bite
Cemex earnings hit a record with Q1 EBITDA of $794 million, up 34%, and margins at 19.8%. Four straight beats,...
July 17, 2026
Panama’s New Bank Credit Falls 7% as Housing Finance Dries Up
New bank lending in Panama fell about 7% in early 2026, with construction and housing finance hit hardest, a warning...
July 14, 2026
Egypt’s Builder Hassan Allam Eyes Gulf and Cairo Listings for Its Units
Hassan Allam is weighing Gulf and Cairo listings for real-estate and infrastructure units, opening a funding channel while the parent...
July 13, 2026
Colombia Has Lost 425 Homebuilders in Four Years
Camacol says 425 homebuilding firms have vanished since 2022, a 28% drop to 1,093. What the Colombia housing market loss...
July 10, 2026
Brazil’s Federal Police operations against slave labor up 470% in 2021
Data compiled by the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety last week, on National Day to Combat Slave Labor, show...
January 31, 2022