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Energy ministers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Kenya have established a company to develop a pipeline to run from Lake Edward on the DRC-Uganda border to Kampala, via the Ugandan town of Hoima, close to Lake Albert, then to Eldoret on the Kenyan border, and on to Nairobi and Mombasa

The Democratic Republic of Congo has abandoned plans for an offshore Joint Development Zone for oil and gas exploration, according to Angola's ambassador in Kinshasa. Emilio José de Carvalho told a news conference on 1 November that now the DRC had submitted an application to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to extend its territorial waters beyond the 200-mile limit,

Energy minister Gilbert Tshiongo Tshibinkubula Wa Tumba and mines minister Martin Kabwelulu Labilo sat side by side at Spintelligent’s annual IPAD DRC conference, in Kinshasa on 27 October, to announce a new ‘strategic partnership’ along with the Ministry of Transport. Mining drives the DRC economy, but it cannot function without the energy and transport infrastructure Congo so lacks.

The government is pressing ahead with a production-sharing agreement in Virunga National Park, North Kivu, despite repeated warnings from Unesco and environmentalists.

A request for developers to prequalify DRC government revives Inga III with BHP's to build the Inga III hydropower dam opens a new chapter in the protracted saga of efforts to produce more electricity from the world-scale hydro resource on the Congo river. Having waited years for tender documents to emerge, the government has set an extremely ambitious schedule for potential developers to bid, ahead of DRC's election year, writes Jon Marks in Kinshasa

ALGERIA: Petroceltic plans Ain Tsila appraisal; ANGOLA: New 15/06 find for Eni; ANGOLA: KBR wins Clov contract; DR CONGO: Soco drilling; EGYPT: Crosco provides rig for INA well; GUINEA-BISSAU: Svenska 3D survey; KENYA: Cove completes farm-in; NIGERIA: Ebok field sail-away ceremony; ERHC ENERGY: Registered direct offering raises $2m; GE: Dresser acquisition; PROSAFE/BW: Nigeria extensions, merger

The ramifications of President Joseph Kabila Kabange’s decision to remove the First Quantum Minerals (FQM)-led Kolwezi Tailings copper and cobalt project and Frontier copper mine in Katanga province from their developers go ever deeper.

Italy’s Eni has expanded its central African footprint by moving into the Democratic Republic of Congo with a farm-in agreement with Surestream Petroleum to acquire 55% and operatorship in the Ndunda Block.

The US Senate has passed a new bill on resource transparency that will require oil, gas and mining companies registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to publicly disclose their tax and revenue payments to governments around the world.

Soco Exploration & Production DRC has agreed to farm out a 20% interest in the onshore Nganzi Block to Japan’s Inpex Corporation. Drilling has begun on the first well, Nganga, in a three-well exploration drilling programme.

A pattern is emerging in the way big resources contracts are being reallocated to unknown companies that the authorities say meet their criteria for fit and proper partners criteria

DR CONGO: Kisangani grid tender; GABON: World Bank seeks power sector review; GHANA: Renewables tariff consultancy; MOZAMBIQUE: EIB funding for energy development; SENEGAL: Juwi installs PV plants; SENEGAL: Senelec seeks equipment, consultants; SOUTH AFRICA: World Bank support for IPP programme; SOUTH AFRICA: GE to supply Transnet

The politically complex redevelopment of the Ruzizi River cascade’s power schemes seems finally to be taking shape, writes David Slater

While President Joseph Kabila Kabange has secured his political life insurance by giving stakes in eastern Congo’s sought-after Albertine Graben blocks to companies connected to South African President Jacob Zuma’s family, it is not such good news for Tullow Oil, which signed a contract for the same Lake Albert blocks 1 and 2 in 2006.

Several projects are lining up technology partners and financiers in a move to generate electricity and stabilise Lake Kivu’s volatile methane gas.