COUNTRIES AND MARKETS

Eskom faces another electricity supply crunch in 2012-13; A joint venture between Firestone Energy and Sekoko Coal has signed a memorandum of understanding with state utility Eskom; South Sudan is looking to import 50-100MW from Ethiopia in “two or three years”; South Africa’s Conlog (Pty) Ltd has won a E291,487 ($388,000) contract for meters and other equipment; Documents for a treaty covering the financing, construction, operation and development of electricity interconnections linking Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea were signed during a meeting of energy ministers on 5 March; Senior executives are under pressure at state utility Zesa Holdings after awarding themselves increases in their allowances of up to 75%, backdated to 2009