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Conakry sour

Guinea has joined the ranks of resource-rich, poverty stricken countries that are seeking to maximise the rent from rising commodities prices by revising contracts. The flavour of the debate is highly tinged by Conakry’s sour politics – with Prime Minister Lansana Kouyaté’s efforts to review oil and mining contracts with foreign partners like Hyperdynamics, RusAl, Alcoa and Rio Tinto meeting resistance from regime barons close to ailing President Lansana Conté.
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SA ESI boom

The number of new, plus revised and renamed schemes on African Energy’s latest South Africa power projects update, shows that even without new regional schemes to supply SA, Eskom and the government are taking action to tackle a crisis whose approach was, for so long, all but denied. As well as Eskom’s focus on big new coal-fired schemes, it shows a substantial upturn in plans to develop nuclear and renewables, with privately-led schemes also on the rise.
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Kaberuka sees further growth in AfDB

Following on from its recent commitment to grant $58m for the rehabilitation of the Inga I and II hydro plants, the African Development Bank Group is looking to further expand its energy sector operations and is also preparing a major climate change initiative, officials in Tunis told African Energy.
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