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

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

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.

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

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,

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 Ministry of Industry and Technology has finally issued its request for qualification (RFQ) for the 1,200MW Elmed independent power project, intended to supply 800MW for export to Italy and 400MW for state utility Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz (Steg). The main thermal power plant will be gas-fired, but in its latest configuration Elmed also includes a renewable energy component of at least 100MW.

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.

BG has named Dr Arshad Sufi as president and general manager for BG Egypt, replacing Tim Blackford

CIC Energy Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Chinese company to develop a 300MW power station and associated mine at the Mmamabula coalfield to supply the domestic market.