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Electricity supply industries must deal with legacy of poor policy
The legacy of colonialism may continue to shape contemporary Africa, but policymakers must also grapple with more recent follies as they struggle to address the legal and financial ramifications of decades of poorly structured and inadequately implemented infrastructure...
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Africa
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Tanzania: Songas unfazed by critical report
A Special Parliamentary Committee on the Gas Sub-Sector delivered a summary of its report in Tanzania’s parliament on 2 June. The committee was tasked in November 2017 with deciding whether contracts in the gas sector contained “unconscionable terms” which could be revised under...
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Tanzania
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Ethiopia: EEP privatisation among mooted reforms
The government of new prime minister Abiy Ahmed has lifted the state of emergency and announced plans for the part privatisation of several state enterprises, including Ethiopian Electric Power, in the latest moves by the new administration to relax the state’s tight control.The...
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Ethiopia
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Islamist attacks in northern Mozambique highlight challenges facing LNG scheme
Scores of people have been killed since late May in attacks on villages in the northern Cabo Delgado province blamed on Islamist militants. In one attack near the coastal town of Palma, the attackers abducted residents from Monjane and Ulumbi villages who were found beheaded on...
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Mozambique
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Nawasi and the Libyan militias
The Al-Nawasi Brigade is one of a handful of militias that now control Tripoli and most of the government entities there. Together with the Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade, the Special Deterrence Force (Rada), and the Abu Slim unit of the Central Security Apparatus, they have...
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Libya
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Emergent superpower China can’t be reduced to hero or villain
In this still young century, China has emerged as by far Africa’s biggest economic partner, establishing a vast footprint across the continent at breakneck speed. As many ties with the west have declined – especially following the 2008-09 global financial crisis – Chinese...
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Africa
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Libya generation tenders undone by accountants and gunmen
Libya’s independent national audit authority has cancelled two power plant construction contracts worth $700m awarded by General Electric Company of Libya (Gecol) to Siemens and Turkey’s Enka Teknik in December because of irregularities in both the financing and the tender....
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Libya
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