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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 #AfricaTechFestival2024Lindsey Schutters

Fiyinfolu Okedare is director at Forvis Mazars in Nigeria

Big benefits of investing in Africa's upstream sector

By Fiyinfolu Okedare 6 Nov 2024

Gwede Mantashe delivered the opening keynote of the Ministerial Symposium at AOW

#AOW2024: Energy ministers kick off oil conference behind closed doors

7 Oct 2024

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Shell 2021 oil spills in Nigeria double in volume

Shell 2021 oil spills in Nigeria double in volume

6 Apr 2022

Clean energy transition must be fast and fair, IPCC scientists say

Clean energy transition must be fast and fair, IPCC scientists say

Laurie Goering 5 Apr 2022

Dangote to complete Nigerian oil refinery in Q4 - executive

Dangote to complete Nigerian oil refinery in Q4 - executive

Camillus Eboh 4 Apr 2022

SA strikes deal to buy gas from Mozambique

SA strikes deal to buy gas from Mozambique

4 Apr 2022

Planting trees can help the climate, but only if we also stop burning fossil fuels

Planting trees can help the climate, but only if we also stop burning fossil fuels

H. Damon Matthews, Amy Luers and Kirsten Zickfeld 1 Apr 2022

Tharisa acquires Karo platinum project in Zimbabwe

Tharisa acquires Karo platinum project in Zimbabwe

Helen Reid 31 Mar 2022

Why Nigeria's electricity grid collapses and how to shore it up

Why Nigeria's electricity grid collapses and how to shore it up

Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi and Ogheneruona E. Diemuodeke 30 Mar 2022

$5.7tn investment in energy transition needed per year until 2030 - Irena outlook

$5.7tn investment in energy transition needed per year until 2030 - Irena outlook

29 Mar 2022

Biofuel: How new microalgae technologies can hasten the end of our reliance on oil

Biofuel: How new microalgae technologies can hasten the end of our reliance on oil

Callum Russell 29 Mar 2022

Zambia to cap number of mining licences issued to single firms

Zambia to cap number of mining licences issued to single firms

Chris Mfula 28 Mar 2022

#BehindtheSelfie with Godfrey Marema, plant manager and MD for South Africa, Eaton

#BehindtheSelfie with Godfrey Marema, plant manager and MD for South Africa, Eaton

Sindy Peters 24 Mar 2022

Biz 'ready-to-wear' Content Features

Biz 'ready-to-wear' Content Features

Bizcommunity.com 17 Mar 2022

Anglo American reduces emissions by 10% in sea trial using biofuel, VLSFO blend

Anglo American reduces emissions by 10% in sea trial using biofuel, VLSFO blend

17 Mar 2022

How Africa can ride the green wave and lift itself out of energy poverty

How Africa can ride the green wave and lift itself out of energy poverty

Sindy Peters 16 Mar 2022

How Africa can adopt renewable energy on a massive scale and save billions along the way

How Africa can adopt renewable energy on a massive scale and save billions along the way

Kenneth Engblom 15 Mar 2022

Shell stopped from selling Nigerian assets until $2bn appeal decided

Shell stopped from selling Nigerian assets until $2bn appeal decided

Camillus Eboh 15 Mar 2022

Nigeria's fuel crisis: Smaller, more flexible refineries aren't the full answer

Nigeria's fuel crisis: Smaller, more flexible refineries aren't the full answer

Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi, Chukwumerije Okereke, Ogheneruona E. Diemuodeke 14 Mar 2022

A Boeing 737-7BD Arik Air aeroplane is seen parked on the tarmac at the local airport in Lagos, file. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye/File Photo

Domestic flights in Nigeria disrupted due to fuel shortage

Chijioke Ohuocha 11 Mar 2022

War in Ukraine is changing energy geopolitics

War in Ukraine is changing energy geopolitics

Scott L. Montgomery 11 Mar 2022

EU's Global Gateway initiative to provide access to €150bn for African infrastructure development

10 Mar 2022

Russia's nuclear power exports: Will they stand the strain of the war in Ukraine?

Russia's nuclear power exports: Will they stand the strain of the war in Ukraine?

Hartmut Winkler 7 Mar 2022

Shell, BP and ExxonMobil have done business in Russia for decades - here's why they're leaving now

Shell, BP and ExxonMobil have done business in Russia for decades - here's why they're leaving now

Yan Anthea Zhang 4 Mar 2022

Ghana mining fund to invest $60m in 2022 expansion drive

Ghana mining fund to invest $60m in 2022 expansion drive

Christian Akorlie and Cooper Inveen 3 Mar 2022

Source: Supplied. Metals like palladium are essential in automotive manufacturing. John Angerson/Alamy

Five essential commodities that will be hit by war in Ukraine

Sarah Schiffling and Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos 2 Mar 2022

#AfricaEnergyIndaba: 'Africa must define its own just energy transition' - Mantashe

#AfricaEnergyIndaba: 'Africa must define its own just energy transition' - Mantashe

1 Mar 2022

OPEC chief, African ministers defend oil and gas investments

OPEC chief, African ministers defend oil and gas investments

MacDonald Dzirutwe and Estelle Shirbon 1 Mar 2022

Congo recovers mining and oil assets from Israeli billionaire

Congo recovers mining and oil assets from Israeli billionaire

Stanis Bujakera 28 Feb 2022

De Beers returns diamond sights to Gaborone as travel opens up

De Beers returns diamond sights to Gaborone as travel opens up

25 Feb 2022

West Africa to jump-start power market with $568m power line

West Africa to jump-start power market with $568m power line

Camillus Eboh 25 Feb 2022

TotalEnergies makes large oil discovery off Namibia

TotalEnergies makes large oil discovery off Namibia

Wendell Roelf and Ron Bousso 24 Feb 2022

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Clean energy transition must be fast and fair, IPCC scientists say

Clean energy transition must be fast and fair, IPCC scientists say

Laurie Goering 5 Apr 2022

Dangote to complete Nigerian oil refinery in Q4 - executive

Dangote to complete Nigerian oil refinery in Q4 - executive

Camillus Eboh 4 Apr 2022

SA strikes deal to buy gas from Mozambique

SA strikes deal to buy gas from Mozambique

4 Apr 2022

Planting trees can help the climate, but only if we also stop burning fossil fuels

Planting trees can help the climate, but only if we also stop burning fossil fuels

H. Damon Matthews, Amy Luers and Kirsten Zickfeld 1 Apr 2022

Tharisa acquires Karo platinum project in Zimbabwe

Tharisa acquires Karo platinum project in Zimbabwe

Helen Reid 31 Mar 2022

Why Nigeria's electricity grid collapses and how to shore it up

Why Nigeria's electricity grid collapses and how to shore it up

Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi and Ogheneruona E. Diemuodeke 30 Mar 2022

$5.7tn investment in energy transition needed per year until 2030 - Irena outlook

$5.7tn investment in energy transition needed per year until 2030 - Irena outlook

29 Mar 2022

Biofuel: How new microalgae technologies can hasten the end of our reliance on oil

Biofuel: How new microalgae technologies can hasten the end of our reliance on oil

Callum Russell 29 Mar 2022

Zambia to cap number of mining licences issued to single firms

Zambia to cap number of mining licences issued to single firms

Chris Mfula 28 Mar 2022

#BehindtheSelfie with Godfrey Marema, plant manager and MD for South Africa, Eaton

#BehindtheSelfie with Godfrey Marema, plant manager and MD for South Africa, Eaton

Sindy Peters 24 Mar 2022

Biz 'ready-to-wear' Content Features

Biz 'ready-to-wear' Content Features

Bizcommunity.com 17 Mar 2022

Anglo American reduces emissions by 10% in sea trial using biofuel, VLSFO blend

Anglo American reduces emissions by 10% in sea trial using biofuel, VLSFO blend

17 Mar 2022

How Africa can ride the green wave and lift itself out of energy poverty

How Africa can ride the green wave and lift itself out of energy poverty

Sindy Peters 16 Mar 2022

How Africa can adopt renewable energy on a massive scale and save billions along the way

How Africa can adopt renewable energy on a massive scale and save billions along the way

Kenneth Engblom 15 Mar 2022

Shell stopped from selling Nigerian assets until $2bn appeal decided

Shell stopped from selling Nigerian assets until $2bn appeal decided

Camillus Eboh 15 Mar 2022

Nigeria's fuel crisis: Smaller, more flexible refineries aren't the full answer

Nigeria's fuel crisis: Smaller, more flexible refineries aren't the full answer

Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi, Chukwumerije Okereke, Ogheneruona E. Diemuodeke 14 Mar 2022

A Boeing 737-7BD Arik Air aeroplane is seen parked on the tarmac at the local airport in Lagos, file. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye/File Photo

Domestic flights in Nigeria disrupted due to fuel shortage

Chijioke Ohuocha 11 Mar 2022

War in Ukraine is changing energy geopolitics

War in Ukraine is changing energy geopolitics

Scott L. Montgomery 11 Mar 2022

EU's Global Gateway initiative to provide access to €150bn for African infrastructure development

10 Mar 2022

Russia's nuclear power exports: Will they stand the strain of the war in Ukraine?

Russia's nuclear power exports: Will they stand the strain of the war in Ukraine?

Hartmut Winkler 7 Mar 2022

Shell, BP and ExxonMobil have done business in Russia for decades - here's why they're leaving now

Shell, BP and ExxonMobil have done business in Russia for decades - here's why they're leaving now

Yan Anthea Zhang 4 Mar 2022

Ghana mining fund to invest $60m in 2022 expansion drive

Ghana mining fund to invest $60m in 2022 expansion drive

Christian Akorlie and Cooper Inveen 3 Mar 2022

Source: Supplied. Metals like palladium are essential in automotive manufacturing. John Angerson/Alamy

Five essential commodities that will be hit by war in Ukraine

Sarah Schiffling and Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos 2 Mar 2022

#AfricaEnergyIndaba: 'Africa must define its own just energy transition' - Mantashe

#AfricaEnergyIndaba: 'Africa must define its own just energy transition' - Mantashe

1 Mar 2022

OPEC chief, African ministers defend oil and gas investments

OPEC chief, African ministers defend oil and gas investments

MacDonald Dzirutwe and Estelle Shirbon 1 Mar 2022

Congo recovers mining and oil assets from Israeli billionaire

Congo recovers mining and oil assets from Israeli billionaire

Stanis Bujakera 28 Feb 2022

De Beers returns diamond sights to Gaborone as travel opens up

De Beers returns diamond sights to Gaborone as travel opens up

25 Feb 2022

West Africa to jump-start power market with $568m power line

West Africa to jump-start power market with $568m power line

Camillus Eboh 25 Feb 2022

TotalEnergies makes large oil discovery off Namibia

TotalEnergies makes large oil discovery off Namibia

Wendell Roelf and Ron Bousso 24 Feb 2022

No need for extra OPEC+ supplies amid Iran talks, Nigeria says

No need for extra OPEC+ supplies amid Iran talks, Nigeria says

22 Feb 2022

Ethiopia turns on the turbines at giant Nile hydropower plant

Ethiopia turns on the turbines at giant Nile hydropower plant

Dawit Endeshaw 21 Feb 2022

New Rio Tinto chair to weigh CEO's future amid toxic culture crisis - sources

New Rio Tinto chair to weigh CEO's future amid toxic culture crisis - sources

Clara Denina and Helen Reid 14 Feb 2022

Nigeria's Oando says it did not import substandard gasoline

Nigeria's Oando says it did not import substandard gasoline

11 Feb 2022

Namibia aims for first-ever oil output by 2026 after Shell discovery

Namibia aims for first-ever oil output by 2026 after Shell discovery

Wendell Roelf and Ron Bousso 8 Feb 2022

AIIM in bidding race for $2bn African renewables firm Lekela - sources

AIIM in bidding race for $2bn African renewables firm Lekela - sources

Emma Rumney and Isla Binnie 7 Feb 2022

Exploded Nigerian oil storage vessel had up to 60,000 barrels before incident

Exploded Nigerian oil storage vessel had up to 60,000 barrels before incident

7 Feb 2022

Oil vessel Trinity Spirit explodes off coast of Nigeria

Oil vessel Trinity Spirit explodes off coast of Nigeria

Tife Owolabi 4 Feb 2022

Source: Supplied. Senegal's Regional Express Train, co-financed by the African Development Bank, was launched in December 2021.

African Development Bank to close continent's infrastructure gap

2 Feb 2022

TotalEnergies aims to restart $20bn Mozambique LNG project in 2022

TotalEnergies aims to restart $20bn Mozambique LNG project in 2022

Emma Rumney 1 Feb 2022

Why SEZs will play a major role in Africa's mining industry future

Why SEZs will play a major role in Africa's mining industry future

Thibault Serlet 31 Jan 2022