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Airports authority has mixed feelings over Kinshasa airport project

The airport of N'Djili (DRC). © Arsene Mpiana/AFP

Now that the runway at Kinshasa's N'Djili airport has been upgraded, attention is turning to the facility's new terminal, still a long way from completion three years after construction began. [...]

Published on 29/09/2021 at 06:00 GMT

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DRC
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Felix Tshisekedi
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Qatar Airways Group fine-tunes its plans for Congolese airports

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Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi (left) during a meeting with Mike Pompeo, the Trump administration's Secretary of State in Washington, on 3 March 2020.

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In the midst of reviewing its deals with Beijing, Kinshasa launches probe into China's N'Djili airport contracts

A new anticorruption watchdog is digging into the details of a Kabila-era deal that tasked Chinese firms Sinohydro and WIETC with renovating N'Djili airport.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 11.05.2021

RVA awarded the runway contract to Chinese infrastructure giant Sinohydro for a little under $65m in 2012.

DRC
Turkey's Summa keen for business in Kinshasa

The Turkish group Summa is in talks with the Congolese authorities over an opportunity to take over the N'Djili international airport upgrades in what would be its first move in the country.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 22.01.2021

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Airports spark intense international rivalries

At a time when many African capitals are constructing new airports to ease congestion around urban centres, such projects are giving rise to intense rivalry between new and established powers on the continent, all against a backdrop of growing sub-regional [.

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Extension of Diori-Hamani airport in Niamey, built and run by Turkish group Summa.

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