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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.

Militants in the Niger Delta have agreed to extend their ceasefire by 30 days but there has been little improvement in the situation on the ground. Some militants have surrendered their weapons in public ceremonies, but one source in the Delta told African Energy: “it’s just tokens, more guns are still being hidden in the creeks.”

Gazprom’s joint venture with Nigeria has boosted a project that continues to attract the backing of governments and IOCs despite continuing doubts over its commercial viability

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

Why build a pipeline across several borders and through potentially volatile regions when you could instead export the gas as LNG to a choice of markets? John Hamilton in Paris and Jon Marks examine the latest efforts to build momentum behind the TSGP.

Saudi/Canadian Petrol One Corporation has opted not to proceed with its slightly improbable project to build a 450,000 b/d greenfield refinery and petrochemical plant in the Maradi region of south-central Niger (AE 150/18).

CAMEROON: Andritz VA Tech Hydro wins refurb order; EGYPT: AfDB loan for Ain Sokhna; EGYPT: Bechtel gets nuclear design and consultancy contract; EGYPT: Transmission order for KEC; GHANA: Gas-to-power plans; MOZAMBIQUE: EU-backed capacity-building TA work; NAMIBIA: NamPower tenders Ruacana IV civil works; NAMIBIA: EIB/EU support for NamPower, Caprivi interconnector; NIGER: Areva to mine Imouraren uranium; NIGERIA: Business lobby plans 30MW wind farm; SUDAN: Talks on co-operation with Iran; TOGO: Opic funding for Lomé plant

The Haut Commissariat a l’Aménagement de la Vallée du Niger invites pre-qualification applications by 2 February for civil construction and hydro-mechanical equipment for the 125MW Kandadji hydropower project on the Niger River (AE 150/10).

Steam turbines for Ein El Sokhna; Vattenfall Power Consultant wins WAPP contract; ADF funds Conakry power project; Morocco seeks bids for wind, solar, PV and hydro; Linklaters wins Mphanda Nkuwa contract; Sweco wins Maputo grid contract; ADF backs Kandadji; Consultants sought for first joint hydro project in Nile Basin, ESBI wins US consultancy work; Southern finds mean increased gas for Ste

Saudi/Canadian Petrol One Corporation says it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government to build a 450,000 b/d refinery and petrochemical processing plant in the Maradi region of south-central Niger.

State company Société Nationale de Gaz et d’Electricité (Sonelgaz) plans AD230bn ($3.3bn) investment in 2008-17 in the national gas transport infrastructure to develop a local market, senior officials said.

NIGER: Badea backs Kandadji HEP; SUDAN: More Kuwaiti funding for Merowe

It was not just his much-vaunted commitment to African development that led Gordon Brown to offer already overstretched UK forces’ support for President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s efforts to stabilise the Niger Delta. Brown signalled that he might provide at least the sort of military training commitment that

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has produced an atlas of ‘before and after’ satellite images documenting environmental change in Africa. Some of the changes, like the shrinking of Lake Chad, now one tenth of its size 40 years ago, and falling water levels in Lake Victoria, are already well recorded, while others, like the disappearance of glaciers in Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains vital to the region’s

Tuareg and Toubou rebels have denounced an agreement with a Chinese company to explore the Agadem block in eastern Niger and build a refinery and pipeline, and warned of reprisals if development goes ahead (AE 140/11).