Among those counting on the incoming government maintaining stability are the international oil companies (IOCs) that have made Angola Africa’s leading oil exporter. IOCs produced 96.7% of the total average 1.72m b/d output in 2016, according to Sonangol’s 2016 annual report...

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...

East Africa-focused offgrid supplier Mobisol has strengthened its capital base by drawing on a new senior loan facility from the Finnish Fund for Industrial Co-operation (Finnfund). The additional €10m ($11.7m) funding will support further expansion in East Africa, where...

In one of his final acts in office, on 13 January, Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama issued an Executive Order authorising “expanded trade with and investment in Sudan” for a six-month period. Under the order, sanctions would be lifted indefinitely from 13 July without the...

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) and Dutch development bank FMO are jointly lending $29.3m of senior debt with a 12-year term to refinance the 13MW Bugoye hydroelectric power plant in western Uganda. The refinancing agreements were signed on 13 July, with...