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SouthWest Energy is on the verge of clinching two blocks in Ethiopia and has made some progress in its other acreage

The Climate Investment Funds, set up by a group of major multilaterals, has approved in principle a total of $40m in near-zero-interest loans and grants for Mali to scale up solar PV, mini-hydro and biofuel technologies

While much has been made of the push by Gulf-based companies into African and other frontier exploration and production (E&P) territories, establishing themselves in unfamiliar environments has proved more problematic than many thought. One example is Qatar Petroleum

Almost exactly a year after the board suspended him and ordered an independent audit of the loss-making parastatal’s activities, National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor) managing director Sam Beukes has been dismissed

SouthWest Energy is on the verge of clinching two blocks in Ethiopia and has made some progress in its other acreage. The Hong Kong-registered company run by Ethiopian chairman and chief executive Tewodros Ashenafi is in the final stages

Petroleum commissioner Ernest Rubondo has told the ad hoc parliamentary committee investigating the oil sector that “close to 80” applications had been received from international oil companies looking to secure blocks in Uganda’s open acreage. Rubondo said companies were targeting blocks,

The state oil company may have lost its boss, 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 blocks

Recent geological revelations offshore East Africa have sparked interest in French territory Juan de Nova and the Seychelles, where a number of farm-in opportunities beckon. But political risk remains an obstacle to progress in the region’s historical focus for exploration, Madagascar. While Tanzania and Mozambique hold out the prospect for major gas developments, the islands may have longer to

The government’s attempts to disregard parliament’s oil resolutions, and to weaken the capacity of a corruption probe committee, have met with considerable opposition, underlining the capacity of domestic politics to complicate Uganda’s passage to becoming an oil producer, writes Adrian J Browne

The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Programme (Nelsap) has invited expressions of interest (EoIs) by 23 November from consultants to serve as owner’s engineer for the 90MW Rusumo Falls hydropower project on the Kagera River.

The government’s attempts to disregard parliament’s oil resolutions, and to weaken the capacity of a corruption probe committee, have met with considerable opposition, underlining the capacity of domestic politics to complicate Uganda’s passage to becoming an oil producer

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

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

Addax and Oryx Group subsidiary Addax Bioenergy SA has broken ground for the construction of an ethanol refinery and biomass-fuelled power plant, due to become operational in 2013, at its sugarcane plantation development near Makeni in central Sierra Leone

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