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1,800 Heavy Trucks Handed Over in Ghana and Zambia at a Single Conference, With Local Assembly, Bank Finance and a Parts Warehouse Attached
At its Africa partners conference in Port Elizabeth on 29 October, BAIC FOTON closed the event by handing over 1,000 heavy trucks to customers in Ghana and 800 to customers in Zambia, and signed six local-assembly agreements with partners in Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe — one ceremony in which the vehicles, the factory, the finance and the spare-parts stock all moved together.
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The Gambia Signs an Integrated Waste Concession With Zoomlion, Bundling Collection Trucks, Transfer Stations and an MBT Plant Under One Operator
At the State House in Banjul on 28 October, The Gambia signed a concession agreement with Zoomlion Ghana Limited that hands one private operator an integrated waste chain: a mechanical biological treatment plant, transfer stations, and the municipal solid waste collection and transport services that connect them. For truck suppliers, the deal is a reminder that in much of Africa the waste fleet is bought by operators running decade-scale contracts — not by one-off municipal tenders.
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Kenya Unloads 154 Machines in One Vessel Call as a US$16–17 Billion Megaproject Moves From Groundbreaking to Hardware
The Port of Lamu discharged 154 units of heavy construction machinery weighing 8,213 metric tonnes on 21 October — the second equipment shipment for the Dangote East Africa Refinery in under a month — and the Kenya Ports Authority says more vessels are already scheduled as the US$16–17 billion project enters a roughly 40-month construction phase.
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Cameroon's Hysacam Has Over 100 New Garbage Trucks Loaded for Shipment in a 305-Unit Fleet Renewal
More than 100 garbage trucks have been loaded for shipment to Cameroon under a procurement programme covering 305 vehicles, Hysacam — the company that collects household waste in Douala and Yaoundé — announced on 14 October 2026. The capital is to receive an initial batch of 30 trucks to reinforce the 90 vehicles already on its collection rounds, in a renewal that stretches back to an October 2025 order for 300 trucks and that, according to a Chinese manufacturer's own statement, includes a signed contract for more than 300 specialized waste collection trucks with a Chinese supplier. For exporters of refuse trucks, Central Africa's largest municipal waste operator is renewing its fleet in large, phased tranches — and the money question behind it is as instructive as the trucks themselves.
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Tanzanian Agritech East Africa Foods Raises US$40m, With Cold Storage and Trucks at the Top of the Shopping List
East Africa Foods, a Tanzanian agritech company that links more than 28,000 smallholder farmers to over 10,000 urban retailers across Tanzania and Kenya, has raised about US$40 million to expand its supply chain infrastructure in East Africa. The package combines US$26 million in Series B equity, led by PIDG's InfraCo alongside Oikocredit and FMO, with US$14 million in debt from the Schmidt Family Foundation — and the company names outright what the money will buy: cold storage and trucks, as it pushes into Kenya.
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Zimbabwe Scraps the 25% Import Duty on Electric Trucks Above 5 Tonnes, Backdated to March 2026
Zimbabwe has zero-rated import duty on goods vehicles above 5 tonnes gross vehicle weight that are powered only by an electric motor, cutting the rate from 25 per cent to 0 per cent. The change sits in Statutory Instrument 159 of 2026, the Customs and Excise (Tariff) (Amendment) Notice, 2026 (No. 16), published in the Government Gazette on 16 October 2026 by the Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion, and is deemed to have taken effect on 2 March 2026 — so qualifying trucks cleared since that date fall inside the exemption.
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Ghana Makes Vehicle Towing Compulsory From January 2027 to Clear Broken-Down Trucks Off Highways
Ghana's National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) will introduce a compulsory vehicle towing policy in January 2027, under which vehicle owners must either subscribe to a private towing service or hold an insurance policy that includes towing cover. The requirement is written into the updated Road Traffic Regulations, 2026 (L.I 2519) and the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Act 1153). The authority is also developing a mobile application that will register towing operators so that a driver whose vehicle fails on the road can summon the nearest available recovery vehicle.
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Rwanda Cold-Chain Operator Secures Up to US$18m for New Kigali Cold-Storage Facility
Cold Solutions Rwanda, the Rwandan operating platform of the ARCH Cold Chain Solutions East Africa Fund, has reached financial close on a senior debt facility of up to US$18 million from the Africa Go Green Fund, a climate-focused vehicle managed by Cygnum Capital. The financing covers construction and working capital for a new temperature-controlled facility in Kigali's Prime Economic Zone, starting at 4,000 pallet positions with scope to expand to 8,000.
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Cameroon Opens Bidding for 167 km Yaoundé–Edéa Reconstruction on World Bank Corridor Programme
Cameroon's Ministry of Public Works issued a Specific Procurement Notice on 8 October 2026 inviting sealed technical and financial bids for the reconstruction of the 167-kilometre Yaoundé–Edéa section of National Road No. 3, to be delivered in three concurrent lots under Phase 1 of the World Bank-financed Douala–Bangui Economic Corridor Improvement Programme. Bids close on 24 November 2026.
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Kinshasa Tramway Cost Put at US$9bn as Terms Stay Open
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has put the cost of Kinshasa's planned tramway network at US$9 billion, according to an estimate presented by Infrastructure Minister John Banza Lunda at a meeting in Brussels on 24 September 2026. Financing terms remain under negotiation.
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Kenya Reviews KES 8.3bn Mombasa Port Access Road
The Kenya Ports Authority is under parliamentary scrutiny over its KES 8.344 billion project to build a 1.8-kilometre dual carriageway, including a 704-metre elevated viaduct, to ease container traffic around the Port of Mombasa.
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Johannesburg landfills near capacity as waste surges
More than 90% of Africa's waste is dumped in uncontrolled sites, and waste volumes in sub-Saharan Africa are projected to grow 124% by 2050, an Associated Press report said on 18 September 2026, citing UNEP and World Bank figures. In Johannesburg, only two of the city's four landfills still accept waste, and together they hold less than one year of remaining capacity, according to South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
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Egypt Opens EBRD-Backed Waste Transfer Stations
Egypt has opened two municipal waste transfer stations in the Nile Delta with a combined design capacity of 600 tonnes per day, the first assets completed under the solid-waste component of the Kitchener Drain Depollution Project, which is financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union.
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Rwanda Re-tenders AfDB-Backed Rubavu Waste Treatment Plant
Rwanda's water and sanitation utility WASAC Development Ltd has re-issued the tender for a faecal sludge treatment plant and landfill in Rubavu Town after terminating the previous contract over poor performance. The Rwf 4.1 billion facility forms part of the Rwanda Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Programme, financed by the African Development Bank, and bids close on 27 October 2026.
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South Africa Signs US$1bn Municipal Infrastructure Loan
South Africa's National Treasury and the New Development Bank have signed a US$1 billion loan to upgrade infrastructure for metropolitan municipal services, with solid waste management, water and sanitation named among the priority sectors.
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