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Egypt notified that Ethiopia has resumed filling of giant dam

Egypt notified that Ethiopia has resumed filling of giant dam

Momen Saeed Atallah, Omar Fahmy and Nafisa Eltahir 6 Jul 2021

A solar plant is seen in Uyayna, north of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia April 10, 2018. Reuters/Faisal Al Nasser

Botswana issues licence for first large scale solar power plant

6 Jul 2021

A woman walks over pipelines crisscrossing Ogoniland in Rivers State, Nigeria September 18, 2020. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde//File Photo

Nigerian lawmakers pass historic oil overhaul bill

Libby George & Camillus Eboh 2 Jul 2021

UN Security Council to meet on Ethiopia dam

UN Security Council to meet on Ethiopia dam

Michelle Nichols 2 Jul 2021

A Zimbabwean miner works underground at Metallon Gold mine in Shamva, about 80 km north of the capital Harare, June 14, 2011. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

Zimbabwe to allow miners to export portion of their gold

29 Jun 2021

Source: © keng po leung

SA, Mozambique state energy firms to increase shareholding in gas pipeline

28 Jun 2021

Sudan rejects Ethiopian plan to fill giant dam a second time - senior official

Sudan rejects Ethiopian plan to fill giant dam a second time - senior official

Khalid Abdelaziz 28 Jun 2021

Source: Getty/Gallo

How mining survived the pandemic

Yaa Agyare-Dwomoh 23 Jun 2021

Glencore says to restart Congo's Mutanda mine towards end of 2021

Hereward Holland 22 Jun 2021

A 1,098 carat diamond, discovered in Botswana and believed to be the third largest gem-quality stone ever to be mined, is seen in this undated handout picture received June 16, 2021. Debswana Diamond Company/Handout via Reuters.

Botswana unearths world's third largest diamond

Brian Benza 17 Jun 2021

Arab states call on UN Security Council to meet over Ethiopian dam

Arab states call on UN Security Council to meet over Ethiopian dam

Mahmoud Mourad, Nayera Abdallah and Raya Jalabi 17 Jun 2021

Australia's Fortescue in talks on giant Congo hydro project

Australia's Fortescue in talks on giant Congo hydro project

Melanie Burton and Hereward Holland 15 Jun 2021

A Galp Energia refinery is seen near Sines, file. Reuters/Rafael Marchante

Exclusive-Galp to hold off on LNG investment until Mozambique ensures security

Sergio Goncalves 15 Jun 2021

Ghana produces excess electricity but its management is inefficient. Wikimedia Commons

Ghana's electricity supply mix has improved, but reliability and cost is still a challenge

Theophilus Acheampong & Bridget O Menyeh 11 Jun 2021

Vale to pay $2.5bn to settle liabilities in Mozambique mine corridor

Marta Nogueira 9 Jun 2021

Exxon surrenders interest in Ghana's offshore oil block

Cooper Inveen 3 Jun 2021

Mozambique launches construction of $1bn power plant, transmission line

Mozambique launches construction of $1bn power plant, transmission line

1 Jun 2021

A police car is being filled with fuel at a gas station next to the sign of Italian energy Eni company in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt February 6, 2021. Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Eni, BP in talks over oil and gas assets in Algeria

Ron Bousso, Dmitry Zhdannikov & Stephen Jewkes 1 Jun 2021

Obuasi Mine. Image: AngloGold Ashanti

AngloGold Ashanti suspends Obuasi output, cost guidance after underground collapse

Tanisha Heiberg 27 May 2021

Glencore to restart operations at Mutanda copper, cobalt mine in 2022

Pratima Desai 19 May 2021

Artisanal miners work at a cobalt mine-pit in Tulwizembe, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo, November 25, 2015. Picture taken November 25, 2015. Reuters/Kenny Katombe/File Photo

Cobalt, Congo and a mass artisanal mining experiment

Andy Home 14 May 2021

#AfricaMonth2021: May Africa prosper

#AfricaMonth2021: May Africa prosper

Bizcommunity.com 7 May 2021

Why renewable energy won't end energy poverty in Zimbabwe

Why renewable energy won't end energy poverty in Zimbabwe

Ellen Fungisai Chipango 30 Apr 2021

Total declares force majeure on Mozambique LNG project

28 Apr 2021

Zimbabwe approves MoU for nuclear energy cooperation with Russia

21 Apr 2021

NJ Ayuk, executive chairman, African Energy Chamber

Greenpeace and Western anti-Africa energy groups take the wrong approach

NJ Ayuk 19 Apr 2021

Ethiopian protestors march down 42nd Street in New York during a “It’s my Dam” protest on March 11, 2021. Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images

Solar and wind power could break the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam deadlock

Sebastian Sterl 19 Apr 2021

Gold is key to the economic survival of millions of Ghanaians. Knut-Erik Helle/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Ghana needs to rethink its small scale mining strategy. Here's how

Richard Kwaku Kumah 16 Apr 2021

Uganda, Tanzania sign $3.5bn oil pipeline deal

Uganda, Tanzania sign $3.5bn oil pipeline deal

14 Apr 2021

Rescuers work in Kamituga, South Kivu, at the entrance of one of the mines which collapsed following torrential rains trapping dozens of artisanal miners in September 2020. Photo by Stringer/AFP via Getty Images

How large miners and states stifle local capital and innovation in DR Congo

Ben Radley & Sara Geenen 13 Apr 2021

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A solar plant is seen in Uyayna, north of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia April 10, 2018. Reuters/Faisal Al Nasser

Botswana issues licence for first large scale solar power plant

6 Jul 2021

A woman walks over pipelines crisscrossing Ogoniland in Rivers State, Nigeria September 18, 2020. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde//File Photo

Nigerian lawmakers pass historic oil overhaul bill

Libby George & Camillus Eboh 2 Jul 2021

UN Security Council to meet on Ethiopia dam

UN Security Council to meet on Ethiopia dam

Michelle Nichols 2 Jul 2021

A Zimbabwean miner works underground at Metallon Gold mine in Shamva, about 80 km north of the capital Harare, June 14, 2011. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

Zimbabwe to allow miners to export portion of their gold

29 Jun 2021

Source: © keng po leung

SA, Mozambique state energy firms to increase shareholding in gas pipeline

28 Jun 2021

Sudan rejects Ethiopian plan to fill giant dam a second time - senior official

Sudan rejects Ethiopian plan to fill giant dam a second time - senior official

Khalid Abdelaziz 28 Jun 2021

Source: Getty/Gallo

How mining survived the pandemic

Yaa Agyare-Dwomoh 23 Jun 2021

Glencore says to restart Congo's Mutanda mine towards end of 2021

Hereward Holland 22 Jun 2021

A 1,098 carat diamond, discovered in Botswana and believed to be the third largest gem-quality stone ever to be mined, is seen in this undated handout picture received June 16, 2021. Debswana Diamond Company/Handout via Reuters.

Botswana unearths world's third largest diamond

Brian Benza 17 Jun 2021

Arab states call on UN Security Council to meet over Ethiopian dam

Arab states call on UN Security Council to meet over Ethiopian dam

Mahmoud Mourad, Nayera Abdallah and Raya Jalabi 17 Jun 2021

Australia's Fortescue in talks on giant Congo hydro project

Australia's Fortescue in talks on giant Congo hydro project

Melanie Burton and Hereward Holland 15 Jun 2021

A Galp Energia refinery is seen near Sines, file. Reuters/Rafael Marchante

Exclusive-Galp to hold off on LNG investment until Mozambique ensures security

Sergio Goncalves 15 Jun 2021

Ghana produces excess electricity but its management is inefficient. Wikimedia Commons

Ghana's electricity supply mix has improved, but reliability and cost is still a challenge

Theophilus Acheampong & Bridget O Menyeh 11 Jun 2021

Vale to pay $2.5bn to settle liabilities in Mozambique mine corridor

Marta Nogueira 9 Jun 2021

Exxon surrenders interest in Ghana's offshore oil block

Cooper Inveen 3 Jun 2021

Mozambique launches construction of $1bn power plant, transmission line

Mozambique launches construction of $1bn power plant, transmission line

1 Jun 2021

A police car is being filled with fuel at a gas station next to the sign of Italian energy Eni company in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt February 6, 2021. Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Eni, BP in talks over oil and gas assets in Algeria

Ron Bousso, Dmitry Zhdannikov & Stephen Jewkes 1 Jun 2021

Obuasi Mine. Image: AngloGold Ashanti

AngloGold Ashanti suspends Obuasi output, cost guidance after underground collapse

Tanisha Heiberg 27 May 2021

Glencore to restart operations at Mutanda copper, cobalt mine in 2022

Pratima Desai 19 May 2021

Artisanal miners work at a cobalt mine-pit in Tulwizembe, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo, November 25, 2015. Picture taken November 25, 2015. Reuters/Kenny Katombe/File Photo

Cobalt, Congo and a mass artisanal mining experiment

Andy Home 14 May 2021

#AfricaMonth2021: May Africa prosper

#AfricaMonth2021: May Africa prosper

Bizcommunity.com 7 May 2021

Why renewable energy won't end energy poverty in Zimbabwe

Why renewable energy won't end energy poverty in Zimbabwe

Ellen Fungisai Chipango 30 Apr 2021

Total declares force majeure on Mozambique LNG project

28 Apr 2021

Zimbabwe approves MoU for nuclear energy cooperation with Russia

21 Apr 2021

NJ Ayuk, executive chairman, African Energy Chamber

Greenpeace and Western anti-Africa energy groups take the wrong approach

NJ Ayuk 19 Apr 2021

Ethiopian protestors march down 42nd Street in New York during a “It’s my Dam” protest on March 11, 2021. Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images

Solar and wind power could break the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam deadlock

Sebastian Sterl 19 Apr 2021

Gold is key to the economic survival of millions of Ghanaians. Knut-Erik Helle/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Ghana needs to rethink its small scale mining strategy. Here's how

Richard Kwaku Kumah 16 Apr 2021

Uganda, Tanzania sign $3.5bn oil pipeline deal

Uganda, Tanzania sign $3.5bn oil pipeline deal

14 Apr 2021

Rescuers work in Kamituga, South Kivu, at the entrance of one of the mines which collapsed following torrential rains trapping dozens of artisanal miners in September 2020. Photo by Stringer/AFP via Getty Images

How large miners and states stifle local capital and innovation in DR Congo

Ben Radley & Sara Geenen 13 Apr 2021

Image: Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering

Eni makes light oil find in Angola's Cuica prospect

8 Apr 2021

Rovuma LNG project

LNG production in Mozambique and the political risk of Islamic militancy

Theo Neethling 30 Mar 2021

Scaling up bioenergy production could substantially raise water stress - new study

Scaling up bioenergy production could substantially raise water stress - new study

12 Mar 2021

Francesco La Camera, DG, Irena

#EnergyIndaba: Private investment critical to meet Africa's energy needs

Nicci Botha 2 Mar 2021

#EnergyIndaba: Radically different approach needed to power Africa

#EnergyIndaba: Radically different approach needed to power Africa

Nicci Botha 1 Mar 2021

Several protests have trailed the privatisation of the power sector in Nigeria. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Nigeria's post-privatisation energy sector is a mess: here are some solutions

Okechukwu Marcellus Ikeanyibe 26 Feb 2021

Grand Inga 3. Photo: Congo Research Group

South Africa can't afford hydropower from Inga 3

Siziwe Mota 23 Feb 2021

Image: African Press Organisation

Safeguarding LNG operations in Mozambique

Charnè Hundermark 22 Feb 2021

Young Angolans protest for bettter living conditions in the capital Luanda in 2020. EFE-EPA

Why being endowed with oil is not always a boon: the case of Nigeria and Angola

Ross Harvey 18 Feb 2021

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Botswana must curb diamond reliance: president

Matthew Larotonda 15 Feb 2021

Solar panels in Sahara could boost renewable energy but damage the global climate - here's why

Solar panels in Sahara could boost renewable energy but damage the global climate - here's why

Zhengyao Lu and Benjamin Smith 12 Feb 2021