PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Tanzania's $2.33 Billion SGR Financing Will Be Repaid by Freight Demand That Does Not Yet Exist

Tanzania has closed a USD 2.33 billion financing facility to advance two sections of its Standard Ga...

Apr 30 13 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Dar es Salaam Is Adding 500,000 People a Year and Running Out of Water at the Same Time. The Kidunda Dam Is the Missing Piece.

Dar es Salaam's water supply is drawn more than 90 percent from the Ruvu River system, which experie...

Apr 10 15 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Air Tanzania Grew from One Plane to Sixteen in a Decade. The Real Story Is What It Is Building Toward.

East Africa recorded a 24.3 percent jump in departure seats to 46.5 million in 2026, outpacing every...

Mar 31 14 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Kenya and Uganda Did Not Fail at BRT. They Failed at Governance.

Dar es Salaam’s BRT reveals a hard economic truth for East Africa. Mass transit does not fail beca...

Feb 9 5 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Zanzibar Is Building a USD 300 Million Deep-Water Port on Its Northern Coast. The Shipping Capacity Is Not the Story. The Economic Model It Is Designed to Replace Is.

Zanzibar has spent decades building one of the most recognisable tourism brands in the Indian Ocean....

Apr 20 13 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

A 50kg Bag of Cement Costs More Than Twice the Nairobi Price in Mandera. That Price Gap Is What Kenya's Road Master Plan Is Actually Trying to Close.

On March 24, 2026, the Kenya National Highways Authority invited consulting firms to submit expressi...

Apr 18 10 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Kenya's Nairobi-Mombasa Expressway Serves Five Landlocked Economies. That Is Why the USD 3.6 Billion PPP Structure Matters More Than the Road.

Kenya's USD 3.6 billion Nairobi-Mombasa Expressway, formally signed between the Kenya National Highw...

Apr 18 10 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Uganda Built a Modern Expressway Before the Economy Was Ready for It. That May Have Been Exactly the Right Decision.

The Kampala-Entebbe Expressway cost approximately USD 476 million, financed through an Export-Import...

Apr 10 14 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Konza Technopolis Has Been Building for Fifteen Years. The Most Honest Assessment of Where It Stands Is in the Numbers Nobody Is Quoting.

Kenya's Konza Technopolis has received more architectural renders, ministerial speeches, and Silicon...

Apr 10 11 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Kigali's Traffic Problem Is Not a Transport Problem. It Is a Productivity Tax. The Sonatubes and Gishushu Interventions Are the Correct Diagnosis.

Kigali is the most efficiently governed city in East Africa by most institutional quality metrics. I...

Apr 10 6 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Kigali Innovation City Broke Ground in September 2024. The More Important Question Is Whether It Can Break the Dependency on Tea and Coffee.

Rwanda's economic model has been one of the most deliberately designed in Africa. Following the 1994...

Apr 10 7 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

East Africa Is No Longer Running Out of Power. It Is Running a Power System That Was Not Designed for the Economy It Is Trying to Build.

Tanzania added 2,115 megawatts of hydropower generation capacity through the Julius Nyerere Hydropow...

Apr 6 15 min