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Dublin-headquartered investor TechMet has taken an option to invest up to $50m in London Stock Exchange-listed Rainbow Rare Earths’ Phalaborwa project in Limpopo province.

South Africa
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Afentra has secured official approval for the acquisition of stakes in two offshore blocks from the state-owned oil company Sonangol. The UK independent said it was now working with Sonangol to finalise the formal completion of the deal.

Angola
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Canada’s Tantalex Lithium Resources has concluded a lithium marketing offtake agreement with Glencore and secured $5m in convertible loans from the Swiss commodities giant.

DR Congo
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Global Atomic Corporation (GAC), developer of the greenfield Dasa uranium mine, said on 10 November the United States government had “expressed support for project financing to proceed”.

Niger
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 Sources say five more turbines are expected to come online at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the coming months, adding a huge amount of capacity to the grid, even as questions remain over the megaproject’s economic impact and whether the infrastructure exists to increase exports. Meanwhile, Ethiopia faces the prospect of renewed conflict as tensions ratchet up with neighbouring Eritrea, writes Our Ethiopia Correspondent.

Sudan | Ethiopia | Eritrea
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Infinity Power has signed a 20-year capacity charge agreement (CCA) with utility Société Nationale d’Electricité du Sénégal (Senelec) for the Taïba N’Diaye battery plant. The storage system will operate in tandem with Infinity’s nearby Taïba N’Diaye wind plant, which was commissioned in February 2020. According to African Energy Live Data, Taïba will be the largest on-grid battery energy storage system in West Africa by some distance.

Senegal
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London AIM-listed Arc Minerals has finalised its Domes region copper joint venture (JV) with mining major Anglo American – the latter’s first new Zambian investment in two decades.

Zambia
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London AIM- and Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed Atlantic Lithium has been granted two new prospecting licences near its existing Ewoyaa acreage, where it is developing a spodumene pegmatite mine and ore processing plant.

Ghana
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The utilities of the four-nation Organisation for the Development of the Gambia River (L’Organisation pour la mise en Valeur du Fleuve Gambie, OMVG) have signed a transmission service agreement for the 1,677km ‘Loop’ high-voltage power transmission line. The $685m development comprises 4,000 pylons and 15 substations and interconnects the grids of Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal. As its name suggests, the 225kV, double-circuit line forms a circular network spanning the four countries.

Gambia | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Senegal
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South Africa’s state power utility Eskom has launched the Hex battery energy storage system (Bess) at Worcester in the Western Cape’s Breede Valley, after more than a year of construction work. The facility is the first to be finished under phase one of Eskom’s Bess scheme announced in July 2022.

South Africa
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The 1,982km Niger-Benin export pipeline (NBEP) has been nominally commissioned by Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, although in reality it will be some months before any crude oil is exported along the route.

Benin | Niger
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Tullow has agreed a $400m, five-year debt facility with commodities trader Glencore Energy, giving the UK indie a financial boost. The two sides have also agreed two oil marketing and offtake contracts, which will run concurrently with the debt agreement.

Ghana | Gabon
Issue 495 - 15 November 2023

Algeria: Another government reshuffle

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Aymen Benabderrahmane has been replaced as prime minister by President Abdelmajid Tebboune’s chief of staff (since March) Nadir Larbaoui.

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Dodoma and Kampala have signed a bilateral agreement to jointly fund a feasibility study for a new pipeline to send gas from southern Tanzania to Uganda.

Uganda | Tanzania
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First discovered in 1974, the offshore Kudu gas field could provide substantial gas-to-power capacity for Namibia’s domestic market and for export to South Africa. Officials say it will proceed independently of recent massive Orange Basin discoveries further south, but industry observers are sceptical of the electricity export plans, citing the lack of transmission infrastructure with South Africa, write Our Namibia Correspondent and Marc Howard.

Namibia | South Africa