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President Emmerson Mnangagwa fired energy and power development minister Fortune Chasi on 14 August after only 15 months in office, accusing him of “conducting government business in a manner incompatible with presidential expectations”.

The British government has generated further controversy over its foreign aid policy by announcing that its overseas development assistance (ODA) budget will be reduced to 0.5% of gross national income (GNI) on a temporary basis to take account of the domestic strains from the coronavirus pandemic.

Libya will experience its worst power supply deficit during the summer peak, expected in the first week of August and coinciding with the final week of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Load may exceed capacity by as much as 1,000MW unless urgent measures are taken, deputy minister for electricity and renewable energy Mohammed Ekhlat told African Energy in Tripoli. This is the maximum estimate. Other industry sources, such as General National Congress (GNC) energy commission vice chairman Abdulkarim El Gayash have said the system may be overloaded by as much as 800MW.

A boom is expected for the extractives sector, highlighted by first gas supply from the Coral Sul reservoir off Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado coast, but locals are demanding a fairer share of the benefits and the authorities are struggling to define what they mean by ‘local content’.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on 5 July that the framework, which sets the agenda for the governments ‘just energy transition’ policy, had been finalised, five months after a public consultation document was published.

The British government, which remains COP president until November 2022 when Egypt takes over, is expected to take a more than usually active approach to climate change diplomacy over the next 12 months. One reason for this is that the United Kingdom has had an unusually long time to focus on the issue and it has an incentive to keep doing so.

Saudi Arabia Newsletter: It is perhaps too soon to know whether King Hussein's recent visit to SaudiArabia did anything to alter the kingdom's traditional full support for Yasser Arafat's leadership of the PLO.

Azito developer Globeleq is keen to invest further in Côte d’Ivoire’s power sector with “particular emphasis on renewable energy projects”, chief executive Mike Scholey told African Energy.