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EGYPT: Kureimat O&M tender; ETHIOPIA: EIB confirms Gibe III pullback; KENYA: AFD support for renewables; LESOTHO: EIB funds low-energy bulb plant; TANZANIA: Caterpillar on track with Zanzibar scheme

Improved rains have boosted reservoir levels and, once repairs to the Gilgel Gibe II power plant are completed, Ethiopia plans to start exporting power to Sudan via a new interconnection.

The World Bank has approved a soft International Development Association credit of $180m in additional financing for the Energy Access project to help the government to provide adequate and cost-effective electricity supply and scale up electricity coverage and access.

Toronto Stock Exchange-listed Africa Oil Corporation has signed a farm-out agreement with Agriterra (formerly White Nile) to acquire an 80% participating interest and operatorship of the South Omo Block in south-west Ethiopia.

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

London Stock Exchange-listed Afren has agreed to buy Black Marlin Energy for around $101m in an all-share deal. The deal gives Afren a strategic entry into East Africa with an exploration portfolio in Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar

Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has signed an agreement with China’s Dongfang Electric Corporation for the electromechanical and hydraulic steel structure works on the 1,870MW Gibe III hydroelectric power project.

Ethiopia Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has started up the first 115MW turbine at the new Beles hydropower plant.

A British geologist working for IMC Geophysics has been shot dead in an ambush in the Ogaden region.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has invited prequalification applications by 28 April for a contract to carry out additional environmental and social impact assessments of the 1,870MW Gibe III hydroelectric project on the Omo River

The World Bank Group is considering $225m of additional financing for Ethiopia’s Energy Access Project, which aims to expand access to electricity and improve supply.

ETHIOPIA: Norplan consortium awarded hydro study; KENYA: German loan for renewables

The collapse of a tunnel has shut down the 420MW Gibe II dam a month after it opened. Construction contractor Salini Costruttori said an “unforeseen geological event” had provoked a cave-in and a huge rock fall involving about 15 metres of the 26km headrace tunnel.

ANGOLA: ONGC in Sonangol venture; EGYPT: Spectraseis completes survey for Shell; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Gazprom Neft to take two blocks; ETHIOPIA: Dry well for Petronas; MOZAMBIQUE: Anadarko starts offshore drilling

Ethiopia in EITI, Guinea temporarily out; Big US fund divests Sudan related interests; French loan for Medupi turbines