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President Sahilework Zewdie said infrastructure gap in Africa has remained the top most challenge toward bringing about sustainable economic growth and social progress across the continent.
The president made the remark on 08th Nov. 2022 while opening the 6th African Engineering Conference and 8th Edition of African Engineering Week here in Addis Ababa at Science and Technology museum.
Africa, as continent of huge infrastructure deficit, has a number of priority areas to be addressed toward ensuring sustainable development, but the issue of expanding the necessary infrastructure remained the top most priority, the president underscored.
Her Excellency Sahlework Zewdie said experts in all fields shall have conversations of such a kind and exchange experiences in order to solve problems and thereby ensure the kind of Africa we want.
Addressing the conference President of Ethiopian Association of Civil Engineers, Eng. Yonas Ayalew said since every development endeavor is linked with availability of basic structure needs of the society, researchers, contribution to excel existing knowledge and creating news ways of doing things has a paramount importance.
He said Africa’s shortcoming in the area of infrastructure development shall be resolved through full-fledged and coordinated and coordinated efforts of all concerned bodies engaged in the sector.
The conference, which is organized by the Ethiopian Association of Civil Engineers(EACE) in collaboration with Federation of African Engineering Organization (FAEO) and World Federation of Engineering Organization (WFEO) under the theme “Accelerating Sustainable Infrastructure Development in Africa Together”, is expected to dwell on various issues related to engineering and construction endeavors in the coming three days.
