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US anger over Ghana’s resistance to ExxonMobil and African disillusion with France is opening the way for a new British investment push into Africa.

The government has given conditional approval for the sale of Heritage Oil Corporation’s assets to Tullow Oil, paving the way for development of the Albertine Graben’s oil resources, while Tullow Uganda has also received approval for its subsequent farm-down of 33% stakes to CNOOC and Total.

Brazil’s Eletrobrás has signed an agreement with Electricidade de Moçambique for technical co-operation on a viability study of a transmission line in Mozambique

Ethiopia’s South West Energy has hired former UK minister Lord [Mark] Malloch-Brown in an advisory role.

A prominent daughter of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has won a prestigious environmental prize

Kenya Electricity Generating Company has issued an international tender to build a pair of geothermal power plants with a total capacity of 280MW

AIM-listed Uranium Resources has announced the start of drilling on its Mtonya prospect in the Selous Basin, southern Tanzania.

Few markets have shifted focus as quickly in recent decades as the natural gas industry, where the application of new technology to tight gas reserves, starting in North America, has transformed the outlook for ‘conventional’ producers. This trend has yet to shake Africa,

Brussels-based publisher André Versaille éditeur has produced a 240-page guide to Democratic

As the rate of new discoveries in West Africa slows, the pace is picking up in East Africa, where hopes are high that Uganda’s remarkable success can be replicated elsewhere. Smaller players are seeing a bigger upside in entering frontier regions rather than in adding incremental production in West Africa’s established oil provinces.

Following the death of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on 5 May after a prolonged illness, vice president Goodluck Jonathan has been elevated to the presidency after several months filling in as the acting head of state. With many of Nigeria’s political elite still deeply unhappy at a southerner taking office during the agreed presidential tenure for the north,

Efforts to improve the energy industry’s transparency are once again in the spotlight as the United Kingdom introduces an anti-bribery law and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) struggles to keep its candidate countries in line. The EITI board’s decision to grant extensions to 16 of the 17 countries that had failed to complete validation by the 9 March deadline

The Desertec Industrial Initiative (DII) to export solar power from North Africa to Europe continues to exercise considerable media and industry interest, promising clean energy from a network of solar generators based in the desert lands south of the Mediterranean.

Renewables projects are attracting strong interest from financiers, with Morocco offering particularly strong incentives for investors, writes John Hamilton

In theory, there is a huge amount of business to be done in Libya.