On 5 August, presidents Yoweri Museveni and John Pombe Magufuli broke ground for a 1,445km export pipeline to carry Ugandan crude from Hoima to Tanzania’s Tanga port. The heated pipeline will be the longest of its kind in the world, and the governments have agreed that the $3...

The government says it has agreed core project terms with a new consortium to develop its controversial refinery project. The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development said the Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium was made up of GE Oil & Gas, US developer Yaatra Ventures...

While commercial lenders and multilaterals fret about rising indebtedness and poor rates of return, African leaders are again seeking refuge in infrastructure mega-schemes they believe will pull the continent towards Chinese levels of growth. President John Pembe Magufuli of...

Production cuts by a majority of Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) producers, working in coordination with non-Opec exporters led by Russia, have helped to raise oil prices from their 2014-16 lows; the strategy seems likely to maintain crude benchmarks...

Mineral resources and energy minister Leticia da Silva Klemens and Royal Dutch Shell executive vice-president, integrated gas ventures development Clare Harris have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Maputo on the allocation of gas from the Rovuma Basin for...