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The Nachtigal hydroelectric power plant has reached 70% completion, it was reported following a mid-September visit to Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute by World Bank Group regional director for West and Central Africa infrastructure Franz Drees-Gross.

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Independent energy trader BB Energy said it intends to start trading solar-generated electricity on the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) by end-2023.

Botswana | Namibia | South Africa
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Parastatal Société Nationale de Raffinage (Sonara) has agreed to restructure its debt with Dutch energy and commodity trading house Vitol. Sonara is the sole importer of refined products into Cameroon. It also has an 80% stake in, and operates the country’s only refinery, Limbe.

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A move towards independent power transmission schemes being allowed to wheel power to private clients could prove a boon for commercial and industrial (C&I) developers. Panellists at the 20 September AIX Kenya roundtable predicted the environment will now become more favourable, following the election victory of William Ruto, after years when “we saw the government and utility push back on the C&I space owing to its revenue implications”.

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The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has terminated a contract with China’s Poly-GCL Petroleum Group Holding (Poly-GCL), citing a lack of progress in developing the Calub and Hilala gas fields and its failure to meet conditions set the government earlier this year.

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The government of Ghana signed a memorandum of understanding with the Nairobi-based African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) on 8 September, giving power producers access to the agency’s regional liquidity support facility (RLSF).

Ghana
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Family-owned local conglomerate Groupe Filatex is spending roughly $96m to develop a pipeline of renewable energy projects that will consolidate its position as one of Madagascar’s leading private energy suppliers.

Mozambique
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London Stock Exchange-listed Kavango Resources on 12 October announced “encouraging” results from its PL082/2018 licence in the Kalahari Copper Belt. The Botswana-focused metals explorer used controlled-source audio magnetotelluric surveys, hitherto unused in the Kalahari, to provide detailed data to a 4km depth

Botswana
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Seeking to build African alliances as it navigates the fallout of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia has reiterated its willingness to help build a 1,500km petroleum products pipeline in Republic of Congo, from the oil hub at Pointe Noire to Ouesso in the north.

Congo Brazzaville
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The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) is providing a soft loan to develop solar-powered lighting for 70km of roads in and around the capital Bangui. A deal was signed by SFD chief executive Sultan Bin Abdulrahman Al-Marshad and economy, planning and co-operation minister Félix Moloua on the sidelines of the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington.

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The global LNG market has been undermined just when ExxonMobil was expected to reach a final investment decision on its 15.2m t/yr Rovuma LNG scheme – the biggest of three projects aiming to channel at least $50bn of foreign investment (and possibly much more) into Mozambique over the next decade.The gas boom was expected to drive spectacular levels of economic growth, but while Mozambican economic planners and their allies contemplate the LNG project’s start-up being delayed possibly until 2030, the government is confronted with a burgeoning Islamist insurgency and huge economic pressures.

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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 27 May in nearby bush. Security forces have deployed in the area, where consortia led by Anadarko and Eni are planning big liquefied natural gas (LNG) developments.

Mozambique
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Eni and ExxonMobil, partners in Mozambique’s Area 4 liquefied natural gas (LNG) scheme, announced on 28 December that they have secured enough offtake commitments to move to a final investment decision (FID) on their planned onshore development in 2019. A joint statement gave no figures but said they had secured LNG offtake commitments from affiliated buyer entities of the partners, which it described as “a key milestone enabling the participants to rapidly move toward a final investment decision in 2019 on the first phase of the Rovuma LNG project”.

Mozambique
Issue 364 - 01 March 2018

Mozambique: EDF to buy Area 1 LNG

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Anadarko Petroleum Corporation has announced a sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with EDF of France for 1.2m t/yr of liquefied natural gas from its Area 1 development for 15 years. “EDF is one of the world’s largest electric utilities, and reaching this SPA continues to validate Mozambique LNG’s position as a competitive long-term LNG supplier and as one of the world’s leading greenfield projects,” said Anadarko executive vice-president international & deep-water operations and project management Mitch Ingram.

Mozambique
Issue 439 - 27 May 2021

Chad: After Idriss Déby Itno

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Idriss Déby Itno’s mid-April death fighting rebels in the Kanem region ended four decades of IDI’s authoritarian rule, but was immediately replaced by a Transitional Military Council (CMT) led by the late president’s son, 37-year-old Mahamat ‘Kaka’s Idriss Déby (AE 437/32).

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