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Belgium’s International Montage Maintenance Group has won the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to develop a 22MW power plant at Gerald Group’s Marampa iron ore mine in Sierra Leone.

This map shows south-eastern Africa's graphite potential. The main map shows the location of graphite projects in Madagascar, Mozambique and Tanzania. An inset provides greater detail of Mozambique's Cabo Delgado region, showing security incidents alongside the location of graphite projects and other major infrastructure including roads and power transmission lines. A second inset shows the region around Antananarivo in Madagascar.

Norway’s PetroNor E&P has said it will continue with a petroleum, exploration, development and production licence agreement (Pepla) for the A4 licence area in Gambia.

Dubai-based Amea Power has announced plans to increase operational capacity at the Blitta solar PV power plant in Togo.

Germany’s Juwi is the final stages of commissioning the 36MWp solar PV plant at Centamin’s Sukari gold mine, which will work alongside an existing diesel plant.

A 30-year concession has been signed for rail services and logistical support for the 1,290km Lobito corridor, which connects Lobito port to Luau in Angola’s east, close to the DR Congo border. The corridor offers the shortest route for mined copper and cobalt from DRC and Zambia to reach a deep-water port. It also offers increased capacity for the transit of liquids and gases.

The Africa Carbon Market Initiative (ACMI) was formally launched at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt, with the aim of generating 300m carbon credits a year by 2030, which would lead to $6bn in revenue. Several African countries – including Kenya, Malawi, Gabon, Nigeria and Togo – have signalled their intention to collaborate with ACMI, to scale up their voluntary carbon markets (VCM).

The multi-donor Universal Energy Facility has issued a Wave 2 tender for mini-grid projects in Democratic Republic of Congo, while results are awaited on its call for bids in Madagascar and Sierra Leone.

London-listed Predator Oil & Gas Holdings has said the drilling of its MOU-2 gas well on the onshore Guercif licence is likely to start in the first half of December .

Eni is planning to drill a well on its Tarfaya Offshore Shallow exploration block in H1 2023. Tarfaya is Eni’s only Moroccan acreage, comprising a dozen licences in water depths of up to 1,000m between Agadir and the disputed territory of Western Sahara.

Commercial and industrial power developer CrossBoundary Energy said on 8 November it was working with Bank of America to explore opportunities with development finance institutions to structure a blended finance loan facility.

Malawi has taken further steps towards its goal of universal electrification with the launch of the ‘Scaling Renewables in Malawi to Underpin Development’ programme.  Backed by the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), the programme aims to expand electricity access from its current level of 18%.

The Korea Institute for the Advancement of Technology (KIAT) is to invest $12.4m in four solar PV mini-grid projects in Nigeria, under a deal signed with the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).

Eni has begun the construction of a 5MW solar photovoltaic plant at the Adam oil concession in the Tataouine governorate. The energy produced will be used on site, reducing gas consumption and avoiding around 6.500 t/yr of CO2 equivalent emissions. The solar plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2019 as part of a cooperation agreement with Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activités Pétrolières. The project aims to establish a hybrid electricity production system with battery storage devices to integrate with the existing turbines.

Three South Africa municipalities are looking for information from potential independent power producers. Ethekwini, which includes the city of Durban, has already issued a request for information (RfI) for 400MW.