Less than a week after the death of his half-brother Abdullah (GSN 985, special issue), Saudi Arabia’s new king, Salman Bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud, announced generous handouts to citizens and made sweeping changes to the apparatus and personnel of...
Prime minister-designate Habib Essid initiated fresh consultations with political parties on 27 January after initial soundings suggested the Assemblée des Représentants du Peuple (ARP) would not approve his proposed cabinet. Given the now well-...
The National Power Authority (NPA) has been replaced by the Electricity Generation and Transmission Company and the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA) with effect from 1 January in an unbundling aimed at encouraging private...
Saudi Arabia’s Acwa Power and Spanish partner Sener Grupo de Ingeniería have won the main engineering, procurement and construction, and operation and maintenance contracts for the second phase of the Ouarzazate solar complex. Moroccan Solar...
Afren’s share price has tumbled following the discovery of unauthorised payments to senior executives, followed by a reserves downgrade at its Barda Rash field in Iraqi Kurdistan. The company had a cash balance of $235m at 31 December 2014, but...
A popular protest movement against state energy giant Sonatrach’s pilot unconventional gas project in the Ahnet Basin has challenged the leadership in Algiers and generated headlines suggesting that Algeria’s nascent shale development might be...
US strategic consultancy Détente Group has signed agreements with the Ethiopian government to manage development of the country’s wind energy potential with support from President Barack Obama’s Power Africa Initiative. Détente managing partner...
The Independent Power Tanzania Limited (IPTL) scandal has claimed another victim with the resignation of energy and minerals minister Sospeter Muhongo, the third cabinet minister to go since the latest round of allegations emerged late last year...
Wide-ranging reform of Angola’s power sector is making progress, but with the economy heavily dependent on oil revenues, investment plans could be significantly slowed. Angola-watchers suggest the effects on the domestic economy of sharply lower...
Ruling Patriotic Front (PF) candidate Edgar Lungu has won the 20 January presidential election that followed the death of former leader Michael Sata. On a turnout of just 32%, Lungu narrowly beat rival Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for...
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