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The African Development Bank (AfDB) is close to finalising grants of UA9.69m from the African Development Fund and UA60m from the Fragile States Facility to finance Congo’s semi-urban and rural electrification project

The West African Development Bank (BOAD) has agreed a loan of FCFA20bn ($41m) to the Niger government to fund the expansion of the capital’s main power plant. Capacity at the Goudel plant will be expanded to 65MW from 35MW to improve supply to the Niamey region. Most of Niger’s power comes from the Kandji dam in Nigeria, which supplies towns in the south and centre-east. Northern Niger is supplied through local production by Niger coal company Sonichar, which also supplies power to Areva’s uranium mines.

South Africa-based Engen Petroleum formally acquired Chevron’s interests in Tanzania on 1 February, under one of seven agreements to take over downstream interests in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands.

Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution, which drove Zine El Abidine Ben Ali into exile in Saudi Arabia on 13 January, was the unexpected trigger that has made Arab populations wake up after decades of submission to personalised, autocratic regimes. But it is events in Egypt that will drive how the ‘Arab street’ and those who seek

The government is in talks with India’s Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd about a $2bn oil refinery that could be operational by 2015

Shareholders in Mmamabula power project developer CIC Energy Corporation have voted in favour of the company’s acquisition by coal-hungry Indian power developer JSW Energy Limited.

The Government of Southern Sudan will not compromise in negotiations with the north over the status of Abyei, and is prepared to take up arms again if the impasse continues

The West African Development Bank (BOAD) has agreed a loan of FCFA20bn ($41m) to the Niger government to fund the expansion of the capital’s main power plant. Capacity at the Goudel plant will be expanded to 65MW from 35MW to improve supply to the Niamey region. Most of Niger’s power comes from the Kandji dam in Nigeria, which supplies towns in the south and centre-east. Northern Niger is supplied through local production by Niger coal company Sonichar, which also supplies power to Areva’s uranium mines.

The government is optimistic that a new mining bill will soon attract investment to help develop the country’s minerals potential and is drawing up model contracts and licences. Despite strong indications of high prospectivity for metals and minerals in South Sudan, a lack of data has meant that their potential has remained unrealised. But, according to senior officials at the Ministry of Energy and Mining....

Norway’s DNO has reported that the Chite-1 exploration well in the Inhaminga Block failed to find hydrocarbons.

Amid growing interest in West Africa’s untapped potential, Bergen Oilfield Services (BOS) is to acquire a big multi-client 2D seismic survey extending from Senegal to Guinea.

Calgary-based UNX Energy has signed a 3D seismic contract with Petroleum Geo-Services

It hardly rates on the scale of the drama that a courageous Tunisian population delivered to the world in ousting Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, but manoeuvrings by members of the former presidential circle to allow them to profit handsomely with little effort from the award of contracts for a gas-fired

Tullow Oil has announced that the Tweneboa-3 appraisal well in the Deepwater Tano licence encountered gas condensate in high-quality sandstone reservoirs, confirming the Greater Tweneboa Area resource base potential.

Ireland’s Petroceltic International has announced that well AT-4 on its Isarene permit in the Illizi Basin confirmed the presence of a gas column