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The total earmarked for energy projects to be funded by European Union (EU) development co-operation has risen tenfold for 2014-20 compared to 2008-13, from E350m ($382m) to E3.5bn, of which E2bn will be spent in Africa. The highest amounts are for Zambia (over E240m), and Rwanda (E200m), followed by Tanzania (E180m) and Burundi (E105m), although a European Commission source stressed that these are indicative figures. The source told African Energy that energy funds spent in Africa by the EU will come from four sources: countries’ individual National Indicative Programmes (NIPs) financed by the 11th European Development Fund (EDF), the Regional Indicative Programmes, the PanAfrican Programme and an Intra-ACP Programme covering African, Caribbean and Pacific states.

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President Alpha Condé’s election offers the prospect of democratic rule, but he faces an enormous task in developing his troubled state to meet voters’ and investors’ expectations, writes Thalia Griffiths, recently in Conakry

Guinea
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The World Bank Group (WBG), African Development Bank (AfDB) and other big donors have fallen in behind the African Union and regional governments who see mega-projects as the key to overcoming sub-Saharan Africa’s alarmingly low levels of energy access. Environmental protests, which did so much to stymie big hydro projects in the last decade, have been drowned out as a range of stakeholders have come to believe that only Grand Inga and other big hydro schemes can allow Africa to overcome its gaping energy deficits. Such is President Jacob Zuma’s enthusiasm to put flesh on the bones of his agreements with President Joseph Kabila that South Africa has been “camping out” in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to secure a leading role in developing the estimated 40GW Grand Inga HEP dam, one close observer of the process said.

DR Congo
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The recent Moody’s downgrading of Eskom’s credit rating echoes the worsening external view on South Africa rather than reflecting specific worries about the power parastatal, writes Kevin Godier

South Africa
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Concerns have been raised about plans to revise minerals legislation that would see the disbanding of the regulatory Petroleum Agency SA and give the state the right to a free carried interest in new contracts. The draft Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Amendment 2012, which is chiefly aimed at reforming the mining industry, delegates all functions currently exercised by the Petroleum Agency to ‘regional managers’ of the Department of Mineral Resources who are responsible for handling mining applications.

South Africa
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Oil means everything to Puntlanders, who believe its discovery will lift the Somali region’s people out of poverty, transform the economy into a Dubai-style success story and unite all Somalis.

Somalia
Issue 259 - 26 July 2013

Congo B: SOCO well


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Operator SOCO International spudded the LDKEM-1 exploration well on the Lideka East Marine prospect on Marine XI on 20 July. The well will test the potential of a post-salt structure of the Sendji Formation in the Lower Congo Basin, updip from the 2009 Lideka Marine-1 well, which had oil shows. The well is expected to take 30-35 days to reach the target depth.

Congo Brazzaville
Issue 189 - 26 June 2010

Bashir appoints SPLM oil minister

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President Omar Al-Bashir has split the Ministry of Energy and Mining into three, installing southerner Lual Acuek Deng as oil minister

South Sudan | Sudan
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Personalised politics cloud deals and jeopardise development. In many African countries, highly personalised politics, weak leadership, lack of institutional capacity and outright graft all work to undermine progress towards building efficient, modern energy industries. Despite real progress made by governments, companies and other stakeholders in the past decade, many industries and deals lack transparency and political risks

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Few countries in sub-Saharan Africa have impressed investors, donors and governments as much as President Paul Kagame’s Rwanda. With a development strategy crafted in co-ordination with advisers such as former UK prime minister Tony Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative, Kagame has rebuilt Rwanda, making Kigali one of Africa’s best-functioning capitals and attracting infrastructure and other commercial investments. As one long-time Central Africa-watcher expresses it: “Rwanda has taken the uniquely organised structures of the pre-colonial Tutsi kingdoms and transposed that to a modern state.”

Rwanda
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The questions facing electricity sector strategists and their international and local partners have changed dramatically as Egypt has shifted from severe undersupply to oversupply. However, analysis of installed plants and the project pipeline to 2022 and beyond captured by African Energy Live Data suggests the underlying structure of power generation – dominated by state-owned gas-fired plants – will change only slowly, despite the huge amount of extra capacity being added to the system.

Egypt
Issue 252 - 19 April 2013

South Sudan resumes oil exports

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After 15 months of impasse, Sudan’s Ministry of Oil has announced that initial quantities of crude from South Sudan have reached its territory in line with a co-operation agreement signed on 12 March. Under-secretary at the Ministry of Oil Awad Abdul Fatah told AFP that “we’re really in a hurry to do things quickly” and “we’d like for the money to start flowing as soon as possible”. South Sudan suspended oil production in January 2012 in protest at unreasonable transit fees charged on its exports on the way to Port Sudan by the government in Khartoum. The blockage has cost both countries heavily.

South Sudan | Sudan
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Plans are moving ahead for the most radical overhaul of Nigeria’s hydrocarbons industry in 40 years, according to the draft report seen by Our Gulf of Guinea Correspondent. Also in African Energy, Eleanor Gillespie in Abuja and Leonard Lawal in Lagos report on joint ventures and other aspects of the reform promised across the industry, which may not be to the taste of many IOCs but fulfill a need for real change in Nigeria.

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While renewables projects in North Africa have been making progress – led by Moroccan solar development agency Masen’s 125MW first concentrated solar power phase of the 500MW Ouarzazate scheme – the most highly publicised, ambitious scheme of all, the Desertec Industrial Initiative (Dii), is struggling to convince sceptics it can revolutionise patterns of electricity generation south of the Mediterranean and of supply within the European Union area.

Morocco
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National Oil Corporation (NOC) has announced plans to open an office in Houston – its first outside Libya – as part of what it describes as an “ambitious $20bn spending programme to restore production capacity over the next three years”. Announcing the plans during a visit to the US, chairman Mustafa Sanalla said the decision was motivated by US support for “NOC’s integrity and the unity of the state of Libya”. He said it would “put America’s world-class equipment manufacturers and oil field service providers at the centre of our purchasing strategy and…

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