SADC transport conference to move heavy freight off the road and onto the rail

Regional transport stakeholders  are meeting in Midrand later this month to work on strategies including moving heavy freight off the over-burdened roads and get governments to spend more on maintaining and expanding  increasingly efficient railways. Their meeting’s designed to formulate strategies to meet the challenges including depressed economies and create business opportunities for suppliers and […]

Sierra Leone’s forgiven countries that shunned it during the Ebola outbreak

Sierra Leone’s vice president says his country doesn’t bear any grudges against countries that closed their borders against his compatriots when the Ebola virus ravaged West Africa last year. Addressing the Pan African Parliament in Midrand, Victor Bockarie Foh says beating the deadly virus shows the need for an African rapid reaction medical presence. ends […]