The issue leads with an in depth look at the pressures caused by commodity market volatility, with several sub-Saharan countries now classed as ‘debt-stressed’. African Energy also examines the prospects that commodity exporters may profit as the energy transition and geopolitical shifts present opportunities for everything from natural gas to transition minerals.
Feature articles also focus on South Africa, where the Zondo Commission is still picking over the Zuma- era state capture scandal in the power sector and power procurement programmes are facing challenges from rising component and engineering costs.
Upstream coverage includes news from Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and South Sudan.
Downstream coverage leads with Libya, where a month after demonstrators closed down parts of the country's oil production and export infrastructure in protest against Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Al-Dabaiba’s refusal to hand over power, political and economic pressure is building at every point in the system.
The African Energy View focuses on Nigeria, where less than a year from elections, the line-up of statements trumpeting policy successes for President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is nearly as long as the petrol queues across the nation.
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