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The new president’s appointment of Mohamed Lamine Fofana as mines minister keeps a familiar face in charge of a key sector that provides 80% of Guinea’s foreign currency earnings

While the government quietly accelerates reforms to counter pressures that have exploded in Tunisia and Egypt, the state energy giant is preparing new management structures that should speed implementation of major projects

Benin national Christian Narcisse Adovèlandé will be the new head of the Lomé, Togo-based Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement (BOAD – West African Development Bank), replacing former World Bank vice president Abdoulaye Bio Tchané, who is running for president in Benin’s upcoming elections.

Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution, which drove Zine El Abidine Ben Ali into exile in Saudi Arabia on 13 January, was the unexpected trigger that has made Arab populations wake up after decades of submission to personalised, autocratic regimes. But it is events in Egypt that will drive how the ‘Arab street’ and those who seek

Although the exact number of casualties has not been independently confirmed, sources in Abyei said more than 20 people had been killed in fighting between the Dinka and Misseriya. The south claims the Khartoum government instigated the fighting to put pressure on negotiations and undermine the secession referendum process, which will deliver a massive majority in favour of secession.

Simba Energy private offering; Cote d’Ivoire’s Eurobond default; UK anti-bribery act postponed

Results for 2010, unveiled by Sonatrach president director-general Nordine Cherouati on 25 January, show the Algerian state company benefiting from higher prices:

The Government of Southern Sudan will not compromise in negotiations with the north over the status of Abyei, and is prepared to take up arms again if the impasse continues

Aseng Production Company Ltd, a joint venture between SBM Offshore and state oil company GEPetrol, has secured a

Having apparently resolved its differences with the Ghana government, Kosmos Energy is planning a New York share listing. The privately held company, whose main investors are Warburg Pincus and Blackstone Capital Partners

It hardly rates on the scale of the drama that a courageous Tunisian population delivered to the world in ousting Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, but manoeuvrings by members of the former presidential circle to allow them to profit handsomely with little effort from the award of contracts for a gas-fired

Faced with the prospect of becoming a brand-new state with virtually no infrastructure, the South Sudan authorities are hoping to attract private finance for an ambitious programme of hydropower development

China has agreed a loan of 513m yuan ($78m) to Senegal to finance the rehabilitation and expansion of the power distribution grid in the Dakar region

African Energy has seen an early copy of the investors’ guide to the new mining bill, which is due to be published by the Ministry of Energy and Mining at the end of January and distributed to companies.

Energy financiers had their moments in 2010, but the power sector remains under-financed, writes Kevin Godier