Transport

For a number of weeks, cities within the jap DRC have been shaken by demonstrations in opposition to armed violence. Beni, Kasindi and Butembo are probably the most affected. Along with the demonstrations, since April 5, actions have slowed down. The most important shops are struggling to open. This is very the case in Butembo, the biggest purchasing mall within the area.…

Driving license inspectors are all suspended from Monday 26 April. The decision comes from the Ministry of Transport, which wants to improve the process for obtaining the permit. Meanwhile, it is the gendarmes who send the exams to the candidates. The sector is experiencing many dysfunctions linked to fraud and corruption, while the country is facing a worrying number of victims of traffic accidents.…

Gas stations have finally resumed little by little in Dakar after a severe fuel shortage at the beginning of the weekend. A strike by the oil carriers was the origin. The strike was eventually called off, while negotiations between union members and employers were resumed under the leadership of the ministries concerned. At the beginning of this strike: employers' refusal to sign new agreements with…

Divers inspected the underside of a colossal container ship that had blocked the Suez Canal and discovered some damage to the bow but not severe enough to ground the ship, officials said on Wednesday. The dives were part of an ongoing investigation into what caused the grounding of Ever Given, now anchored in Great Bitter Lake, a wide stretch of water halfway between the northern and southern ends of the canal. Salvage teams finally managed to free the ship with a skyscraper size on Monday afternoon.…

Experts on Tuesday boarded a colossal cargo ships that had been stuck in the Suez Canal for almost a week before being released when questions swirled about the ground that had shaken the global shipping industry and blocked one of the world's most important waterways. The Ever Given was anchored in Great Bitter Lake, a wide stretch of water halfway between the north and south ends of the canal, after rescue teams finally managed to release the skyscraper on Monday afternoon. The ship, stuck sideways in a narrow…

Carriages and horse-drawn carriages are still widely used in rural Senegal, but also in urban areas, for the transport of goods. The government will resume the application of an inter-ministerial decree from the end of 2016, but which has never been implemented. It prescribes "technical visits" for carriages and horse-drawn carriages or even "health visits" for horses.…

Maritime traffic through the Suez Canal in Egypt resumed on Monday after a giant container ship that had blocked the busy waterway for almost a week returned, the canal authority said. 400 meters (430 yards) Ever Given got stuck diagonally across a southern part of the canal in strong winds at the beginning of last Tuesday and stopped traffic on the shortest shipping between Europe and Asia. "She is free," an official involved in the rescue operation was quoted as saying by Reuters. After the dredging…

Highway number 4 is an important axis for the delivery of Goma, and trucks rotate there all day. The mayor of the city of Goma specifies that the accident was due to a failure of the braking system. There was a horrific accident caused by a truck with the brakes failing. The road is not dangerous. It was the truck that had broken down. Timothée Mwissa Kiense, Mayor of Goma. .

In Chinguetti, Mauritania, an exhibition of photographs returns to the routes of African caravans. These camel rides have crossed the centuries as much as the deserts! Freight convoys are now being replaced by trucks. But an unexpected phenomenon, or rather an unexpected wealth, could well give them another life: the gold mines!…

Third day of consciousness marketing campaign towards coronavirus pandemic within the public transport sector. The Ministry of Transport, which manages the operation, has invited drivers to require customers to put on masks earlier than boarding their autos. as reported from Nouakchott, Salem Mejbour SalemThe directions from…