Gabon has written to United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon rejecting part of Angola’s December 2013 submission to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS). The northern maritime limit separating Angola’s territorial...
Faced with likely delays connecting some renewables projects to the grid, South Africa’s Department of Energy (DoE) has issued a request for coal baseload independent power producers (IPPs) to register their projects by 25 July. A previous...
Crude oil exports are expected to resume within weeks following a deal between rebel federalists and the caretaker central government which allowed the lifting of force majeure at the Ras Lanuf and Sidra terminals on 6 July. Details of any...
A suspension of supply by bulk distribution companies in protest over unpaid government debt caused severe fuel shortages in late June. The crisis took almost two weeks to resolve in the south, particularly in Accra, where shortages were...
In a strange twist of events, former Riyadh governor Prince Khalid Bin Bandar Bin Abdelaziz was removed from his new post as deputy defence minister on 28 June, only to be appointed to the head of the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) three...
In Kuwait’s stuttering projects market, for every step forward, there seem always to be two steps back. Reports in mid-June that the country’s major new airport project was being put on hold after companies bidding for the construction contracts...
After yet another period of absence from the public eye, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Bin Abdelaziz reappeared aboard King Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz’s plane on 20 June, where he took part in a meeting between the king and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah...
Boardroom reshuffles at Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP) suggest that what is good for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is not necessarily what is also most favoured by international investors on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (...
Launched by President Barack Obama in Cape Town one year ago, the US Power Africa initiative has been making bold claims about its early successes in a campaign to boost sub-Saharan Africa’s installed generation capacity by some 10GW and connect...
The blame game began within hours of Sunni extremists taking Mosul. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki blamed members of the army for deserting, saying the seizure of the city was a “conspiracy”. Saudi Arabia blamed Iranian-backed Maliki, with...
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