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Zambia’s Zesco seeks to renegotiate power tariffs with IPPs
State power utility Zesco is seeking to renegotiate its power purchase agreements with independent power producers (IPPs) in an effort to curb its ballooning debt. At end-April 2019, Zesco owed IPPs about $680m, and the company says low power tariffs mean it has little hope...
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Zambia
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Escalating conflict drives new attempts to sell eastern oil
Almost a year after the last attempt to establish autonomous crude oil sales, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, via the Cyrenaica-based rival management of National Oil Corporation (NOC-East), is again trying to negotiate deals with buyers from the United Arab Emirates. The...
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Libya
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New market rules and procurement as Namibia adapts to changing industry
Namibia is pushing ahead with plans to secure NamPower amid competition from distributed power providers and reduce reliance on imports, which currently account for around half of power consumption. In early May, the Ministry of Mines and Energy published its Electricity...
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Namibia
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Questions over SA-South Sudan deal
South Africa’s state-owned Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) signed a deal with the South Sudan government on 6 May to explore Block B2 in the Muglad Basin. The SFF will take a 90% operating interest in the block, with state-owned Nilepet taking 10%. It is only the second exploration...
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South Sudan, South Africa
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Small-scale LNG schemes start to gain momentum
Wärtsilä has signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract to build a 48MW gas power plant supplying Bua Group’s Sokoto cement plant in northern Nigeria. The plant will run primarily on liquefied natural gas (LNG) with low pour fuel oil as a back-up. Wärtsilä...
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Africa
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Mauritania/Senegal: Kosmos farmdown, contract awards
Kosmos Energy has launched a formal process to sell two thirds of its interest in the Mauritania/Senegal Basin, with bids expected by the end of the summer. Kosmos chairman and chief executive Andrew Inglis told a conference call on the company’s Q1 results on 6 May that the...
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Mauritania, Senegal
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Guinea: Bauxite developer signs dam concession agreement
China’s TBEA has signed a concession agreement for the construction of a 300MW hydroelectric dam at Amaria on the Konkouré River to power a planned bauxite development. Work on the dam has started following earlier preliminary agreements for the scheme. The dam will provide...
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Guinea
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Tanzania lags behind Mozambique on major projects
Despite governance shortfalls and a number of crises, President Filipe Nyusi’s government has reassured investors with its support for transformational LNG schemes, leading towards final investment decisions and financial close in the months to come. This is a major success...
Tanzania
Tshisekedi has much to prove after DR Congo poll
Leaked national electoral commission data showed Martin Fayulu had Democratic Republic of Congo’s presidency stolen from him in the 23 December poll won by Félix Tshisekedi Tshilombo. Ex-president Joseph Kabila Kabange’s candidate Emmanuel Shadary gained only 23.8% of the...
DR Congo
Libya: Tripoli under siege as Haftar tries to force an endgame
Has Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar overreached in his high-risk military advance on Tripoli? The dominant view is that he has erred politically by throwing everything into an all-or-nothing play for domination, and militarily by underestimating the difficulty of conquering the...
Libya
Mozambique: Cyclone Idai poses critical questions on aid, governance, climate change
Any administration would be hard-pressed to cope with Cyclone Idai. For central Mozambique, southern Malawi and eastern Zimbabwe, the catastrophe is piled onto already often poorly served communities and underperforming governments. Even after the most severe storm hit on 14-...
Mozambique
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02 October 2019 to 03 October 2019
Africa Investment Exchange: Nairobi
Power & Renewables Executive Briefing
AIX: Nairobi offers a comprehensive overview of the state...
Nairobi
Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Zambia
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13 November 2019 to 14 November 2019
Africa Investment Exchange: Power & Renewables
Over the last five years AIX Power & Renewables has become one of the meeting places of choice...
RSA House, London
Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa
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04 June 2019 to 05 June 2019
The West African Offshore Well Intervention Conference
West Africa’s only dedicated Offshore Well Intervention Conference is returning for its second year...
Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel, Accra, Ghana
Ghana
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04 June 2019 to 06 June 2019
Angola Oil & Gas
Officially endorsed by the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Petroleum of the Republic of Angola,...
Luanda
Angola
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11 June 2019 to 14 June 2019
Africa Energy Forum
The Africa Energy Forum (AEF) is the global investment meeting for Africa’s power, energy,...
Lisbon, Portual
Africa
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London Investor Forum 2019
For the second year, Africa Oil & Power returns to London to host the London Investor Forum...
London
West Africa
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13 June 2019 to 14 June 2019
Zambia International Mining and Energy Conference & Exhibition
SPOTLIGHT ON ZAMBIA’S CURRENT INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES IN THE MINING & ENERGY...
The Radisson Blue hotel, Lusaka, Zambia
Zambia
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