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Global lockdown accelerates debt crisis as governments search for solutions
With the most vulnerable debtors facing meltdown – highlighted by Zambia’s threatened default on $3bn- worth of eurobonds – international donors have been refashioning their emergency support for crisis-hit countries, as coronavirus lockdowns and commodity price slumps undermine...
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Africa
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Mozambique: Tariff response to Covid-19 expected
The government is considering three tariff measures to reduce the impact of Covid-19 on the power sector. African Energy understands that the first is a reduction in the tariff for social customers, the lowest income segment of Electricidade de Moçambique’s (EdM) customer base....
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Mozambique
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Energise Africa raises £14m from crowdfunding
Impact investment platform Energise Africa says that since its 2017 launch it has raised more than £14m ($17m) through crowdfunding for energy access businesses in Africa. Energise Africa is part of Lendahand Ethex Ltd, a joint venture between the United Kingdom’s Ethex...
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Africa
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South Africa: Nersa approves $763m for Eskom through RCA
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has approved a regulatory clearing account (RCA) balance for Eskom of R13.27bn ($763m).The RCA is a mechanism for recouping prudently incurred costs that were not foreseen in previous tariff determinations, as well as making...
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South Africa
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Museveni downplays oil’s role in future economy
In comments underlining the gulf that still appears to exist between the government and its IOC partners, President Yoweri Museveni has played down the significance of oil to Uganda’s economic development, saying agriculture and industrial development were key to the country’s...
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Uganda
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Zambia faces debt crisis
Most immediate concern focuses on Zambia, whose commodities- based economy had attracted eurobond, Chinese and other investors, but which has got into major problems on President Edgar Lungu’s watch. These pressures have been significantly exacerbated by liabilities that were...
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Zambia
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