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Since early October, workers have been planting 5,000 to 10,000 trees a day of 35 different species including fast-growing ones such as acacia, eucalyptus and pine at Ibi, on a 4,500 hectare area in the Bateke highlands, some 150km from Kinshasa, between the Ufimi and Duale rivers.

DR CONGO: Oil Ministry to meter production; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: CNOOC rig contract; ETHIOPIA: Aero survey plans; LIBYA: More RWE discoveries; LIBYA: Hellenic sells up; LIBYA: Punj Lloyd rig contract; NAMIBIA: Seismicl plans; SIERRA LEONE: Elixir hits snag on SL-4; TUNISIA: Ashtart upgrade contract

Energy Minister Salomon Banamuhere Baliene and Société Nationale d’Electricité (Snel) chief executive Daniel Yengo Massampu have attended a ceremony marking the start of rehabilitation work on the Mobayi-Mbongo hydropower dam on the Ubangi River in Equator province.

Libya Oil Holding (LOH) has announced plans to build and operate a 140km oil pipeline between Muanda on the Atlantic coast and the Congo River port of Matadi. The pipeline will connect Matadi to a floating terminal near Muanda, allowing supertankers to offload their cargo and minimising disruptions in the supply of petroleum products to Kinshasa.

ANGOLA: Wärtsilä to power cement works; ANGOLA: New capacity; DR CONGO: Snel seeks study of Nzilo 2 HEP; MADAGASCAR: Sinohydro contrac; MOROCCO: Bidders for Safi IPP coal plant named; RWANDA: Bhel to build Nyabarongo; SENEGAL: Nuclear talks with Sarko; SOUTH AFRICA: Voith Siemens to equip Ingula

WBG post-conflict funding; IFC microfinance programme; EADB Chinese credit; World Bank loan for ONE

Cabinda South find, Lukoil plans, Lotshi survey, RWE gas find in North El Amriya, Woodside find in Libya; Sweden’s PA Resources has spudded a second well on the Didon field; Eurogas drills on Sfax permit

DRC/ZAMBIA: Power supply to copper mines restored; EGYPT: Bids for nuclear consultancy; UGANDA: Nuclear bill passed

The various projects’ supporters continue to lobby hard for a major investment at Inga, but on the ground things are not moving smoothly in DRC’s potentially mighty hydropower facility (AE 137/1).

DRC and a Chinese consortium have signed a multi-billion dollar convention covering mining and infrastructure projects.

President Joseph Kabila’s government has given one of the two blocks previously awarded to Tullow Oil to a consortium including PetroSA.

The World Energy Council is the latest player to take on the task of bringing stakeholders together to get the Inga projects off the ground. Support from big potential clients like BHP Billiton, innovative financing proposals and a big political push may mean the Grand Inga dream becomes reality, despite all the problems associated with working in DRC, writes Thalia Griffiths.

USTDA, transport initiative; IDA financing; World Bank finance for regional project; Chinese loan

A look at the latest attempts to bring stakeholders in the Inga projects together

The DR Congo government committee overseeing the reform of state companies is preparing a diagnostic report on Société Nationale d’Electricité (Snel) with the aim of setting out a plan for its restructuring