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Doubts are being raised over São Tomé e Príncipe’s ability to handle oil licensing after the tiny island state was thrown out of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, writes Thalia Griffiths

New Era newspaper described black economic empowerment (BEE) entrepreneur Knowledge Katti as “one of the fastest growing [exclusive prospecting licence] EPL millionaires in the country”. Born in 1973 and raised by his grandmother in the Walvis Bay township of Kuisebmond, Katti came to international attention in 2008 when Canada’s Universal Power Corporation (UPC) announced

National Oil Corporation has a new management committee. The General People's Committee (GPC - government) decided on 13 July to restructure the national company's executive board, replacing three of its members with four newcomers, all but one of whom has virtually no public profile.

A pattern is emerging in the way big resources contracts are being reallocated to unknown companies that the authorities say meet their criteria for fit and proper partners criteria

Pressure from Democratic Party Senator Frank Lautenberg and other congressmen on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to open an investigation into BP 's role in lobbying for the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi has added

Aspects of Dov Zerah’s appointment to head Agence Française de Développement (AFD) are controversial in domestic French political terms

There is concern that President Sarkozy’s appointment of an outspoken new head of AFD could lead Paris back towards its old focus on key allies and politically targeted financial flows

With potentially difficult elections beckoning as African Energy went to press, progress on an impressive roster of potential hydroelectric projects remains subject to Guinea’s volatile politics

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

President Joseph Kabila Kabange has finally approved all outstanding oil contracts, according to a presidential decree published in the official gazette dated 22 June. But while closing one set of controversies over resources contract awards, Kabila has opened up another with the decision to award Lake Albert blocks 1 and 2 to two obscure British Virgin Islands-based outfits called Caprikat Ltd and Foxwhelp Ltd,

Two new committees to spearhead and monitor reform and efforts to unify contracts reveal the president’s focus on achieving stable power supply.

The new Algerian energy and mines minister was born in the eastern city of Batna on 2 October 1941. Many Algerians will appreciate not having another minister from the west, where President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and many of his most loyal supporters come from.

The Nigerian-German Energy Partnership's Nigerian chair is influential former diplomat Alhaji Hassan Tukur, who on 17 May became President Goodluck Jonathan's new principal secretary

Goodluck Jonathan and his allies have proved ruthless in their efforts to reshape the Nigerian energy industry, with the president firing the second NNPC head of his short tenure, while his crackdown on corruption is removing some powerful PDP figures opposing his bid for a second term

Algeria and its energy industry are transfixed by drift and inertia as anti-corruption enquiries continue, energy minister Chakib Khelil is put under pressure and President Bouteflika’s intentions remain unclear