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The board of the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has approved $350.7m to support the government’s power sector reform agenda, and improve the availability, reliability and quality of power supply by rehabilitating key power generation

In the latest phase of southern African downstream reorganisation, BP has agreed to sell its fuels marketing businesses in Namibia, Botswana and Zambia to Trafigura subsidiary Puma Energy, as well as its 50% interest in BP Malawi and BP Tanzania

South African marketer Engen Petroleum Limited has signed share purchase agreements for Chevron’s downstream interests in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean.

A lack of trust between neighbours seems to have put in jeopardy what looked like a desirable cross-border transmission scheme in southern Africa, linking Malawi – which, with Tanzania, is the only Southern Africa Power Pool member not connected to its neighbours – to Mozambique.

Express mail multinational TNT Post in 2008 established a joint venture with local Bioenergy Resources to plant some 24m jatropha trees on 20,000ha for biodiesel production. Some 15,000 farmers were to be provided with seeds in a project based on contract growing by smallholders and commercial growers.

BP has announced plans to sell its marketing business in Namibia, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana following a strategic review. The review of BP’s refining and marketing businesses in southern Africa showed that the company

Malawi plans to establish a national oil company aimed at ensuring security of supply of petroleum products. The government of South Sudan has said it plans to build a $2bn oil refinery to process its crude.

EGYPT: USTDA funds petrochemicals, railways; EGYPT: First public-private infrastructure transaction; LIBERIA: AfDB finances development bank; LIBERIA: Extra World Bank funds for infrastructure; MOZAMBIQUE/MALAWI: AfDB funds Nacala road corridor

AFDB: Clean technology fund investment; MALAWI: World Bank funding; SIERRA LEONE: IFC opens new country office

Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has invited expressions of interest (by 6 March) from contractors for the second phase construction of the Kapichira hydroelectric plant, on the Shire River. The 64MW Phase 1 was commissioned in 2000 and the second phase will double the generation capacity.

Following the completion of a prefeasibility study on a proposed pipeline from Mozambique’s Indian Ocean port of Beira to Malawi’s proposed inland port of Nsanje, Qatar’s Venessia Petroleum is preparing to launch an engineering and design study for the project (AE 131/20).

Angola’s National Private Investment Agency (ANIP) has published figures showing that planned rehabilitation and construction of new power plants between 2009 and 2016 will require an investment of $8.4bn. The Ministry of Energy and Water plans projects to harness the hydroelectric potential of the Kwanza, Catumbela and Cunene rivers.

The Greening Tea Industry in East Africa Project (GTIEA) is seeking bids by 21 April from consultants for feasibility studies of six small hydropower projects to be built at tea factories in four East African countries.

Malawi has become the latest country to cut off diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of the People’s Republic of China