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Portugal’s Escom to build Luapasso; Norway sends gensets to Liberia; Work starts on Aïn Beni Mathar; Senegalese rural electrification; India to finance Isimba project

ANGOLA: CMIC contract for Luanda grid; KENYA: Bamburi Cement to increase biomass use; LIBERIA: Stanley to study Mount Coffee expansion; MOROCCO: Abdelmoumen STEP deadline; MOZAMBIQUE: EDM seeks bids to extend grid; NIGERIA: Chinese to build first coal-fired plant; TANZANIA: AfDB funding; UGANDA: French JV to supply Bujagali; UPDEA: European meeting to discuss reform study

CONGO-B: Transformers contract; DR CONGO: Ruzizi 1 rehab tender; ETHIOPIA: Sterlite wins EEPCo contract; TUNISIA: Rural solar project; UGANDA: ERA approves Tororo plant

EGYPT: EIB loan will help launch Egyptian Refining Co project; UGANDA: New oil and gas policy; TANZANIA: Heads roll over power scandal

Tullow Oil plans a busy year of exploration and appraisal on its Ghana and Uganda discoveries, either of which could more than double the super-indie’s reserves base. Meanwhile, it has sold off its minority stake in a much-hyped field in Congo-B as it prunes its assets, writes Thalia Griffiths.

Philippe Edmonds’ White Nile Ltd has signed a production-sharing agreement for a 29,000km2 block in the Southern Rift Basin. The PSA follows a two-year joint study agreement for the acreage (AE 117/10).

Bujagali Energy Ltd (BEL) has closed financing on a $682m construction debt facility for the 250MW Bujagali hydropower project (AE 129/22). Multilateral and bilateral debt will be provided by the European Investment Bank, International Finance Corporation, African Development Bank, Dutch development agency Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelinsslanden (FMO), France’s Société de Promotion et de Participation pour la Cooperation Economique (Proparco) and Agence Française de Développement, and Germany’s Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft and Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau. Commercial debt will be provided by Standard Chartered Bank and Barclays/Absa Capital, with partial risk guarantee cover provided by the World Bank’s International Development Association.