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Africa Tech Festival 2024 saw some pushback against the traditional beliefs around affordable connectivity.

How our leaders are solving Africa's smartphone struggle #AfricaTechFestival

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Fiyinfolu Okedare is director at Forvis Mazars in Nigeria

Big benefits of investing in Africa's upstream sector

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Chanda Nxumalo, director, Harmattan Renewables

The role of blockchain in Africa's energy transition

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Covid-19 has accelerated the pace of energy transitions

Covid-19 has accelerated the pace of energy transitions

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Energy resources can spark Africa's economic growth

Energy resources can spark Africa's economic growth

NJ Ayuk 4 Nov 2020

Bizcommunity and NSP Consultants congratulate BizListing winners!

Bizcommunity and NSP Consultants congratulate BizListing winners!

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How fracking plans could affect shared water resources in Southern Africa

How fracking plans could affect shared water resources in Southern Africa

Surina Esterhuyse 19 Oct 2020

Verner Ayukegba, Africa Energy Chamber

Germany looks to Mozambique for gas needs

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Photo: Thor Explorations

Walking the ESG talk in the Nigerian mining industry

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Getting real about virtual events

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Nomalungelo Gina, deputy minister, trade, industry and competition

Government pledges support for Mozambique gas projects

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Professor Njuguna Ndung’u

Business as usual in post-pandemic recovery will only reinforce economic hardship

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Lagos only gets about 10% of its electricity needs, leaving its 20-million inhabitants to their own devices. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

What Nigeria's poor power supply really costs and how a hybrid system could work for business

Samuel Ayokunle Olówósejéjé 23 Sep 2020

NJ Ayuk, executive chairman, African Energy Chamber

LNG projects could transform Mozambique - if Western environmentalists don't interfere

NJ Ayuk 21 Sep 2020

Illicit gold thrives in DRC

18 Sep 2020

Zuneid Yousuf, chairman, African Green Resources.

Why the mining sector is vital to green industry

Zuneid Yousuf 17 Sep 2020

Africa needs to do a better job to attract exploration investment

1 Sep 2020

Residents of Lamu, Kenya, accuse the government of ignoring their concerns and going ahead with the construction of a huge port. TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images

Review of nine African 'blue economy' projects shows what works and what doesn't

Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood 12 Aug 2020

How the Grand Renaissance Dam might spark basin-wide water cooperation

How the Grand Renaissance Dam might spark basin-wide water cooperation

Ashok Swain 3 Aug 2020

Bronwyn Williams stars in Pulp Non-Fiction on Bizcommunity

Bronwyn Williams stars in Pulp Non-Fiction on Bizcommunity

Bizcommunity.com 30 Jul 2020

The hydropower potential at the Grand Inga site on the Congo River, the largest remaining untapped hydropower potential in the world.

Why wind and solar would offer the DRC and South Africa better energy deals than Inga 3

Grace C Wu & Ranjit Deshmukh 24 Jul 2020

The Grand Renaissance Dam: what's at stake and what could break the deadlock

The Grand Renaissance Dam: what's at stake and what could break the deadlock

Mahemud Tekuya 23 Jul 2020

Africa's distributed renewable energy sector still dominated by foreign players

Africa's distributed renewable energy sector still dominated by foreign players

21 Jul 2020

De-risking investments to boost Africa's renewable energy transition

De-risking investments to boost Africa's renewable energy transition

16 Jul 2020

Methane gas extraction on Lake Kivu. Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Rwanda extracts methane from Lake Kivu for electricity. How it works

Natacha Tofield-Pasche 16 Jul 2020

Toufik Khitous, business development manager for North Africa, Wärtsilä Energy Business

How Egypt banks on renewables to meet expected surge of energy demand

Toufik Khitous 15 Jul 2020

Electric vehicles could add to carbon emissions and load shedding: but there's a solution

Electric vehicles could add to carbon emissions and load shedding: but there's a solution

MJ (Thinus) Booysen and Mark Apperley 10 Jul 2020

Trilateral talks resume on Grand Renaissance hydroelectric project

Trilateral talks resume on Grand Renaissance hydroelectric project

8 Jul 2020

Post-Covid-19: Delivering sustainable energy across Africa

Post-Covid-19: Delivering sustainable energy across Africa

Siyabonga Mbanjwa 30 Jun 2020

Kibali Mine is fully automated. Image: Barrick Gold Corporation

Covid is forcing the mining sector to adopt technology

23 Jun 2020

The Nigerian Naira has been under a lot pressure lately
Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Nigeria's post-Covid-19 recovery plan has some merit. But it misses the mark

Tolu Olarewaju 22 Jun 2020

Angola more exposed to financial crisis

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Craig Lebrau, Lebrau Press 2 Jul 2020

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Chanda Nxumalo, director, Harmattan Renewables

The role of blockchain in Africa's energy transition

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Covid-19 has accelerated the pace of energy transitions

Covid-19 has accelerated the pace of energy transitions

12 Nov 2020

Energy resources can spark Africa's economic growth

Energy resources can spark Africa's economic growth

NJ Ayuk 4 Nov 2020

Bizcommunity and NSP Consultants congratulate BizListing winners!

Bizcommunity and NSP Consultants congratulate BizListing winners!

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How fracking plans could affect shared water resources in Southern Africa

How fracking plans could affect shared water resources in Southern Africa

Surina Esterhuyse 19 Oct 2020

Verner Ayukegba, Africa Energy Chamber

Germany looks to Mozambique for gas needs

16 Oct 2020

Photo: Thor Explorations

Walking the ESG talk in the Nigerian mining industry

16 Oct 2020

Getting real about virtual events

Getting real about virtual events

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Nomalungelo Gina, deputy minister, trade, industry and competition

Government pledges support for Mozambique gas projects

30 Sep 2020

Professor Njuguna Ndung’u

Business as usual in post-pandemic recovery will only reinforce economic hardship

Njuguna Ndung'u 28 Sep 2020

Lagos only gets about 10% of its electricity needs, leaving its 20-million inhabitants to their own devices. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

What Nigeria's poor power supply really costs and how a hybrid system could work for business

Samuel Ayokunle Olówósejéjé 23 Sep 2020

NJ Ayuk, executive chairman, African Energy Chamber

LNG projects could transform Mozambique - if Western environmentalists don't interfere

NJ Ayuk 21 Sep 2020

Illicit gold thrives in DRC

18 Sep 2020

Zuneid Yousuf, chairman, African Green Resources.

Why the mining sector is vital to green industry

Zuneid Yousuf 17 Sep 2020

Africa needs to do a better job to attract exploration investment

1 Sep 2020

Residents of Lamu, Kenya, accuse the government of ignoring their concerns and going ahead with the construction of a huge port. TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images

Review of nine African 'blue economy' projects shows what works and what doesn't

Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood 12 Aug 2020

How the Grand Renaissance Dam might spark basin-wide water cooperation

How the Grand Renaissance Dam might spark basin-wide water cooperation

Ashok Swain 3 Aug 2020

Bronwyn Williams stars in Pulp Non-Fiction on Bizcommunity

Bronwyn Williams stars in Pulp Non-Fiction on Bizcommunity

Bizcommunity.com 30 Jul 2020

The hydropower potential at the Grand Inga site on the Congo River, the largest remaining untapped hydropower potential in the world.

Why wind and solar would offer the DRC and South Africa better energy deals than Inga 3

Grace C Wu & Ranjit Deshmukh 24 Jul 2020

The Grand Renaissance Dam: what's at stake and what could break the deadlock

The Grand Renaissance Dam: what's at stake and what could break the deadlock

Mahemud Tekuya 23 Jul 2020

Africa's distributed renewable energy sector still dominated by foreign players

Africa's distributed renewable energy sector still dominated by foreign players

21 Jul 2020

De-risking investments to boost Africa's renewable energy transition

De-risking investments to boost Africa's renewable energy transition

16 Jul 2020

Methane gas extraction on Lake Kivu. Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Rwanda extracts methane from Lake Kivu for electricity. How it works

Natacha Tofield-Pasche 16 Jul 2020

Toufik Khitous, business development manager for North Africa, Wärtsilä Energy Business

How Egypt banks on renewables to meet expected surge of energy demand

Toufik Khitous 15 Jul 2020

Electric vehicles could add to carbon emissions and load shedding: but there's a solution

Electric vehicles could add to carbon emissions and load shedding: but there's a solution

MJ (Thinus) Booysen and Mark Apperley 10 Jul 2020

Trilateral talks resume on Grand Renaissance hydroelectric project

Trilateral talks resume on Grand Renaissance hydroelectric project

8 Jul 2020

Post-Covid-19: Delivering sustainable energy across Africa

Post-Covid-19: Delivering sustainable energy across Africa

Siyabonga Mbanjwa 30 Jun 2020

Kibali Mine is fully automated. Image: Barrick Gold Corporation

Covid is forcing the mining sector to adopt technology

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The Nigerian Naira has been under a lot pressure lately
Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Nigeria's post-Covid-19 recovery plan has some merit. But it misses the mark

Tolu Olarewaju 22 Jun 2020

Ivanhoe's Kamoa-Kakula Mine in DRC

Commodities, power and capacity building

22 Jun 2020

Barrick's Kibali mine

Miners bump heads over DRC mining code

19 Jun 2020

Kenyan miners have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic Recep Canik/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Covid-19 is underscoring the vulnerable lives of Kenya's artisanal gemstone miners

Judy N Muthuri 18 Jun 2020

Source: Further Africa

Update on Mozambique LNG project

8 Jun 2020

The demand of power in West Africa is rising. Sebastian Sterl

How West Africa can expand power supply and meet climate goals

Sebastian Sterl & Robert Brecha 5 Jun 2020

Ghana is still finding ways of maximising its oil wealth. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Ghana has tried to be responsible with its oil wealth. This is how

Emmanuel Graham, Ismael Ackah, Nathan Andrews & Ransford Edward 29 May 2020

Going underground in Camarines Norte province, Philippines. EPA

Meet the struggling gold miners who are missing out on boom in the precious metal

Sara Geenen & Boris Verbrugge 27 May 2020

#LockdownLessons: Companies putting the grit in integrity

#LockdownLessons: Companies putting the grit in integrity

Bizcommunity.com 26 May 2020

Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project

Mining in a post-Covid DRC will be "survival of the fittest"

22 May 2020

Tom Alweendo, Namibia’s minister of mines and energy.

Namibia's plans for greater energy security

Nicci Botha 18 May 2020

New Angolan budgetary restrictions underline government's determination to support Opec

New Angolan budgetary restrictions underline government's determination to support Opec

13 May 2020