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Abu Dhabi’s perceived support for General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti)’s RSF rebels led the Burhan regime to order 15 UAE embassy staff to leave Khartoum, posing further questions about the Gulf state’s role in the Sudanese civil war, while Hemedti makes significant diplomatic gains abroad and military advances in tortured Sudan.

Sudan | Chad
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Privately-owned indie Perenco has long been a significant upstream player in west and central Africa and it is now extending its position with new discoveries and plans to increase production in Chad, Republic of Congo and elsewhere, as its general manager Benoît de la Fouchardiere tells African Energy.

Cameroon | DR Congo | Chad | Congo Brazzaville | Gabon
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Abu Dhabi has yet to give a clear explanation for the extensive airlift to Amdjarass in north-eastern Chad that has been under way since May, but recent reports by a number of US media outlets suggest the UAE has been using the operation to supply anti-tank missiles and drones to Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti)’s Rapid Support Forces, one of the two main protagonists in Sudan’s civil war.

Sudan | Chad
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Gulf governments have proved among President Vladimir Putin’s most enthusiastic friends, undermining western efforts to isolate Moscow in a relationship that goes beyond energy and business links. With the mercenary Wagner Group active across the Sahel, several dozen cargo flights between Abu Dhabi and a remote air strip in eastern Chad have provoked renewed speculation about the UAE’s ties with Moscow and its proxies, Gulf States Newsletter staff* report.

Sudan | Chad | Central African Republic | Libya | Burkina Faso | Mali
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Cameroon Oil Transportation Company’s new senior leadership team features figures from Chad and Cameroon, prompting speculation that their bilateral rift may be healing. UK-based independent Savannah Energy remains a central player, but may come under further pressure if the two governments start acting in concert, writes James Gavin.

Cameroon | Chad
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The dispute over Savannah Energy’s assets in Chad and Cameroon has intensified, amid claims that Chad orchestrated an illegitimate general meeting of shareholders in the Cotco pipeline company – drawing a rebuke from Yaoundé, writes James Gavin.

Chad | Cameroon
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Savannah Energy’s dispute with Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno’s government in Ndjamena has gone cross-border, with diplomatic ties between Chad and Cameroon under stress after the London AIM-listed oil company’s new deal to sell part of its interest in the export pipeline, writes James Gavin.

Chad | Cameroon
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London AIM-listed Savannah Energy said it planned to announce a series of new utility-scale renewable power projects over the course of Q2 and Q3 2023 and was moving ahead with its planned acquisition of assets in South Sudan, as it deals with the shock nationalisation of its upstream assets and export pipeline in Chad in March.

Chad
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The International Monetary Fund has trimmed its economic growth expectations for sub-Saharan Africa in its latest World Economic Outlook to 3.6% for 2023. Low-income countries are expected to outperform most of their richer neighbours, but some analysts have warned the IMF is being overly optimistic.

DR Congo | Angola | Chad | Nigeria | Uganda | Ethiopia | Gabon | Senegal | Côte d'Ivoire
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Chadian developer ZIZ Energie has confirmed to African Energy the dates it expects its solar PV mini-grids in Ati and Moussoro to come online. The two projects have faced numerous delays due to supply constraints and financing issues.

Chad
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Savannah Energy has vowed to pursue all its legal options – including arbitration at the ICA in Paris – after Mahamat Idriss Déby’s ‘transitional’ government nationalised the upstream oil assets the UK independent had acquired from ExxonMobil in December.

Chad
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The World Bank Group (WBG) has launched a new $311m fund for renewables in Chad, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Togo.

Sierra Leone | Chad | Liberia | Togo
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Outsiders have found it extremely difficult to gain details of the Chadian transitional government’s deliberations over oil and much else in a system forged in the late Idriss Déby Itno’s image and the politics of his ruling, but minority Zaghawa clan.

Chad
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AIM-listed Savannah Energy has taken over ExxonMobil’s stakes in the Doba oil project and Chad-Cameroon pipeline, but its plans to expand further in Chad have been undermined by the opposition of Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno’s transitional government to its acquisition of Malaysian national oil company Petronas’s 35% stakes in the projects. Authorities in N’Djamena blamed regional anti-trust laws, but the developments may also reflect volatile Sahel polities, writes Marc Howard.

Cameroon | Chad
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Global Alliance for People and Planet and the Norwegian government have pledged more funding to support the development of solar power in Sahel countries.

Niger | Chad | Nigeria | Ethiopia | Djibouti | Eritrea | Burkina Faso | Mali