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Ethiopia in EITI, Guinea temporarily out; Big US fund divests Sudan related interests; French loan for Medupi turbines

African Energy’s Atlas 2010 charts patterns of activity in key sectors of the continent’s energy industry in maps and analysis that give an overview of recent developments and look ahead to trends in 2010 and beyond. The project has been led by cartographer David Burles, news editor Thalia Griffiths and publishing director Nick Carn

Not for the first time, the availability of financing for African energy players was split in 2009, between commercial banks seeking structured oil deals and power projects largely dependent on official funders, writes Kevin Godier

AFRICAN BANKING CORPORATION: AfDB credit; SONELGAZ: Algerian parastatal finance debate rolls on

AFDB: African Infrastructure Investment Fund stake; ANGOLA: IMF approves $1.4bn stand-by; ECOBANK: IFC investment

SOUTH AFRICA: French grant for carbon capture; SASOL: Norway CCS tie-up

Two recent long-term bond issues to support the Kenyan power sector have demonstrated the potential capital markets support for sub-Saharan borrowers. Bankers who spoke to Kevin Godier saw an opportunity for a spate of new issues to follow as a new market matures, stimulated by global demand

Gulf Of Guinea Commission meeting; China Development Bank opens Egypt office; Liberia EITI compliant; Botswana ONDD downgrade

Gazprom has announced a start date for work on the long-awaited Kudu gas-to-power project, and NamPower has raised more funds in the domestic market, boosting confidence in Namibia’s ability to meet domestic demand and play a significant role in the regional industry, write Thalia Griffiths in Cape Town and Kevin Godier

The European Investment Bank is lining up a €35m loan for Communauté Electrique du Bénin to build 308km of 161kV lines and refurbish a further 289km of 161kV lines and eight substations. Appraisal is under way for a loan seen as necessary to avoid major power supply disruptions and to extend the reach and quality of transmission infrastructure in Benin and neighbouring Togo.

Mogadishu-based Transitional Federal Government (TFG) prime minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke has said that all contracts, including energy contracts, signed by the semi-autonomous Republic of Puntland,

In a promising move for peace in the Niger Delta, rebel groups have reinstated a ceasefire signed in July to pursue further talks with the government. The key to ending the conflict and reaching a compromise is that the government addresses Niger Delta inhabitants’ most pressing grievance – a more proportionate distribution of oil and gas revenues from the region, which account for approximately 80% of government revenue.

With commercial bank credit much diminished as a result of the global credit crunch, the use of medium- to long-term export credit agency insurance facilities to develop sub-Saharan projects in energy and other sectors looks set for an upturn, writes Kevin Godier

Belgium’s Office National du Ducroire/Nationale Delcrederedienst (ONDD) has downgraded several sub-Saharan countries this year because of their short-term political risk, according to country analyst Inge Lambrechts.

Cover Energy AIM listing; Support for high-speed telecoms; World Bank lends $50m for infrastructure; China may develop Lamu deep-water port