Several high-profile government figures have been dismissed over a new power sector corruption scandal set to overshadow the contest for the leadership of incumbent party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) and ensure corruption remains top of the agenda...
Impressive reserves announcements have fuelled speculation about an East African gas boom based on the Rovuma Basin offshore Mozambique and Tanzania, and projections of Asian demand and prices. However, how far Africa’s east coast will go in...
Nigeria enters the new year facing daunting challenges: the security situation in the Boko Haram-blighted north-east shows no signs of improvement, Niger Delta issues remain unresolved, and a global oil crash has undermined government budgets...
The willingness of the opposing sides in Libya’s renewed civil conflict to attack economic assets has put the nation’s electric power generation capacity under renewed stress. Parts of eastern Libya were without power for at least six consecutive...
As President Paul Kagame seeks a controversial third term, citing his record of developing Rwanda, his government can point to considerable success in installing new generation capacity. This is essential to accelerate energy access, which has...
According to the latest lifting programme, published by the South Sudan Ministry of Petroleum in early December, a total of 4.6m barrels will be lifted from Port Sudan in January, equivalent to average production of 148,000 b/d. This compares...
Whoever wins the second round of the closely fought presidential election on 21 December, Tunisia will become the only country to have emerged from the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings with a fully functioning democracy. The country will set a further...
Moroccan state oil company Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (Onhym) plans to acquire seismic onshore in the disputed territory of Western Sahara next year. A senior Onhym official told African Energy the company planned to acquire...
The cabinet has announced a five-point plan to tackle the deepening power crisis, but critics say the measures are not as decisive as South Africans faced with rolling blackouts might have hoped.On 11 December, the government announced that a “...
While preparations for the Grand Inga project make slow progress, the existing infrastructure at the Inga site is under growing pressure. A senior engineer working at the site told African Energy that because of outages, four of the six turbines...
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