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Macky Sall has installed trusted ally Antoine Félix Abdoulaye Diome as oil and energy minister in a move said to be designed to extend outgoing president’s influence over the sector even after he leaves office, writes Waly Dione Faye.

Senegal
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Kenya’s Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) will hold public hearings in late October and early November to gauge reaction to a series of proposed changes to electricity sector regulations set out by the government earlier this year.

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African liquified natural gas (LNG) projects will emerge as a major investment theme, consultancy WoodMackenzie has predicted, but the oil sector is likely to struggle to offset declines at maturing assets.

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Perenco Oil & Gas has announced the start of production from the Hylia South West oil discovery, offshore Gabon. Output is averaging 3,000 b/d, the Paris-based company said.

Gabon
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Oslo Børs-listed PetroNor E&P’s has announced an update of its Republic of Congo operations, which focus on the PNGF Sud field complex, where Q3 23 net to PetroNor production was 5,118 b/d, compared up from 4,130 b/d in Q3 22.

Congo Brazzaville
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Norwegian independent PetroNor is growing its footprint in Nigeria with an increased interest in the Aje field, although analysts expressed concern over the valuation of its equity increase.

Nigeria
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Independent power producer (IPP) Tatanga Energy is to develop nine solar mini-grids at schools and hospitals in eastern Zimbabwe for the Anglican Diocese of Manicaland.

Zimbabwe
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AOC has made further changes to its senior team, as it looks for partners to share the costs of developing offshore blocks EG-18 and EG-31, which the Canadian-headquartered junior acquired earlier this year. Meanwhile oil majors continue to divest from Equatorial Guinea.

Equatorial Guinea
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Dependent on South Africa for most of its electricity supply, Lesotho is making progress on renewable generation projects that officials say will allow the mountain kingdom to become self-sufficient and even eventually a net power exporter, writes Tonderayi Mukeredzi.

Lesotho
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Sturdee Energy’s Bobonong and Shakawe solar PV plants have started commercial operations. The plants are among Botswana’s first renewable energy projects

Botswana
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A Dubai-based company backed by a well-connected but relatively low-profile member of Dubai’s ruling Al-Maktoum family has been signing deals across Africa to generate carbon credits – generating some controversy in the process.

Liberia | Zimbabwe | Zambia | Tanzania
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Sudan and Iran have resumed diplomatic relations after a seven-year break, with their embassies to be reopened in the near future. The development followed talks between Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Sudan’s acting foreign affairs minister Ali Al-Sadiq Ali on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement summit in Baku, Azerbaijan earlier this year

Sudan
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Seven plaintiffs have filed a criminal complaint with Paris prosecutors against TotalEnergies, accusing the French major of negligence and indirect manslaughter during the March 2021 attack on Palma by Islamist insurgents.

Mozambique
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Mpho Makwana will leave Eskom at the end of October, having served for only slightly over a year as chair of the state utility’s board of directors, with further divisions among decision-makers apparent in the protracted search for a new group chief executive officer (GCEO).

South Africa
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Reports suggest Italian major Eni expects to reach a final investment decision (FID) for its Coral Norte floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) plant by June 2024. The 3.4m t/yr Coral Sul development dispatched its first LNG cargo last November, supplied by six subsea wells drilled in the Coral field.

Mozambique