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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

There is intense speculation that further change will follow at Sonatrach, with former pipelines vice president (VP) Abdelhamid Zerguine said to be in line to replace unpopular president director-general (PDG) Nordine Cherouati

The state oil company may have lost its boss (see Downstream), but Namibian officials are bullish about prospects in the upstream, with progress reported on the Kudu gas project and Chariot Oil & Gas announcing a big increase in its gross mean unrisked prospective resources (to 20bn bbls) in its eight offshore

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

There is intense speculation that further change will follow at Sonatrach, with former pipelines vice president (VP) Abdelhamid Zerguine – who now heads the Algerian state energy

Operator Noble Energy has launched production from the Aseng Field in ofshore Block I

The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award the 2011 Peace Prize to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, just four days before the first round of Liberia’s presidential elections, was a controversial one. In her first term, Johnson Sirleaf did a remarkable job of launching the revival of a country emerging from civil war and economic chaos, but her decision to seek a second term was controversial as she had pledged to serve just one term

UK-based G4 Industries has cancelled plans for a controversial 28,000ha jatropha project at Tana River Delta, citing environmental concerns

Analyst sentiment towards London Stock Exchange-listed Afren was given a fillip with positive newsflow from its behind-schedule Ebok development. In a research note following a field trip, Jefferies International reported “increased confidence that the delay issues are behind” the Ebok project

The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award the 2011 Peace Prize to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, just four days before the first round of Liberia’s presidential elections, was a controversial one. In her first term, Johnson Sirleaf did a remarkable job of launching the revival of a country emerging from civil war and economic chaos, but her decision

Renewable energy developer Compagnie de Développement des Energies Renouvelables (Coder) is seeking bids for the supply of generation equipment for the Chutes de l’Imperatrice and Chutes de Fe2 hydroelectric power projects.

The Energy Commission has asked for expressions of interest (EoIs) for grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) or wind projects in the Northern, Upper East, Upper West and Volta regions

There have been too many false dawns as South Africa realities have failed to live up to the rhetoric of electricity supply industry liberalisation or diversification into renewables, but the 53 bids received by the Department of Energy (DoE) in the first round of bidding to build renewable power plants have raised hopes that major privately financed wind and solar projects will finally go ahead

Undaunted by the latest salvo in the long-running border dispute between Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, companies active in the West African Transform Margin are pushing ahead with exploration. But emulating Tullow’s record is proving harder than several IOCs had hoped

The Climate Investment Funds, set up by a group of major multilaterals