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The former president of Africa Oil and Black Marlin is back in East Africa with a new company looking to farm into some of Ophir Energy’s more politically challenging assets

Somalia | DR Congo | Madagascar | Uganda
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With the dust settling after Congo’s tumultuous election, which was widely believed to have been rigged by the ruling party, upstream activity is beginning in earnest, but for new arrivals the implications of the death of a key presidential adviser may be profound

DR Congo
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BHP Billiton’s decision to abandon its smelter project in DRC poses another major challenge to the eventual development of the Inga hydroelectric resource, and with it, to the country’s mining industry, writes François Misser

DR Congo
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Another year and thoughts turn to the potentials – be they 39GW, 44GW or 50GW – of the Congo River’s Inga hydroelectric resource, or of oil plays in the Albertine Graben, where Tullow Oil’s Ugandan field on the other side of the lacustrine border will come on stream this year

DR Congo
Issue 222 - 16 December 2011

Bidders sought for Ruzizi hydro studies

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The European Union has invited applications to prequalify for studies for the proposed 145MW Ruzizi I hydroelectric project’s grid connection, and rehabilitation studies for the 29.8MW Ruzizi 1 and 43.8MW Ruzizi II plants (AE 207/14).

DR Congo | Rwanda | Burundi
Issue 221 - 02 December 2011

Presidents sign Inga deal

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South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the 40-50GW Grand Inga hydro project during a 12 November visit to Lubumbashi by President Jacob Zuma

DR Congo | South Africa
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Weeks ahead of DRC’s presidential election, the Senate Special Commission of Inquiry’s damning report shows the appalling extent of mismanagement at Snel since the utility’s creation

DR Congo
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Weeks ahead of DRC’s presidential election, the Senate Special Commission of Inquiry’s damning report shows the appalling extent of mismanagement at Snel since the utility’s creation, writes François Misser

DR Congo
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The SAPP is putting on a brave face about prospects for the region’s electricity supply industry and its own performance, looking to inflows of investment to install more generation capacity across southern Africa and for the pool’s trading mechanisms to gain momentum

Mozambique | Botswana | Lesotho | DR Congo | Angola | Namibia | Malawi | eSwatini (Swaziland) | Zimbabwe | Tanzania | South Africa
Issue 218 - 22 October 2011

SNEL: Management contract tendered again

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The Democratic Republic of Congo government’s Comité de Pilotage de la Réforme des Entreprises Publiques (Copirep) has again tendered for a World Bank Group (WBG)-financed management contract to run troubled parastatal Société Nationale de l’Electricité (Snel).

DR Congo
Issue 215 - 10 September 2011

Power cuts trigger Snel reshuffle 

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President Joseph Kabila ordered a complete reshuffle at the top of Société Nationale d’Electricité (Snel) on 20 August, following power cuts caused by the lowest water levels for a century in the Congo River. 

DR Congo
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Gabon’s new acreage has brought a fresh wave of interest from the majors, while Italy’s Eni is making a big push in Republic of Congo

DR Congo | Congo Brazzaville | Gabon
Issue 214 - 30 July 2011

Dominion recapitalisation fails

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AIM-listed East Africa player Dominion Petroleum has failed to win shareholder approval for a recapitalisation scheme

Kenya | DR Congo | Uganda | Tanzania
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A shift of donor strategy to develop the mighty Grand Inga scheme through a series of phased projects divided into investor-friendly, bite-sized chunks is intended to move plans for Africa’s biggest hydropower source closer to reality.

DR Congo
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With the African Development Bank (AfDB) and other stakeholders focused on making Grand Inga work as a major boost to the continental economy – making a New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) mega-scheme a reality – Democratic Republic of Congo officials and other sources canvassed by African Energy insisted that plans to build Inga III were going ahead – and that the project need not have a negative impact on water flows and the Grand Inga scheme, as other sources have suggested.

DR Congo