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As reserves dwindle, Libya militias intensify struggle for resources
The total budget deficit accumulated by Libya’s Tripoli-based administrations since 2011 is now LYD71bn (approximately $50bn), African Energy understands. However, since the House of Representatives legislature re-established itself in Cyrenaica in 2014, the rival interim...
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Libya
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Zambia cost-of-service study faces obstruction and delay
Zesco and senior officials are determined to press ahead with tariff increases despite the stalling of a cost-of-service study that was intended to form the basis of a new multi-year tariff determination. Negotiations have been under way since last year with large consumers,...
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Zambia
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South Sudan signals end to crude cargoes
In lifting contracts agreed by Juba in early July for crude shipments in August, there is no cargo for Sudan Petroleum Corporation, signalling an end to the diversion of oil cargoes to Khartoum to pay South Sudan’s oil debts. Energy minister Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth said in February...
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South Sudan
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Personal politics turned to the good as Ethiopia basks in Abiy effect
Personalities remain a key factor in shaping a continent trying to emerge from lost decades of ‘big man’ politics. While the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) made much of efforts to create a post-conflict ‘developmental state’ in the last two...
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Ethiopia
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Kenya: Lake Turkana added to List of World Heritage in Danger
A World Heritage Committee meeting in Manama decided on 28 June to inscribe the Lake Turkana National Parks on the List of World Heritage in Danger, citing the impact of Ethiopia’s Gibe III dam on the site.The committee expressed concern about the changes affecting the hydrology...
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Kenya
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Shadow of debt has not yet deterred Zambia’s investors
An announcement by finance minister Margaret Mwanakatwe on 6 July that the government had completed a three-week investigation into its debt sustainability and “we know what debt we have and also we have shared the facts and figures with the [International Monetary Fund] IMF”...
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Zambia
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Tanzania/Zambia: Governments mull Tazara rail privatisation
The governments of Tanzania and Zambia are planning to privatise the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) to improve management of the 1,860km route from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to New Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia. Tazara said in 2016 that it needed around $250m of short-term...
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Tanzania, Zambia
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