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Africa's efforts to invest in clean energy have been given a boost with six countries to receive $1.1bn in new financing. Mozambique, Niger and Zambia will each receive up to $50m-70m under the World Bank's Climate Investment Fund (CIF) initiative.

The government has contracted Kenya’s Dalbit Petroleum and Kuwait’s Independent Petroleum Group to import refined products to help alleviate a fuel shortage.

Belgium’s Office National du Ducroire/Nationale Delcrederedienst (ONDD) has downgraded several sub-Saharan countries this year because of their short-term political risk, according to country analyst Inge Lambrechts.

BENIN: WAPP meets on Maria Gléta project, GHANA: Kumasi grid tender; MOZAMBIQUE: Riversdale signs framework deal for Benga CTP; MOZAMBIQUE: Rehabilitation of two dams in Manica province; TUNISIA: Grid loan from AfDB; ZAMBIA/NAMIBIA: Power supply deal

CHAD: Chinese funding deals signed for N’djamena refinery; ANGOLA: KBR wins new contract for Sonaref technology; ZAMBIA: Indeni to seek new partner

ALGERIA: New Illizi Basin gas find; ANGOLA: Subsea 7 wins BP contract; REPUBLIC OF CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE): Murphy begins oil production, makes discovery; REPUBLIC OF CONGO: SOCO spuds first Marine XI well; REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Dry well on Marine IX; EGYPT: Dana gas finds; EGYPT: Eni starts subsea gas production at North Bardawil; LIBYA: ExxonMobil drills first deep-water well; NIGERIA: Afren takes 28% stake in Okwok; NIGERIA: KNOC wins lawsuit against government; NIGERIA/SAO TOME: Addax starts JDZ drilling; SENEGAL: Shell pulls out of deal; TANZANIA: Upstream players create trade association; ZAMBIA: Government extends licensing round deadline

Africa’s power pools are talking up their potential to endow the continent with a larger, more rational electricity supply infrastructure.

With the Zambian electricity supply industry in a state of flux, Lusaka Stock Exchange-listed Copperbelt Energy Corporation plc (CEC) is planning another growth spurt, building new generating capacity with the estimated $100m Kabompo Gorge hydroelectric power (HEP) project in North-Western Province.

MAURITANIA: Uranium permit; MOZAMBIQUE: Riversdale wins Benga coal mining contract; NIGER: Uranium projects; NIGERIA: Gas supply constraints continue to hobble industry; NIGERIA: PHCN looks for tariff increase; SOUTH AFRICA: Transformer demand booms, consultant says; SOUTH AFRICA: New Western Cape wind farm scheme; TUNISIA: Nuclear deal with France; TUNISIA: Nexans cables for new airport; ZAMBIA: Lumwana inauguration

Zambia finds itself in the unusual position of having surplus power supply as a result of increased generation from upgrades to its power plants and the economic crisis which has seen the country’s copper miners slash their production.

CAMEROON: US bauxite miner seeks power; EGYPT: Ain Sokhna financing; KENYA: Wind map tender; KENYA: Wind turbine tender; MOZAMBIQUE: Coal India wins concessions on two blocks; RWANDA/BURUNDI: Interconnection loan; SOUTH AFRICA: Alstom contract for Koeberg; ZAMBIA: Kariba North construction launched

Despite early hopes that Africa might escape the worst of the global financial crisis, sharp falls in oil and metals prices will hit many countries hard.

Zambia Electricity Supply Company (Zesco)/South Africa-based Tata Africa Holdings joint venture Itezhi-Tezhi Power Corporation has launched an international tender to build the 120MW Itezhi-Tezhi hydropower project on the Kafue River.

ZCCM-Investments Holdings (ZCCM-IH), owner of coal miner Maamba Collieries, announced on 8 January that it had received final offers from UK-based metals and mining group Vedanta Resources and Singapore’s Nava Bharat to operate the country’s largest coal mine and to build a 300-350MW thermal power station.

The 750MW Kafue Gorge Lower project has been delayed by the need to change the project site, according to the International Finance Corporation (IFC). “Our team has… discovered that the site that has been planned for a long time is technically more complex than the site which is a few hundred metres down stream, (which) has now been selected