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Morocco’s Office National de l’Electricité invites bids by 15 September for 5,719 solar photovoltaic units to be installed as part of Senegal’s rural electrification programme.

The contagion effect of the financial crisis, piracy and Islamic extremism is contributing to the escalating conflict in Somalia, which until recently centred on the Mogadishu area, but has now spread to other regions.

This special African Energy report dedicated to Libya is published one month ahead of the 40th anniversary of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi’s ‘Great El Fatah Revolution’.

The great opportunities that tempted so many international players into Libya’s energy sector have not gone away.

The nation has been transfixed by the Niger Delta crisis, as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta’s attack on a jetty in Lagos and subsequent 60-day ceasefire offer took the conflict to a new level.

Despite rising electricity demand in southern Africa, developing the Kudu gasfield to feed a regional generation scheme remains a distant hope.

The French Areva group’s supervisory board has agreed to put its Transmission & Distribution division up for sale.

Critical energy sector developments moved slowly while the presidential election dominated public life. But in a recent flurry of activity, the country has put gas infrastructure investment at the top of its agenda, writes John Hamilton.

After years of talk, the five governments supporting the Western Corridor (Westcor) project – Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, and South Africa – have decided to shelve the scheme to provide electricity from the planned 3,500MW Inga III to the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP).

Australia’s Atomic Resources Ltd has started work with the government on a bankable feasibility study for a coal-to-power project in the south of the country.

Unusually for a country where politics has been so meticulously planned for so long, Gabon did not appear to have a plan for President Omar Bongo Ondimba’s succession.

Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay $15.5m to the Ogoni people to settle a long-running court case brought in the United States under the Alien Tort Claims Act.

With President Abdelaziz Bouteflika safely re-elected, international oil companies have been hoping to see a shift back towards the more flexible, investor-friendly policies that Algeria pursued prior to its decision to revise the 2005 Hydrocarbons Law. Not only were terms revised during Bouteflika’s second term, to restore the state’s traditionally

There is a sense of relief among the South African business classes that President Jacob Zuma has appointed long-serving finance minister Trevor Manuel to a potentially critical job in his big new government. A court’s decision crushing the highly politicised trade union-led opposition to SA’s biggest listing in years, of telecoms giant Vodacom,

Norway’s InterOil Exploration & Production has signed an agreement with Iran’s Petropars to sell 10% in the CabindaNorth licence for $7m. The 2,400km2 block is operated by Sonangol P&P and InterOil farmed-in in January 2008, taking21%. The block has existing oil discoveries in the Zila ridge area near the coast and in the Dinge high area. Sonangol has 20%;other partners on the block are SOCO International with 17%, Teikoku Oil Company (17%), Angola Consulting Resources(Acrep) (15%) and Eni Angola (10%).